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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Whitechurch 56 WINTERBORNE WHITECHURCH (8300) (O.S. 6 ins. ST 80 SW, ST 80 SE, SY 89 NW) The parish lies in the valley of the Winterborne brook and has an area of 3,436 acres, entirely on Chalk. Until 1933 Milton Abbas parish included the W. part of Whitechurch …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Newton NEWTON Newton is a village about 4 miles north of Wisbech, lying just west of the 'Roman Bank'. The parish, … electricity transmission line from Peterborough to King's Lynn. In 1839, out of a total of 2,771 acres of land in the … Colvile had died in 1699 leaving Susan, his only surviving child, who had married as her first husband Robert Barker. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Each is therefore partly in Norfolk and partly in the Isle of Ely. 1 In the Middle Ages they were collectively known as … through these and neighbouring parishes. Such are Popham's Eau, an early 17thcentury cut to guide the waters of the … (2) hand holding cup, (3) shield of Ely, (4) Virgin and Child and two other figures, (5) St. Edward the Confessor, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech St. Mary WISBECH ST. MARY Wisbech St. Mary, one of the larger parishes of the Isle, covers an area of some … parishes of the Isle. The tradition that St. Mary's church was the mother church of Wisbech is rendered … these primary schools were to receive 2 d. a week for each child from the appropriated charities, and 1 d. a week from …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Wiston WISTON Wiston parish 97 lies north of the South Downs, and is 4½ miles long from north to south … 1181 and 1204, were presumably his descendants. 54 William's son Henry 55 had apparently succeeded by 1210, 56 and was … (d. 1426), 14 a possibly contemporary stone effigy of a child within an ogee arch, and figures from destroyed …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1613 the borough owned an almshouse and garden on the site of Nos. 2838 Church Green north of the rectory house, … by subscriptions, loans, and a subvention from the town's Freeland estate charity, 1 together with sale of old … at work; the interest to be used for apprenticing a poor child or children. In default, the bequest was to go to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… ECONOMIC LIFE 1500 TO 1800 From the 16th century Witney's economy was dominated by its expanding cloth industry, … century its economic fortunes were closely linked to those of the woollen and cloth industries nationally, although it … Bicester, and Burford, 131 and 'spinning houses' in Milton, Wootton, Combe, and Bampton where Witney …
A History of the County of Oxford
… borough Introduction WITNEY BOROUGH Introduction The town of Witney, 1 by the river Windrush some 10 miles (16 km.) … and Curbridge were added in 1932, bringing the town's area to 1,306 a., and intakes from Curbridge (47 a.) and … between Witney and Newland and between Abingdon and nearby Milton. 65 Then as later the main way into the town from …
A History of the County of Oxford
… town, 2 and the parish church and the excavated remains of the bishop of Winchester's manor house show that there was high-quality stone building … copy in ORO, Welch XXVIII/7. PRO, IR 58/65162/22730. G. W. Child, Sanitary Condition of Oxon. (2nd Rep. to Combined …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Courts Borough Autonomy By the mid 13th century bishops of Winchester had secured wide-ranging liberties within their … and the right to deliver and return royal writs, the king's officers being forbidden entry into the bishop's manors … of 2 s. 6 d. to a widow 'towards the keeping of the child which she has to keep at the charge of the town'. 184 …