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Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… with the supposed kiln at Little Britain, noted on p. 81, S.V. Minchinhampton. (1) Roman Villa (SO 83970311), under and adjacent to a former church, now in ruins (map, p. 81, s.v. Minchinhampton), was excavated by Samuel Lysons in 17936 … include marble opus sectile. Some of the fine 'Corinian School' pavements were eventually patched, as in corridor 2, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… E. division of the county of Gloucester, 2 miles (S. W.) from Stroud; containing 908 inhabitants. This place is … to the Society of Antiquaries by Samuel Lysons, Esq., F.S.A., who published an elaborate account of these relics in … in 1665 left 500 for the erection and endowment of a free school, of which the master has an income of 57. 15. per …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… to maintain a grave and provide £2 yearly to the Sunday school and £2 to a choir and organ fund; any residue was to …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woodchester Education EDUCATION. St. Loe charity school, founded in 1699 to teach boys from Woodchester parish … The income was not fully used and a surplus of £342 3 s. 8 d. existed in 1828. 13 In 1834 a school was built by … buildings were erected and the school, called St. Dominic's, was placed on an established footing with 50 pupils. 24 …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… by the Inferior Oolite, with small deposits of fuller's earth and the Great Oolite on Bown hill. 4 The main route … earlier ones. 24 The building of a new parish church and a school in the later 19th century moved the focal point of the … converted to make cottages, one of which included a potter's workshop. South of Frogmarsh, on the lane called Convent …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… hill in 1849. The church, comprising chancel with founder's chapel and north vestry block, north tower with spire, and … Order Regular Franciscan nuns was established at Bird's Hill Farm. An orphanage was opened in 1862 and a day-school soon afterwards. In 1863 the buildings were extended …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… and Exning (Suff.). 9 Until the 19th century Woodditton's bounds were beaten along the frontages on the south side of … To the west the parish boundary partly follows the Devil's Ditch, a massive linear earthwork built probably by the … of Saxon Street south along Kirtling Road and west along School Road, and of Ditton Green north along Vicarage Lane. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 99 Each manor had a home farm in 1086. 1 Ditton Camoys's had only two ploughteams but expanded by the later 13th … or fields south-east of Ditton Green. 3 Ditton Valence's home farm, with four teams in 1086, was diminished by … and an electronics firm which briefly occupied the old school in the 1980s, 82 employment was restricted to the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 19th century 78 were superseded in 1847 by a National school built on the road between Saxon Street and Little … changes in the age- and class-structure of Woodditton's population reduced the roll from a peak of c. 160 in the … 63. P.R.O., ED 7/5, no. 133 (1848 report); Gardner's Dir. Cambs. (1851), 411; C.R.O., C/ES.55A/7. P.R.O., ED …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the early 20th century with 28 adult members and a Sunday school of 64 in 1910, and had its own resident minister in … Soham, nonconf. Isleham Church Bk. 1693-1805 (C.R.S. vi), 198. G.R.O., RG 31/2, Sudbury archdeac. nos. 665, … f. 6; cf. above, church. e.g. above, Cheveley, nonconf. R. S. Blair, Reaching the Masses (1884), 112-15 (copy in Newham …