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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the union of Bodmin, E. division of the hundred of Pyder and of the county of Cornwall, 5 miles (W. by S.) from … The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 10, and in the gift of Sir R. R. Vyvyan, Bart.: the tithes have … of the county of Warwick, 8 miles (N. E. by E.) from Coventry; containing, with the hamlet of Hopsford, 307 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… council acknowledged the need to improve infrastructure and attract new industries if Witney was not to become … firm Smiths' of England, attracting both local employees and large numbers of incomers, began a fundamental and … in part by easy access to car factories at Oxford, Coventry, and Birmingham, opened a motor accessory plant at …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… granted to the family of Clare, who gave the manor and church to Tintern Abbey, together with several granges … division of the county of Warwick, 5 miles (E. S. E.) from Coventry; containing, with the hamlets of Brandon, Bretford, … living is a perpetual curacy, in the gift of the Bishop of Lichfield: the tithes payable to the Duke of Cleveland have …
A History of the County of Oxford
… abbey consolidated much of its demesne land in Wolvercote and St. Giles's parish into a single block of land straddling … the process: in return for land at Ailmerswell, Horestone, and Hawsland ditch in the north end of St. Giles's, Godstow … in 1558 he held land in Hanborough, Chipping Norton, and Coventry (Warws.), in most of which he was succeeded by his …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… parish. No vicarage was endowed before the Dissolution, and afterwards the benefice (if there was one) seems to have … 1854 patronage of the living was vested in the bishop of Lichfield, patron in 1982. 84 In 1853 and 1855 the living, … was then vested in the vicar of Shifnal and the bishop of Lichfield jointly. 13 The living, worth £140 in 1843, was …
Alumni Oxonienses
… graduate), said to be S.T.D.; a minister in Salisbury, and at Newbury, Berks, ejected 1662 for nonconformity, … Foster's Index Eccl. [ 30] Woodley, William s. William, of Coventry, pleb. p.p. Christ Church, matric. 20 May, 1664, … Dorset, 1673-4, and of Shrivenham, Berks, 1675, canon of Lichfield 1678, rector of St. Bartholomew, near the Royal …
A History of the County of Essex
… at the northern end of Becontree hundred. Its western and northern boundaries ran through Epping Forest, part of … was amalgamated with that of Wanstead, to the south, and in 1937 the borough of Wanstead and Woodford was formed. … Gothic revival, was a native. 154 Literary figures include Coventry Patmore, the poet, who was born at Woodford in 1823, …
A History of the County of Essex
… does not seem to have been appropriated, even temporarily, and its incumbent has always been styled a rector. But part … (15891619), later bishop successively of Bristol and of Lichfield and Coventry, was non-resident; Woodford was the first of many …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by Henry II. The borough was created within Bladon parish and its church remained a chapel of ease, although rarely … gallery between two columns, in 1683 Edward, earl of Lichfield, was given permission to clip arches to accommodate … 1769 a private gallery was built in the south arcade. 96 Lichfield's gallery may not have been built, 97 but it was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… land outside the park so that men might build hospitia, and he granted a market to the new residents. 5 The story is … Woodstock was one of Henry's principal residences before and after his association with Rosamund and indeed the town … road passed 2 miles to the north, and the Ox-ford-Coventry road 2 miles to the east. 47 After Blenheim Palace …