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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… locality, which may be considered as a continuation of the town of Bridport, and is within the limits of the borough. … This township has sometimes been named Cartmel Church Town. To the north, not far from the shore, are some remains … skeletons have been exhumed. The church and part of the town of Cartmel ( which see) are in the township. …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Warsop, &c.) who held the moyety and a part more of the town of Allerton of the earl of Lincolne, by doing suit at … there is a kind of market or hopclub every Tuesday. The town contains about 600 inhabitants. The bridge here, like …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… St. Michael) ALNWICK ( St. Mary And St. Michael), a market town and parish, and the head of a union, in the E. division … N. division of Northumberland, of which it is the county town, 33 miles (N. by W.) from Newcastle, and 306 (N. by W.) … is preserved by a cross erected about a mile north of the town, on the spot where the Scottish monarch is supposed to …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… to aged and impotent poor who had spent their youth in the town, 8 but in 1593 the council was empowered to waive the … 16 By 1748 it had become customary for one or both of the town beadles to be granted a chamber there 17 and by 1820 the … then M.P. for Ludlow, were settled to the use of the town's poor in 1652. 19 In 1716 part of this sum was …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Almshouses Newport (Town) 32. THE TOWN ALMSHOUSES, NEWPORT These almshouses were built by … [1st ser.] ix. 1436. 5th Rep. Com. Char. pp. 41516, 428. Town almshouses min. 1836date, penes Messrs. Liddle & Heane, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… de Staunton. Alresford, New ALRESFORD, NEW, a market-town and parish, and the head of a union, in the liberty of … the market, then fallen into disuse. On May-day, 1690, the town was destroyed by fire, previously to which it was so … a school for nineteen boys, sons of poor tradesmen in the town, and in the neighbouring villages of Old Alresford, …
A History of the County of Stafford
… watering cattle in the wells in Hope in 1606 and in the town well in Stanshope in 1607. 25 In the late 1870s there …
A History of the County of Stafford
… manor. ECONOMIC HISTORY. Agriculture. An open field called Town field was mentioned in 1617. 7 It presumably lay near … 8½ a. then lay in what was called the corn field. 8 Town field was still open in 1725. 9 The common waste lay on …
A History of the County of Stafford
… is 6½ miles north-west of Ashbourne (Derb.), the nearest town. For the northern part of the ancient parish the nearest town is Buxton (Derb.), 6 miles north-west of Longnor. Leek …