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A History of the County of Shropshire
… SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES. As almost everywhere in the coalfield the alehouse was an integral and ever present … in market gardens around London would traditionally return for the wakes, some with dowries. 57 Horse and donkey races … or later. 62 By 1808 there was a brotherly or friendly society at Oakengates, perhaps that which met in the Leopard …
Alumni Oxonienses
… minister in Salisbury, and at Newbury, Berks, ejected 1662 for nonconformity, chaplain to Charles II., silenced by the act of conformity; died at Inglefield, Berks, 1 Nov., … India Company's minister at Poplar 1689, "a member of the society for reformation of marines," rector and vicar of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Mary) WOODCHESTER ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Stroud, hundred of Longtree, E. division of the … pavement, of which an engraving was exhibited to the Society of Antiquaries by Samuel Lysons, Esq., F.S.A., who … in the gift of Lord Ducie: the tithes have been commuted for 265; there is a parsonage-house, and the glebe comprises …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woodchester Introduction WOODCHESTER The parish of Woodchester, well known as the site of a Roman … having a station, situated just inside Rodborough parish, for Woodchester. The line was closed for passenger traffic in … has been recorded as an inn since 1766 when a friendly society met there. 35 A friendly society continued to meet …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Until inclosure c. 1816 open-field arable occupied the centre of the parish, between heath in the north-west and … Ditton Camoys in 1291 had 32 villeins each holding 15 a. for weekwork and other services, and free tenants and molmen … a milkman, baker, butcher, and the Newmarket Co-operative Society's van, to supplement weekly shopping trips to …
The Environs of London
… WOODFORD Etymology. Situation. Boundaries. Quantity of land. Soil. This place was so called from the ford in the wood, where Woodford-bridge now is. It lies … called Epping Forest) is in this parish. The soil is for the most part a strong loam. Land-tax. This parish pays …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Woodford WOODFORD The ancient parish of Woodford lies between Salisbury and … across the river. It appears that Upper Woodford has for long been the largest of the three villages. The houses … in Upper Woodford. 18 The Durnford and Woodford Friendly Society had in 1835 the use of a building in Durnford, 19 but …
A History of the County of Essex
… school at Woodford, apparently Anglican, where most of the children of the poor were taught and clothed charitably. … school, Sunset Avenue, originated as a National school for boys, opened in 1814. 4 This soon absorbed the boys … was opened in 1859, in association with the National Society. In the following year it was moved from temporary …
A History of the County of Essex
… parish of 2,146 a., 1 lying about 8 miles north-east of the City of London, at the northern end of Becontree hundred. … still survives in this area. A local board was formed for the parish in 1873. In 1934 the urban district was … to have closed by 1870. 136 Woodford Art and Industrial society was established in 1877 to encourage amateur skill; …
A History of the County of Essex
… evidently in existence by 1177 when it was confirmed among the possessions of the canons of Waltham Holy Cross. 1 In … a rector. But part of the income may have been reserved for the sacristy: a composition was made in 1224 between the … and with the Woodford Bridge mission of the Zion Itinerant Society which existed in 1812, when it was transferred to the …