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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Alvington and Lancaut consolidated, valued in the king's books at 13. 11. 5., and in the gift of the Duke of … N. division of the county of Northampton, 3 miles (S. S. E.) from Wellingborough; containing 1120 inhabitants. … exceedingly picturesque, vale of the Wear, on the north bank of the river, and near the point where it receives the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… extra-parochial areas of Godstow, Cutteslowe, King's Weir, and Pixey Mead were incorporated in the later 19th … and North Oxford. The extra-parochial areas of King's Weir (0.09 a.) and Pixey Mead (51 a.), which was then … were built, besides a canal keeper's house on the west bank of the canal. 6 Most of the older houses in both …
A History of the County of Oxford
… royal bailiff had entry into the manor only by the king's writ. The abbey also had rights of toll, pleas and … held courts until 1651 or later. 96 St. Frideswide's priory had view of frankpledge at Cutteslowe. 97 In the … an average of £74 between 1783 and 1785, and £299, c. 16 s. per head of population, in 1803. The highest expenditure …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by John of St. John. The site was enlarged in 1139 by John's grant of a further piece of land in front of the church (or … probably the site across Godstow bridge on which the abbey's grange was later built. 30 At the Dissolution the site was … site of the church. Finds of tiles in the modern river bank east of the site of the tower suggest that the buildings …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… wapentake of Ryedale, N. riding of York, 4 miles (E. by S.) from Helmsley; containing 337 inhabitants. It comprises … WOMBOURN ( St. Benedict), a parish, in the union, and S. division of the hundred, of Seisdon, S. division of the … of which embraces sand, loam, and clay. On the southern bank of the river Went, are some quarries of fine limestone, …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… of a road running south-west from Watling Street at Pain's Lane to join it at Snedshill, the limit of the improvement … Street to bypass Oakengates to the south. 73 At Teague's Bridge a sectional iron bridge was erected where the road … interchange in 1971, to the Greyhound interchange, Ketley Bank, in 1975-6, and to the Wombridge interchange north of …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… there were said to be 38 a. of wood in Wombridge, worth 10 s. an acre. 8 Among the coppices in the later 17th and 18th … 11 Four or five ploughteams belonged to William Charlton's Wombridge tenants in the years 1693-8; most of the parish's … century mining was established at Coalpit (later Ketley) Bank and probably at Snedshill. 27 By the early 1720s the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… in vain to raise money for a new church school at Ketley Bank where 250 children lacked school places in 1875, 53 when … was soon withdrawn. 56 Controversy raged over the board's intended school site at Ketley Bank, some ratepayers … 68 who served for thirty years, as did the committee's first secretary, R. L. Corbett. 69 The enrolment of 222 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… OF SETTLEMENT. The original endowment of St. Leonard's priory seems to have consisted of the central part of what … on the east by a stream dividing Hadley wood from the king's wood (Wrockwardine wood), on the west by Springwell brook, … the lord of Shifnal granted the canons the whole of his bank of the stream dividing Snedshill wood from the canons' …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… comprised Wrockwardine Wood C.P. (914 a.) and the new C.P.s of St. George's (129 a.) and Priorslee (584 a.). 56 In 1934 the U.D.'s … C.P.s of Hadley (at Trench), Wellington Rural (at Ketley Bank), and Shifnal (between Woodhouse colliery and Priorslee …