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A History of the County of Oxford
… probably with a group centred on the Greenwood family's manor house at Brize Norton: a priest from there tried to … 1767 ten out of twelve recusants recorded in Witney were women, including a shopkeeper, mantua-maker, publican, and tailor's wife. 6 Two or three Catholic families remained in 1802, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Somerset, 28 miles (W.) from Somerton, and 155 (W. by S.) from London; containing 2984 inhabitants. This place is … Wiveliscombe in the Cathedral of Wells, valued in the king's books at 27. 0. 10.; net income, 300. The church is a very … by John Westend in 1451, are occupied by sixteen men and women, who receive a small allowance of fuel; and at …
A History of the County of Essex
… at Wivenhoe heath was bought and the yearly rent of £2 10 s. was used to buy material for gowns. In the early 19th … the number of beneficiaries increased until 1867 when 51 women and 17 men each received an average of 3 yd. of … trustees land in Rebow Road for six almshouses for single women or widows, preferably sailors' widows. She en- dowed …
A History of the County of Essex
… third highest in Lexden hundred, 20 reflecting Wivenhoe's growth as a port whose develop- ment was linked with the … employed in dressmaking and 65 in tailoring, many of them women doing outwork for Col- chester clothing firms. … 34 Colchester Manu- facturing Co. Ltd. employed c. 25 women making clothing from 1935 until c. 1946 at its factory …
A History of the County of Essex
… a post office by 1853, probably the one which was in Queen's Road in 1887, and a sub post office at Wivenhoe Cross by … settlement. 23 The place name, Wivenhoe, meaning Wifa's ridge or spur of land, 24 suggests early Anglo-Saxon … Library facilities were provided consecutively by a Free Institute 1872-82, a Reading Club 1883-1914, and by the …
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. The …
A History of the County of Oxford
… glebe house and supported by subscriptions, including £2 2 s. from Merton College, was attended by 101 children, and in … Oxon. (1853). Wilb. Visit. 166; Rep. Com. on Children and Women in Agric. [4202-1], p. 334, H.C. (1868-9), xiii; … 114, pp. 344-5 (1867-8), liii; Rep. Com. on Children and Women in Agric. p. 334. O.R.O., MS. Oxf. Dioc. c 344, f. 453; …
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 thirteen unmarried men, with another house for three women to attend them as nurses; they were endowed with an …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Churches CHURCHES. During the Middle Ages St. Leonard's priory presumably served the area that became Wombridge … to have been simply a donative and outside the bishop's ordinary jurisdiction. 50 It was evidently in the Crown's patronage until the earlier 17th century. Probably between …
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 other inhabitants were cottagers and colliers. 12 Little is …