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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… SCHOOLS A reference in the Archdeacon's Visitation Book of 1581-3 69 to a certain Mr. Belson of Wisbech St. Peter, … after Queen Mary, and was the first of its kind in the Isle. New classrooms for handicrafts and domestic science … as well as Wisbech itself. 94 The county boundary of the Isle and Norfolk, based on the old course of the Well Stream, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… A COMMERCIAL CENTRE Wisbech is now the commercial centre of the southern marshland, and the title 'Capital of the … were larger than those practised anywhere else in the Isle, and a most rosy picture of the future of Wisbech was … of Wisbech is the most extensive of any town in the Isle, embracing as it does all the county north of a line …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Martin) WITCHAM ( St. Martin), a parish, in the hundred of South Witchford, union and Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 5 miles (W.) from Ely, on … a parish, in the hundred of South Witchford, union and Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 3 miles (W. S. W.) from …
A History of the County of Oxford
… century its economic fortunes were closely linked to those of the woollen and cloth industries nationally, although it retained the range of occupations typical of a small, prosperous market and … 10121. ORO, MSS Wills Oxon., Witney inventories. HMC De L'Isle and Dudley I, p. 298; above, manor. For Collier, PRO, E …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… WITTENHAM, LITTLE ( St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Wallingford, hundred of Ock, county of Berks, 4 miles (N. … induced by the beauty of the sea view, bounded by the Isle of Wight, built a lofty hexagonal tower of brick, which is still …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Andrew) WOLLASTON ( St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Chepstow, hundred of Westbury, W. division of the county of Gloucester, 5 miles … place, in the hundred of South Witchford, union and Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge; containing, with …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… - Woodbury Wombleton WOMBLETON, a township, in the parish of Kirkdale, union of Helmsley, wapentake of Ryedale, N. … of the cinque-port liberty of Dovor, in the union of the Isle of Thanet, locally in the hundred of Ringslow, or the Isle of Thanet, lathe of St. Augustine, E. division of Kent, …
Alumni Oxonienses
… 1600. See Woodhall. Woodarde, Nicholas s. Christopher, of Mechlen in Flanders, gent. Magdalen Hall, matric. 9 Oct., … rector of Brooke 1723, and vicar of Shalfleet, (both) isle of Wight, 1730; brother of Heighes, etc. See Foster's Index …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… MANOR AND OTHER ESTATES. In the early 8th century a grant of 3 cassati of wooded land at Woodchester was made to the … of Devon, 47 and in 1297 of her former fief, the honor of Wight. 48 In the 14th and 15th centuries it was said to be … 38, 248; the first references pre-date the grant of the Isle of Wight for life to the earl of Salisbury in 1385: Cal. …
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 in the hundred of Becontree, at the distance of about seven miles and a half … anno 1643; (collected 8s. 5d.). The town of Douglas in the Isle of Man, burnt by Turkish pirates, 1644; (collected 1l. …