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A History of the County of Oxford
… and the excavated remains of the bishop of Winchester's manor house show that there was high-quality stone building … 69 Cooking in the kitchen was less usual, though Margaret Carter was doing so in 1595, as was Anne Pettie, one of the … the room's location in the house, though since both Carter and Pettie were widows they may have been occupying …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a. 2 r. 19 p. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 17. 10.; net income, 400; patron, the Rev. F. J. … of Wallingford, hundred of Ock, county of Berks, 4 miles (S. W.) from Abingdon; containing 580 inhabitants. It is … comprises 418 acres of land, divided from Stanton by a brook which has woody banks, and runs into the Wansbeck. The …
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 … with most of the south of Wivenhoe being the lord's demesne except for a considerable amount of copyhold land … same manorial watermill. It was probably the mill on the Brook, in the south-east of the parish on the Elmstead border …
A History of the County of Essex
… 12 to 16 jurors. Cases of animals trespassing on the lord's land, breach of the assize of ale, and of infringing the lord's rights of avesage, pannage, and larder were heard; … county council. 81 Before 1964 there was a fire station in Brook Street, a former boathouse, sited there apparently so …
A History of the County of Essex
… W. F. Tyler (1883-1927) a Band of Hope met, there were men's bible classes and prayer meetings, and the earlier … plan in 1837; there was preaching, apparently in a member's house, every Sunday afternoon and evening, and fort- … for railway nav- vies, in a barn. His successor, George Carter Needham, an Irish evangelist, rented the Swedenborgian …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Wolvercote Economic history Economic history St. Frideswide's estate at Cutteslowe was administered independently of … City Rec. 308-9, 430; Oxf. Council Acts 1583-1626, 25. H. Carter, Wolv. Mill (1957), 65. Oxf. Fnl. 31 May 1823; Oxf. … ii, pp. 574-7; P.R.O., E 179/161/8. P.R.O., E 318/824. Carter, Wolv. Mill, 33, 38. P.R.O., C 142/304. no. 47. Except …
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 … in 1831, with the assistance of Merton College, St. John's College, and the National Society, a new girls' schoolroom … min. bk. 6, pp. 29, 225. Inf. from Oxf. Educ. Cttee. H. Carter, Wolvercote Mill, 36, 57; O.R.O., MSS. Oxf. Dioc. c …
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 … 1780s Wilkinson had opened another furnace nearby, on a brook at Hollinswood. It was associated with those at …
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, and on the south by Watling Street. 90 Eastward and …
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. 1269. The western boundary partly followed Springwell brook, whose ancient course was largely obliterated by …