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A History of the County of Oxford
… east, and almost certainly it long predated the borough's foundation. 1 The ecclesiastical parish, conterminous with … probably an error, arising possibly from the parish church's location just outside the borough boundary within Curbridge … required expensive repairs, and a new house in Station Lane was acquired to serve as the rectory. The old house …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the growing centrality of Nonconformity to the town's social and civic as well as religious life (Figs. 546). An … Anglican churches together, overall attendance at the town's five Nonconformist meeting houses remained higher, … meeting house on Marlborough (formerly Meeting House) Lane was built about 1712 on Mather's initiative, reportedly …
A History of the County of Essex
… link the main roads and the river. In 1734 they included a lane running west from The Entry to a crossing on the river … 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 …
A History of the County of Essex
… in a former school in High Street. In 1967 St. Monica's Roman Catholic church was opened off De Vere Lane. In 1995 it was served by a priest from Brightlingsea …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… Wix 99. WIX. (F.c.) (O.S. 6 in. (a)xxix. N.W. (b)xxix. N.E.) Wix is a parish 6 m. W.S.W. of Harwich. Wix Abbey is the principal monument. … at the N. and S. ends. a(5). Cottage, in Honeypot Lane, nearly 1 m. S.S.W. of (4). ConditionPoor. b(6). Bardox …
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. … Armada; also a monument to the memory of Colonel John Lane, the protector of Charles II. after the battle of …
A Dictionary of London
… of All Hallows the Less, of later time called Wolfes Lane, but now out of use (S. 42). "Wolsieslane "lay between the tenement of Sir John de … part stopped up and built on by the Chamberlain of London (S. 42). First mention: "Wolsiesgate," 1300 (Lib. Horn. fol. …
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 … Abingdon and their family; other travellers had to take a lane north-west through the meadows to cross the Thames at …
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 county of Stafford, 4 miles (S. W. by S.) …
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 of … Street to bypass Oakengates to the south. 73 At Teague's Bridge a sectional iron bridge was erected where the road …