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A History of the County of Leicestershire
… WISTOW Wistow lies seven miles south-east of Leicester in the valley of the River Sence. Since 1936 it has included … a. The history of Newton Harcourt is treated separately in this article. The parish lies for the most part on the … and was 50 in 1931. 14 Wistow Hall, which may be built on or near the site of the earlier medieval house, retains the …
Records relating to the Barony of Kendale
… manor of Meathop and Ulpha with land at Crackenthorpe in Beetham was an early feoffment by one of the lords of Beetham in the twelfth century. Henry de Bethum (125156), also named … of Henry de Midhop, was living in 1290. The Chartulary or Coucher Book of Furness Abbey records his arms as: Ermine, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… from the early 17th century, by increasing specialization in blankets and other broadcloths. 1 Thenceforth until the … the period some 3540 per cent of recorded trades in the borough were associated with the cloth industry, with … as well as more obvious rivals such as Burford, Bicester, or Abingdon (then Berks.). Even by the 1540s and 1550s, when …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Economic history: the industrial revolution in Witney c.1800-1900 THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN WITNEY, c. 18001900 During the 19th century Witney was … a tenth of the working population in 1851 were farmers or agricultural labourers, with another 3 per cent engaged in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… To 1660 A school run presumably by local clergy existed in the early or mid 14th century, when Roger of Standlake, one of a … about 1375, though his surname was probably hereditary. 2 In the early 16th century a chantry priest evidently taught …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Buildings ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDINGS 1 Building Materials In the 1640s Witney was described as a stone-built town, 2 … manorial and (possibly) town quarries were recorded in 1479. 5 The master mason Thomas of Witney, who worked at … gable to the street, perhaps of the late 15th or early 16th century. No. 49 Market Square is a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… freedom from toll, murage, and attendance at shire or hundred courts; the right to distrain and to receive fines … being forbidden entry into the bishop's manors except in connection with Crown pleas. 1 In 1284 the bishop procured excommunication against unnamed …
A History of the County of Oxford
… NONCONFORMITY The strength of Protestant Dissent in Witney, a dominant feature of the town from the late 17th … of many small cloth towns, 1 and may have had its origins in an earlier tradition of local Lollardy: in the 1520s … not all early adherents necessarily lived within the town or parish. For much of the 18th century Dissent, though …
A History of the County of Essex
… increased from 6 to 20 which might suggest incipient urban or port development, but between 1086 and 1327 Wivenhoe … apparently remained comparatively small and insignificant. In 1327 its assessment for subsidy was one of the lowest of the parishes in Lexden hundred; the lord of the manor was the only large …
A History of the County of Essex
… form an estuary, covered 1,549 a. (627 ha.). 85 Its port in the south-west corner of the parish, which served Colchester from the 16th century or earlier until the 19th, developed into a small town. Wivenhoe became an urban district in 1898, and remained so until 1974 when it became part of …