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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Westbury Lesser estates LESSER ESTATES. Land at HEADINGHILL … stocked for Reynold Pavely when he acquired the manor of Westbury in 1173. 32 On the death of Walter Pavely in 1256 Headinghill was named …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Westbury Manors MANORS. In 1086 the king, as successor to Queen Edith, held WESTBURY. 40 It could thus later claim to be ancient demesne … formed a part. 55 The outcome of this threat is unknown. On his death in 1256 Walter Pavely was holding Westbury by …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Westbury Mills MILLS. At the time of the Domesday Survey there were six mills on the capital manor of Westbury. 62 In 1226-7 the grant of a mill, formerly …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Westbury Parish government and public services PARISH … Like many other royal manors of the Wessex kingdom, Westbury developed urban or semiurban institutions at a … distinguish between the tithing or township of Westbury on the one hand, and the borough of Westbury on the other. 12 …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Westbury Parliamentary representation PARLIAMENTARY REPRESENTATION. Westbury first sent representatives to Parliament in 1448, … could be held in fee, for lives, or 99 years, determinable on lives, or by copy of court roll, and the payment of an …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Westbury Protestant nonconformity PROTESTANT NONCONFORMITY. Westbury lies in that area along the Wiltshire-Somerset … to a barn belonging to Stephen Self, a clothier, standing on the site of the present Baptist chapel at Westbury Leigh, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Westbury Roman catholicism ROMAN CATHOLICISM. Walter Clark of Westbury Hundred was presented as a popish recusant in 1676 … West End in 1938. 27 W.R.O. Q. Sess. R. Trin. 1676, 1680, Westbury Presentments. E 377/73. W.R.O. Q. Sess. R. Trin. …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Westbury Schools SCHOOLS. 70 In 1835 there were said to be 18 schools within the ancient parish. In the town of Westbury there were an infants' school, and 5 daily schools: … 73 In 1819 24 boys attended the school, which was run on the Lancasterian system. 74 No girls' school was provided, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a hamlet, in the parish of Tysoe, union of Shipston-on-Stour, Kington division of the hundred of Kington, … stone seats. Westley WESTLEY, a township, in the parish of Westbury, union of Atcham, hundred of Ford, S. division of … between the rectors of the first and second portions of Westbury. Westley (St. Thomas Becket) WESTLEY ( St. Thomas …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (E. S. E.) from Whitwell. This parish, which is bounded on the north and west by the navigable river Derwent, … containing, with Stormore, 8 inhabitants. It lies on the north side of the river Avon, and comprises, including … of Elstub and Everley, locally in the hundred of Bradford, Westbury and N. divisions, and Trowbridge and Bradford …