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A History of the County of Oxford
… royal bailiff had entry into the manor only by the king's writ. The abbey also had rights of toll, pleas and … held courts until 1651 or later. 96 St. Frideswide's priory had view of frankpledge at Cutteslowe. 97 In the … an average of £74 between 1783 and 1785, and £299, c. 16 s. per head of population, in 1803. The highest expenditure …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by John of St. John. The site was enlarged in 1139 by John's grant of a further piece of land in front of the church (or abbey) gate, probably the site across Godstow bridge on which the abbey's grange was later built. 30 At the Dissolution the site was …
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 … WOMENSWOULD ( St. Margaret), a parish, in the union of Bridge, hundred of Wingham, lathe of St. Augustine, E. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Churches CHURCHES. During the Middle Ages St. Leonard's priory presumably served the area that became Wombridge … to have been simply a donative and outside the bishop's ordinary jurisdiction. 50 It was evidently in the Crown's … Market Street, on the Watling Street, and west of Harts Bridge Road, was returned to Wombridge. 83 In 1854 patronage …
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 … Street to bypass Oakengates to the south. 73 At Teague's Bridge a sectional iron bridge was erected where the road …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… was soon withdrawn. 56 Controversy raged over the board's intended school site at Ketley Bank, some ratepayers … 68 who served for thirty years, as did the committee's first secretary, R. L. Corbett. 69 The enrolment of 222 … for mature students 1969-77. 81 Wombridge National School, Bridge Street, was built in 1846, chiefly at James Oliver's …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wombridge, C. R. Cameron, apparently resisting the chapel's siting in his parish. 29 A chapel for the Primitives was … and three other rooms. In 1981, on the eve of the chapel's closure and the congregation's move to the United Reformed … on the Green. The Army met in the town hall until the Bridge Street barracks opened in 1896. The barracks were used …
Alumni Oxonienses
… Woodall, William 1600. See Woodhall. Woodarde, Nicholas s. Christopher, of Mechlen in Flanders, gent. Magdalen Hall, … New England, 1642 (its first graduate), said to be S.T.D.; a minister in Salisbury, and at Newbury, Berks, … 1578; incorporated 11 July, 1581; (2s. John, of Wright's Bridge, Essex) rector of Dennington, Suffolk, 1589-1624; …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… E. division of the county of Gloucester, 2 miles (S. W.) from Stroud; containing 908 inhabitants. This place is … to the Society of Antiquaries by Samuel Lysons, Esq., F.S.A., who published an elaborate account of these relics in … so called from an ancient ford, where is now Woodford Bridge, is about three miles in length and two in breadth, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… The income was not fully used and a surplus of £342 3 s. 8 d. existed in 1828. 13 In 1834 a school was built by … buildings were erected and the school, called St. Dominic's, was placed on an established footing with 50 pupils. 24 … Glos. Colln. RF 348.2. Bd. of Educ., List 21, 1912 (H.M.S.O.), 170; 1922, 109; 1936, 125. Ex inf. the head teacher. …