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A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wombridge Social and cultural activities SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES. As almost everywhere in the … rapidly became renowned for the quality of the visiting artists and for the organizers' policy of encouraging …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… to be processed to concentrate the content of potassium and to turn the raw product into POTASHES and PEARL ASH. It was less useful in its crude form, as one … such as blackthorn [Holme (2000)]; [Cox (1966, pb 1969)] and probably never confused with BOX COMB made with BOXWOOD. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the antiquities that have been found are, foundations and ruins of buildings, fragments of statues, stags' horns, … of the Lower Empire, a coin of Adrian, one of Lucilla, and a noble tessellated pavement, of which an engraving was … forming part of a range of hills which inclose a beautiful and fertile vale. Spring Park, in the parish, is a splendid …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… CHURCH. A priest was recorded at Woodchester in 896 51 and architectural evidence shows that there was a church … the 12th century. 52 The living was a rectory in 1320 53 and has remained one. The advowson descended with the manor … presentations were made by Edmund Bereford in 1352 and by William Zouche in 1395 and 1396. 55 The advowson, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woodchester Manor and other estates MANOR AND OTHER ESTATES. In the early 8th century a grant of 3 … bishop granted a life-interest in the estate to Ethelwald and his son Ahlmund. 45 The bishop no longer owned an estate …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… fathers to Northfield House, Nailsworth, in 1846, and they moved to Pud hill in 1849. The church, comprising chancel with founder's chapel and north vestry block, north tower with spire, and aisled nave with south porch, was designed in the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the road forming the parish boundary between Woodditton and Exning (Suff.). 9 Until the 19th century Woodditton's … Newmarket was separated from its parent parishes of Exning and Woodditton by stages: All Saints was created as a … the town; 11 by the 18th century it levied its own rates and was treated as a separate cure even when held by the same …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… in 1540. Presentations were made by the Crown in 1342-3 and 1370, and (under royal grant) by Mary (née de Brewes), countess of Norfolk, in 1346 and 1350. 13 From 1540 the advowson descended with the …
A History of the County of Essex
… Woodford Education and charities EDUCATION. In 1796 there was a Sunday school at … where most of the children of the poor were taught and clothed charitably. 1 By 1807, if not before, the only … schools of industry were founded, one attended by 20 boys and the other by 20 girls, and both supported by voluntary …
A History of the County of Essex
… at the northern end of Becontree hundred. Its western and northern boundaries ran through Epping Forest, part of … was amalgamated with that of Wanstead, to the south, and in 1937 the borough of Wanstead and Woodford was formed. In 1965 Wanstead and Woodford, …