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The Environs of London
… WOODFORD Etymology. Situation. Boundaries. Quantity of land. Soil. This place was so called from the ford in the … wood, where Woodford-bridge now is. It lies in the hundred of Becontree, at the distance of about seven miles and a half … Master, who was instituted to this rectory in the year 1660, was a younger son of Sir William Master of Cirencester …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Woodford WOODFORD The ancient parish of Woodford lies between Salisbury and Amesbury, on the western side of the River Avon. The parish is bounded on the east by the … as 'le Court place'. 68 A new house was built between 1660 and 1690, and this building, a small rectangular house …
A History of the County of Essex
… by 1177 when it was confirmed among the possessions of the canons of Waltham Holy Cross. 1 In 1191 the Pope assigned this … Doolittle, who had been ejected from his London living in 1660, came to Woodford to escape the plague in 1665, when …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… N.W.) Woodham Walter is a parish and small village 2 m. W. of Maldon. The principal monuments are the Church and the Bell Inn. Ecclesiastical a(1). Parish Church of St. Michael (Plate p. 271) stands at the S. end of the … of 1706. Royal Arms: In naveat W. end, Stuart arms of 1660 on wood. ConditionFairly good, some decayed stonework …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Fig. 212 Woodnewton Village Map Woodnewton is a parish of 565 hectares in the Forest of Rockingham. The village lies on the N. side of Willow … is modern. Over the archway is a panel inscribed 'EC LS 1660'. The archway has two orders and a label is enriched …
A History of the County of Oxford
… survived until the 1930s. They were listed in a survey of 1279 and as 'the king's rents' in 1468-9. 48 Later the … their arrangement was partly topographical, as was that of the late 18th-century land tax assessments and the census … Bradshaw, mercer (d. 1616), Alderman Nicholas Mayott (d. 1660), and Alderman John Brotherton, ironmonger (d. 1727). In …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Church Church. The church, of which the south doorway is of the 12th century, was presumably established when the … Restoration, when he was ejected, 1 but between 1657 and 1660 Thomas Jones continued to attend the vestry as minister. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… its original market, 66 but it remained a small community of tradesmen, craftsmen, and royal servants. Service in the … other names were derived from the building crafts of mason, carpenter, thatcher, and slater, the metal crafts of smith, ironmonger, and plumber, the textile crafts of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… dame schools; it was a popular place for boarding schools, of which some took day pupils. The rector, although a keen … and in 1831 that 'scarcely any residents lacked the means of education'. 85 Continued failure to respond to national … The scholars contributing to Francis Gregory's verses in 1660 were almost all sons of neighbouring gentry and clergy, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was at Woodstock Park, which he visited regularly for love of Rosamund Clifford; he therefore provided land outside the … supported in part by other evidence, but Woodstock was one of Henry's principal residences before and after his … below, Church. [T. Widdowes], Just Devil of Woodstock (1660); Plot, Nat. Hist. Oxon. (1705), 210; Anon. Genuine …