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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wombleton - Woodbury Wombleton WOMBLETON, a township, in the parish of Kirkdale, union of Helmsley, wapentake of … There is a place of worship for Wesleyans. John Stockton, in 1839, left 10 per annum for the instruction of children. … (St. Benedict) WOMBOURN ( St. Benedict), a parish, in the union, and S. division of the hundred, of Seisdon, S. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… to the church was to be devoted to the poor of Wombridge. In the later 18th century 16 s. was paid out each year, but … had ceased. 82 W. H. Rushton's charity, established in 1890, produced an income of £6 from stock in 1975, used to … Chars. (S.C.C. 1975), 67; Cartlidge and Kidson, Hist. Priors Lee, p. xv. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the bishop's ordinary jurisdiction. 50 It was evidently in the Crown's patronage until the earlier 17th century. … was acquired by the Charltons with the impropriate tithes. In 1621 Francis Charlton still owed the Crown the 'king's … and N. S. Kidson, Short Acct. of Hist. of Par. of Priors Lee (Shifnal, 1937; copy in S.P.L.), pp. vi-vii. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… By the mid 16th century what woodland remained in Wombridge and Priorslee was probably coppiced; 7 in 1556 there were said to be 38 a. of wood in Wombridge, worth 10 s. an acre. 8 Among the coppices in …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wombridge Education EDUCATION. Wombridge. In 1693 Robert Bromhall, LL. D., was licensed as deacon and schoolmaster in the parish. 49 By 1833 20 boys and 21 girls were attending … Jnl. 21 Aug. 1875 (p. 7); Cartlidge and Kidson, Hist. Priors Lee, pp. vi, xii; Nat. Soc. file on Priorslee Nat. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Woodchester (St. Mary) WOODCHESTER ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Stroud, hundred of Longtree, E. division of … F.S.A., who published an elaborate account of these relics in 1797. The village is on an eminence forming part of a … Primitive Methodists have each a place of worship. Wood-Ditton, county of Cambridge.See Ditton, Wood. WOOD-DITTON, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… even when held by the same incumbent as Woodditton; 12 in 1747 it became formally a distinct ecclesiastical parish. … taken as the boundary of the two parishes would cut Wood Ditton into a thousand shreds and patches'. 14 In 1815 the inclosure commissioners added the detached parts …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Woodditton parish church stands by the presumed site of Ditton Valence manor house, 11 whose lords probably founded … it. Droard son of Cade gave it to Thetford priory (Norf.) in the early 12th century. 12 Thetford created a vicarage, of which it held the advowson until its dissolution in 1540. Presentations were made by the Crown in 1342-3 and …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… arable occupied the centre of the parish, between heath in the north-west and closes and woods in the south-east. The three principal manors had separate field systems. 96 That of Ditton Valence was apparently cultivated in three shifts in …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Education EDUCATION. Occasional classes taught by curates in the early 19th century 78 were superseded in 1847 by a National school built on the road between Saxon Street and Little Ditton (thenceforth School Road). 79 The building was …