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A History of the County of Oxford
… adherents necessarily lived within the town or parish. For much of the 18th century Dissent, though strong, never … was evident in early 19th-century proposals for a National school, which, 'considering the peculiar … Congregational Churches in Berks., S. Oxon. and S. Bucks. Assoc. (1905), 270; DNB s.v. Cotton Mather, Increase Mather. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Peter) WITTENHAM, LITTLE ( St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Wallingford, hundred of Ock, county of Berks, 4 … of Exeter College, Oxford: the tithes were commuted for land in 1809. Funeral urns and other Roman antiquities … styles. Here is a place of worship for Wesleyans; also a national school supported from land purchased by the Rev. W. …
A History of the County of Essex
… Wivenhoe Manors and other estates CHURCH. The church existed by 1254 when Simon Battle was the patron. The advowson of the rectory descended with the lordship of Wivenhoe manor, … parish north-east of the Alresford road was exchanged for a slightly larger area of the south-west of Elmstead …
A History of the County of Essex
… teacher was recorded. 94 A charity school, started in 1718 for 10 boys and 5 girls, still existed in 1724. 95 Two schoolmasters were recorded in the 1760s; one, John Potter, by will proved 1763, left £2 to … overcrowded. 3 By 1839 the schools were in union with the National Society. In 1848 a new schoolhouse, built in the …
A History of the County of Essex
… Wivenhoe Charities for the poor WIVENHOE THE ancient parish of Wivenhoe, c. 3 miles … Colne, 130 m. wide with two steel floodgates, built by the National Rivers Authority, became operational in 1993. 7 …
A History of the County of Essex
… Wivenhoe Local government LOCAL GOVERNMENT From 1246 the lords of Wivenhoe manor were entitled to free warren in their … higher. 50 In the 16th century bequests were often made for relieving the poor, 51 and weekly collections are …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Andrew) WOLLASTON ( St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Chepstow, hundred of Westbury, W. division of … who, after a judicial combat at Salisbury, was executed for high treason, was lord of the principal part of this … of a president and vice-president, assisted by teachers. National schools, and a British and an infant school, are …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Education There appears to have been no school in the parish before the beginning of the 19th century when dame … 76 A Sunday school, started in 1813 on the 'new' or National system, closed shortly afterwards for lack of financial support, and in 1815 the three day …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Wolvercote Site and remains of Godstow abbey Site and remains of Godstow abbey Godstow abbey was built on an island between streams of the Thames given to the foundress c. 1133 by John of St. … was sold to J. T. Dodd. Dodd sold it in 1921 to trustees for R.W. Ffennell of Wytham Abbey, who in 1924 gave the site …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wombleton - Woodbury Wombleton WOMBLETON, a township, in the parish of Kirkdale, union of Helmsley, wapentake of … Helmsley to Kirkby-Moorside. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans. John Stockton, in 1839, left 10 per annum for … and Rev. Augustus Legge, 31 years rector of the parish. A national and an infants' school are supported by the rector, …