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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… 12. WOOLWICH. (O.S. 6-in. London, Sheets (a)L, (b)P.) The Borough of Woolwich consists of the parishes of Woolwich, … Mary Magdalene (formerly St. Lawrence), Woolwich, stands on rising ground on the S. side of the river. The existing … oval panels, ( a) figure of Christ as the fountain of the water of life and ( b) St. Mary Magdalene anointing the feet …
The Environs of London
… and how occupid. Soil. Chalk-pit. Land-tax. Woolwich lies on the banks of the Thames, within the hundred of Blackheath, … An estate in the marshes, on the Essex side of the water, (but within this parish, and in the county of Kent,) …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Woothorpe - Wootton-Wawen Woothorpe WOOTHORPE, a hamlet, in the parish of St. Martin, Stamford-Baron, union of Stamford, … containing 157 inhabitants. The parish is situated on the road from London to Dovor, and comprises by … a pleasant site, and is embellished with a pool of water covering about an acre. The living is a discharged …
A History of the County of Oxford
… covered some 70,000 acres of central Oxfordshire, bounded on the east by the river Cherwell, on the north by its tributary … which provided good meadow land and powered the many water mills of the region. The parishes of the northern part …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Hundred Southern part Wootton Hundred (Southern Part) THE SOUTHERN part of Wootton hundred 1 covered 35,473 a. … were boroughs and market towns. The area, lying partly on the limestone uplands of central Oxfordshire, partly on … Hamstall and Pinkhill in Stanton Harcourt, Gosford, Water Eaton, and Cote in Kidlington, and the extraparochial …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Rivers village lies 6 km. south of Marlborough. 91 Besides the village, the parish contains East Wick Farm, which possibly stands on the site of what was a small village in the Middle Ages. … and at its north end was served by a pond in which the water of a stream flowing, perhaps intermittently, southwards …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a county of itself, having exclusive jurisdiction, and the head of a union, locally in the county of Worcester, of … situation near a fordable part of the river Severn, and on the confines of a thick forest, it was selected as a place … are well paved, lighted with gas, and supplied with river water by means of a steam-engine, erected on the eastern bank …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… 1600s Ellioner Reeve. Ref.110 BA1/1/16/29 (1601) To the right reverend father in God the Lord Bushopp and others … for viii pence a weeke. And was so paid by the space of on yere and more and then departed the cuntry. So the said … sore woundes and afterwardes purposinge to goe over the water towardes his fathers howse, and feelinge bloud yssue …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… 1615 Thomas Tailor. Ref.110 BA1/1/22/60 (1615) To the Kinges majesties justices of the peace of the countie of Worcester. The humble petition of … indicted before your worships for [turninge?] of a water course being but a landefludd passinge over the Kinges …