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A History of the County of Essex
… Walthamstow Introduction and domestic buildings WALTHAMSTOW Growth, p. 241. Domestic … is, however, relieved by the forest and by spacious parks, sports grounds, and reservoirs. Walthamstow Municipal … a., lying mainly in the north where much of it comprised sports grounds owned by London companies. 101 Most of the …
A History of the County of Essex
… Walthamstow Roman Catholicism, Nonconformity and Judaism ROMAN CATHOLICISM. Between 1574 and 1597 the Hale family of Moons were repeatedly prosecuted … funds. Among his larger benefactions were the Wadham Lodge sports ground in Kitchener Road, vested in trustees in 1920, …
A History of the County of Essex
… comprising one hide, contained 2 tenants' ploughs and 1 on the demesne (1 in 1066). There was woodland for 300 swine, while a mill and a saltpan had been added since 1066. There were 3 … comprised 3 hides, with 1 tenants' plough (1 in 1066) and 1 on the demesne (2 in 1066). There was woodland for 150 …
A History of the County of Essex
… dormitory suburb straddling the arterial road to Southend and Colchester and forming part of the London borough of Redbridge. The … golf course adjoin Wanstead Park. They belong to Wanstead Sports Ground Ltd., which was formed in 1920 to buy them from …
A History of the County of Essex
… to have been split between his two sons, Brian FitzRalph and Jordan de Briset (or Jordan FitzRalph), the founder of … wife of Henry Foliot, Emme, wife of Reynold de Ginges, and Maud. 7 Maud's share passed to Robert Brito, who before … His family sold the rest of the park in 1920 to Wanstead Sports Ground Ltd., but still held some land in Wanstead in …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… the Plain to the isolated height of Cley Hill to the west, and forms the watershed between the valley of the Biss and Frome to the north and that of the Wylye to the south. … would not go there, and Sundays were occupied in brutal sports, fighting, and drunkenness. The ill-fame of the place …
A History of the County of Sussex
… were transferred to Horsham Rural civil parish in 1933, and in 1971 Warnham contained 1,991 ha. (4,920 a.). 46 In … Warnham apparently ceased to be used. 67 Annual athletic sports were held in the parish in 1902 and 1903. 68 In 1981 there were clubs for football and many other sports; at the same date there were a cricket ground and …
Warpsgrove
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… of Warpsgrove comprised only 335 acres. 1 In the 13th and early 14th centuries it included a relatively prosperous … houses, but population declined after the Black Death, and by 1453 it was reportedly deserted. The abandoned church … settlement comprised three recently established farmhouses and a similar number of labourers' cottages. Two farmhouses …
Calendar of Treasury Books and Papers
… disbursements for land tax, &c., on His Majesty's estates and alum works, reverted to the Crown from the late Duke of … the executors of Thomas Missing, for victualling Placentia and Annapolis Royal, 1720, July 1, to 1734, September 30, … 44. Petition to same from Sir John Eyles, High Treasurer and Keeper of the Court Leet and View of Frankpledge of the …
A Survey of London
… Watches in London Of watches in this Citie, and other Matters 1 commanded, and the cause why. Curfew Bell at 8. of the clocke commaunded … laborious watches, I will speake of our pleasures and pastimes in watching by night. Bonefiers and banqueting in …