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A History of the County of Essex
… in the north-east and in a small pocket south of Wivenhoe lodge in the north-west. A band of London clay is exposed … a post office by 1853, probably the one which was in Queen's Road in 1887, and a sub post office at Wivenhoe Cross by … settlement. 23 The place name, Wivenhoe, meaning Wifa's ridge or spur of land, 24 suggests early Anglo-Saxon …
A History of the County of Essex
… Nigel as a tenant of Robert Gernon. 92 After Robert Gernon's fief had escheated to the Crown, Henry I granted it to … it passed with Battleswick in Colchester to Richard Battle's daughter and coheir Margery wife of William Sutton. 98 The … laid out by W. A. Nesfield. 15 The north- east entrance lodge is of the early 19th century. Aubrey de Vere (1137-94), …
Survey of London
… Woburn Lodge LXXIIWOBURN LODGE, UPPER WOBURN PLACE Immediately south … connected by elliptical and circular vestibules. The S.E. part consisted of two rooms with embowed end walls; the … as long and contained a front room balancing that in the S.E. part, with stairs and small rooms between it and a long …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by John of St. John. The site was enlarged in 1139 by John's grant of a further piece of land in front of the church (or … probably the site across Godstow bridge on which the abbey's grange was later built. 30 At the Dissolution the site was granted to Henry VIII's physician, George Owen. 31 It was sold, with the rest of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… wapentake of Ryedale, N. riding of York, 4 miles (E. by S.) from Helmsley; containing 337 inhabitants. It comprises … WOMBOURN ( St. Benedict), a parish, in the union, and S. division of the hundred, of Seisdon, S. division of the … in the importation of coal, timber, foreign wine, spirits, porter, grocery, drapery, and ironmongery. The shipping of …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… there were said to be 38 a. of wood in Wombridge, worth 10 s. an acre. 8 Among the coppices in the later 17th and 18th … 11 Four or five ploughteams belonged to William Charlton's Wombridge tenants in the years 1693-8; most of the parish's … furnaces declined after the construction of the Old Lodge furnaces at Lilleshall in 1825; only 317 tons were made …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… OF SETTLEMENT. The original endowment of St. Leonard's priory seems to have consisted of the central part of what … on the east by a stream dividing Hadley wood from the king's wood (Wrockwardine wood), on the west by Springwell brook, … and St. George's, where School Street, Grove Street, and Lodge Road were laid out around Snowhill. 26 In the last …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… among the more notorious entertainments, and the county's last baiting was reputedly at the 1833 wake. 56 As late as … races and athletic competitions were held south of Pain's Lane in the mid to late 19th century during the wakes, 58 … Street. 65 In 1898 the 51 members of 'Earl Granville' lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (Manchester …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… (1727)]. Alternatively it could refer to a child's hobby-horse or a TOY horse, but probably not to a ROCKING … proprietor does not reveal the secrets of the ingredients [Porter (1989)], though in this case they seem all to have … ROTULA ANTHELMINTHICA. Sources: Newspapers. References: Porter (1989). Wormseed [worm-seed; wormsed; wormsead; …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… by the Inferior Oolite, with small deposits of fuller's earth and the Great Oolite on Bown hill. 4 The main route … few houses for the professional classes, including Selsley Lodge and Oakley House, 23 were built later in the 19th … converted to make cottages, one of which included a potter's workshop. South of Frogmarsh, on the lane called Convent …