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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Mary) WOODCHESTER ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Stroud, hundred of Longtree, E. division of the county of Gloucester, 2 miles … of which 670 are in wood. The living is a rectory, in the patronage of the Archbishop of Canterbury, valued in the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Woodditton WOODDITTON Woodditton lies immediately south of Newmarket, 8 a town established c. 1200 astride the road … across the boundary in the mid 19th century, and its local board of health formed in 1851 included 57 a. of Woodditton. … reestablishment of regular royal and aristocratic sporting patronage of the town in the 1660s. 20 It formed a triangle …
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 … by lapse. 17 John Egerton, earl of Ellesmere, bought the patronage from the Cheveley estate in 1920; his son John, …
The Environs of London
… WOODFORD Etymology. Situation. Boundaries. Quantity of land. Soil. This place was so called from the ford in the … free from the payment of the same, when they came to God's board, might say a Pater noster and an Ave for his soul, and … an able, godly minister, was the incumbent 34. The patronage has always been vested in the lord of the manor. …
A History of the County of Essex
… Sunday school at Woodford, apparently Anglican, where most of the children of the poor were taught and clothed … In 1880 the school was taken over on lease by the school board, which enlarged it in 1889. 12 A scheme of 1898 … 1886 and 1890 the school was taken over by the school board, but it seems to have been closed by 1906. 18 The …
A History of the County of Essex
… Introduction WOODFORD Woodford was an ancient parish of 2,146 a., 1 lying about 8 miles north-east of the City of … Forest, part of which still survives in this area. A local board was formed for the parish in 1873. In 1934 the urban … Co., which was in turn transferred to the North Thames gas board in 1949. 119 In 1924 the County of London Electric …
A History of the County of Essex
… LOCAL GOVERNMENT. During the Middle Ages the abbot of Waltham, as lord of the manor, held courts for Woodford. He took the profits … Government Act (1858) was adopted in 1873 when a local board of 9 members was set up. From 1894 Woodford was …
A History of the County of Essex
… by 1177 when it was confirmed among the possessions of the canons of Waltham Holy Cross. 1 In 1191 the Pope … openings, and by closing the west front with a chequer-board effect of window and wall. In 1911 a new parish was … the Union church opened a Sunday school in Churchfields Board school for children of the Woodford Hall estate. This …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Margaret) WOODHALL ( St. Margaret), a parish, in the union of Horncastle, S. division of the wapentake of Gartree, parts of Lindsey, county of … valued in the king's books at 6. 13. 4., and in the patronage of G. Round, Esq.: the tithes have been commuted …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… N.E.) Secular (1). Homestead Moat, near a stream N.W. of Akeman Street Station. (2). Collett Farm, W. of (1), about 3 miles W.S.W. of Quainton Church, is a house of two storeys and an attic, …