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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Woodford WOODFORD The ancient parish of Woodford lies between Salisbury and … Cal. Pat. 15557, 245. B.M. Harl. MS. 1443, f. 146. Wilts. Visitation Pedigrees (Harl. Soc. cv-cvi), 54; C.P. 25(2)/239 …
A History of the County of Essex
… Woodford Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. The wealth of woodland in Woodford long determined the economic life of the village, providing timber and some pasture, while …
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 London, at the northern end of Becontree …
A History of the County of Essex
… Woodford Local government LOCAL GOVERNMENT. During the Middle Ages the abbot of Waltham, as lord of the manor, held courts for Woodford. … The overseers sometimes paid for nurses to attend the sick or assisted the latter to enter one of the London …
A History of the County of Essex
… Woodford Manors MANORS. The manor of WOODFORD HALL, which comprised the greater part of the parish, is first mentioned in the charter of doubtful …
A History of the County of Essex
… evidently in existence by 1177 when it was confirmed among the possessions of the canons of Waltham Holy Cross. 1 In 1191 the Pope assigned this …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Margaret) WOODHALL ( St. Margaret), a parish, in the union of Horncastle, S. division of the wapentake of Gartree, parts of Lindsey, county of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1:3,348 (approx. 19 in. to 1 mile). Quitrents imposed on the town's original burgages survived until the 1930s. They were listed in a survey of 1279 and as 'the king's rents' in 1468-9. 48 Later the … their arrangement was partly topographical, as was that of the late 18th-century land tax assessments and the census …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Church Church. The church, of which the south doorway is of the 12th century, was presumably established when the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Economic history Economic history In the century after its foundation the town prospered, … its original market, 66 but it remained a small community of tradesmen, craftsmen, and royal servants. Service in the … other names were derived from the building crafts of mason, carpenter, thatcher, and slater, the metal crafts …