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A History of the County of Oxford
… town, 2 and the parish church and the excavated remains of the bishop of Winchester's manor house show that there was … had a 'smoking table' in his parlour, at which he and his friends presumably sat with their pipes. 88 Parlours also … also designed houses in 1928 for the Witney Mills Housing Society, each containing three bedrooms and a small …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Courts Borough Autonomy By the mid 13th century bishops of Winchester had secured wide-ranging liberties within their … 2 the same year, however, he received royal confirmations of Forest and other rights, and most franchises seem to have … in Oxford was acquired from the British Red Cross Society in 1923 and was replaced in 1934, partly with income …
A History of the County of Oxford
… AND CHURCH LIFE Origins and Status Though the existence of a church within the 10th- and 11th-century estate seems … for church members. A Church of England Working Men's Society and a Workman's Club were set up in 1888, and Norris … in 1841, following over-optimistic advice from the Oxford Society for Promoting the Study of Gothic Architecture, cost …
A History of the County of Oxford
… nonconformity PROTESTANT NONCONFORMITY The strength of Protestant Dissent in Witney, a dominant feature of the town from the late 17th century, reflected the … Thorney Leys housing estate, west of the town. 67 Quakers (Friends) Quakerism seems not to have become established in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ( St. Andrew), a market-town and parish, in the union of Wellington, W. division of the hundred of Kingsbury, W. division of Somerset, 28 … subscription, and a grant of 500 from the Incorporated Society, for which 460 free sittings were provided. Here is a …
A History of the County of Essex
… by 1254 when Simon Battle was the patron. The advowson of the rectory descended with the lordship of Wivenhoe manor, the lords presenting regularly, except in … 3 and in 1890 when Robert Cantrell presented as guardian of N. C. C. Lawton, the younger, a minor. Lawton later sold …
A History of the County of Essex
… estates ECONOMIC HISTORY. Between 1066 and 1086 the number of bordarii increased from 6 to 20 which might suggest … farming methods, and was president of Essex Agricultural Society in 1870. At his Wivenhoe Lodge farm of 300 a., where … from his estate. 14 A Wivenhoe branch of the Amalgamated Society of Boilermakers, Iron and Steel Ship- builders was …
A History of the County of Essex
… 97 Private schools were also recorded in 1844 and 1845. 98 Of two schools for young ladies recorded in 1866, one … day school for 28 chil- dren was established in one room of a small cottage. It was supported by voluntary contri- … 3 By 1839 the schools were in union with the National Society. In 1848 a new schoolhouse, built in the Elizabethan …
A History of the County of Essex
… Wivenhoe Charities for the poor WIVENHOE THE ancient parish of Wivenhoe, c. 3 miles south-east of Colchester on the east … and accommodated meetings of the vestry, a friendly society, and the Wivenhoe Association against Housebreakers, … Reading Club 1883-1914, and by the Colchester Co-operative Society in the early 20th century. 78 A branch of Essex …
A History of the County of Essex
… at Wivenhoe, which prob- ably met in the houses of John Tylor and William Giles, licensed for Presbyterian … 86 David George Goyder, minister of the Swedenborgian Society at Ipswich, founded a small society in Wivenhoe by 1848. The New Jerusalem church in Sun …