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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Knt., a great collector of Suffolk antiquities, resided and was buried here. Welnetham, Little (St. Mary) WELNETHAM, … with part of the hamlet of Sicklesmere, 206 inhabitants, and an area of about 750 acres. The living is a discharged … river Mimram runs through the grounds, and falls into the Lea at Hertford. The village consists of one street, with a …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Wembdon Manors and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. Merlsuain held WEMBDON in 1066; Walter of … Kidsbury were held c. 1740 and in 1753 by the Revd. Samuel Lea and until 1803 by Mrs. Lea. 78 The RECTORY estate was …
A History of the County of Essex
… The ancient parish, containing 1,301 a., was bounded west and north by Rainham, east by Aveley, and south by the Thames. 2 The boundaries of Wennington, … Wennington and 4 hides, with the church and land 'at the lea' (perhaps in Aveley), 58 given by tsere the swarthy and …
A History of the County of Stafford
… affiliated to the Midland Association of Baptist Churches, and had a membership of 43. The burial ground attached to it was presented by George Cutler, and the mortgage on the chapel was paid off by Mrs. Benjamin … presumably the minister at the Old Meeting, and of Moses Lea (1763). 39 James Cooper, minister 1808-29, started …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… (1752). The form in th is found mainly in the 15th and 16th centuries. The city of Liverpool extends for 6 miles … eastern margin of the Mersey estuary, covering the western and part of the eastern slope of a ridge which runs from … 1207 John reacquired it, 13 giving the township of English Lea near Preston in exchange. Five days later the so-called …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… 6 in. (a)lxxiii. S.W. (b)lxxiii S.E.) West Ham is a parish and suburb of London on the left bank of the River Lea. The Church is an important monument. Ecclesiastical … near the middle of the parish. The walls are of ragstone and flint-rubble, partly faced with modern brick; the tower …
The Environs of London
… West Ham WESTHAM. Situation, and boundaries. This parish lies in the hundred of Becontree; and is bounded on the east by Eastham; on the north by Wansted and Leyton; on the west by the river Lea, which separates it from St. Leonard's Bromley, …
A History of the County of Essex
… In 1086 the manor of Ham, held jointly by Robert Gernon and Ranulph Peverel and formerly by Alestan, contained 8 hides and 30 a. 1 It … beside the Channelsea river and the other branches of the Lea above the Three Mills. 44 Osiers had been cultivated in …
A History of the County of Essex
… on the manor of (West) Ham owned jointly by Robert Gernon and Ranulph Peverel; there had been 9 in 1066. 1 All of them must have been water-mills on the Lea or its branches, and they probably included at least some of the mills …
A History of the County of Essex
… CHARITIES. 1 Charitable bequests entrusted to the vicar and churchwardens of West Ham, for the use of the … equally between the three wards (Church Street, Plaistow, and Stratford) as early as the 16th century. In each ward the … called Oxleas in High mead, West Ham, beside the river Lea, then let at 22 a year, from which 9 was to be paid for …