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An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Wychingham. 1417, Thomas Artyes. Ditto. 1419, William Ham. Ditto. 1434, Hugh Leverych, by Robert Wychingham, Esq. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… name Waltham is compounded of the Saxon words Weald and Ham, signifying a residence in or near a wood. The town … WALTHAMSTOW ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union of West Ham, hundred of Becontree, S. division of Essex, 6 miles (N. … appears to be of Saxon origin, from weald, "a wood," and ham, "a dwelling;" the adjunct stowe, "a place," …
A History of the County of Essex
… parish church. 127 From 1667 their meeting was part of the Ham and Waltham Monthly Meeting, and of the Essex Quarterly …
A History of the County of Essex
… Sarah (d. 1766), founder of the charity school at West Ham, 146 is the monument at the east end of the Monoux chapel … accounts of Chingford, Leyton, Walthamstow, and West Ham, were brought up to date to 1756 ( sic) by Edward Rowe …
A History of the County of Essex
… most likely explanation of these developments, as at West Ham, 2 is forest clearance. The woodland in 1086 was equally … persons. 190 In 1921, although Walthamstow, after West Ham, had the most highly developed industry in south-west … A branch plant of A. Boake, Roberts & Co. Ltd. of West Ham, since 1966 Bush, Boake, Allen Ltd., perfumery and …
A History of the County of Essex
… growing faster than any other town of its size except East Ham. 25 By 1911, when the population was 124,580, growth was …
A History of the County of Essex
… responsibility for the poor was taken over by the West Ham poor law union. The workhouse, later called the Vestry … idle in 1831 the able-bodied men were sent to work in West Ham workhouse 54 and the women and children were given … 80 inmates. In 1836 the house was taken over by the West Ham guardians, who kept it open, with those of Woodford and …
A History of the County of Essex
… already associated with Free Methodist churches in West Ham, 196 helped to provide the present site and gave an iron … members of the former Welsh church at Stratford in West Ham, 220 built a new church in High Road, Leytonstone. 221 It …
A History of the County of Essex
… Road to Woodford. An agreement made with Leyton and West Ham in 1909 for interrunning from Chingford to Stratford …
A History of the County of Essex
… where he built the first nonconformist chapel. 3 The West Ham distiller Peter Lefevre (d. 1751) lived at Winns. 4 …