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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Manors and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. In the Middle Ages the manors in Woodditton were Ditton … they descended together in the male line of the Cotton family 83 until 1608, when Sir John settled his Woodditton … The tenant in 1086, Wighen, was ancestor of the de la Mare family which held 3 knights' fees in Woodditton until the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… They are situated on Boulder Clay at 220 ft. above OD and in a line orientated N.N.W.-S.S.E. Each barrow touches its … b(6) Roman building (SP 98857738), 250 m. N.E. of (5) in a similar position. A quantity of building debris … of a house and a garden, apparently built by the St. John family which bought the main manor in 1621 and owned it until …
The Environs of London
… of land. Soil. This place was so called from the ford in the wood, where Woodford-bridge now is. It lies in the … about the beginning of the present century, was in the family of Cleveland, from which it passed to that of Hannot. … order, to the memory "of the antient and knightly family of Godfrey, which flourished many years in the county …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… buildings on each side of the road at Druid's Lodge, in the extreme north-west of the parish. In 1951 the … from 1923 until his death. 25 Several members of the Hyde family, which held Heale manor in the 17th century, achieved … in 1813 when he became a bankrupt. Members of the Bowles family, however, continued to live at Heale for about ten …
A History of the County of Essex
… Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. The wealth of woodland in Woodford long determined the economic life of the village, … pannage was important. 2 Some clearances had been made in the woodland at an early date. In 1066 there was arable … Young, Agric. of Essex, 162. P. Willmott and M. Young, Family and Class in a London Suburb, 9. E.R.O., Q/SR 40/33. …
A History of the County of Essex
… Woodford Education and charities EDUCATION. In 1796 there was a Sunday school at Woodford, apparently … the only Sunday school was being held by Dissenters, but in 1801 two day schools of industry were founded, one … Rhoda and Fanny Crump assisted by other members of their family. 46 It was originally accommodated in two houses, …
A History of the County of Essex
… ran through Epping Forest, part of which still survives in this area. A local board was formed for the parish in … land on the border next to Chigwell, where a branch of his family owned land; William ad aquam, or atte Ree, was one of a family from which Ray House derived its name; Richard Gal …
A History of the County of Essex
… the greater part of the parish, is first mentioned in the charter of doubtful authenticity by which Edward the … 15 In the later 15th and early 16th centuries the Hickman family lived there. 16 In 1538, just before the Dissolution, … a private Act of Parliament. 42 The hall remained in that family until about 1801 when it was bought by John Maitland. …
A History of the County of Essex
… Woodford Religious history CHURCHES. A church was evidently in existence by 1177 when it was confirmed among the … The duchess also gave a site for the convent of the Holy Family of Bordeaux, Mornington Road, Woodford Green, which … in Essex'. 117 Much of the cost was borne by the Spicer family of Harts. During the vigorous ministry of Edward T. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Margaret) WOODHALL ( St. Margaret), a parish, in the union of Horncastle, S. division of the wapentake of … district, and the adjunct to its name from the noble family of Ferrers, to whom the lands chiefly belonged at the … Little Woodham, derives its present adjunct from the family of Mortimer, to whom it anciently belonged. The living …