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A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock sent two representatives to parliament in 1302 and two others in 1305; 86 all seem to have been residents and two were … freed Woodstock from the burden of representation 88 but in 1553 the borough again provided two M.P.s. Returns were …
A History of the County of Oxford
… The Presbyterian Thomas Whateley preached at Woodstock in the late 1660s, 55 and in 1672 Edward Miles and William Metcalfe applied for meeting-house licences. Edward Wilsden was presented in 1675 for holding meetings on Sundays, and although only …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Church CHURCH. The church of Woolaston was recorded in the foundation grant by Walter de Clare to Tintern Abbey in 1131. 91 Following a dispute with Llanthony Priory, lords … except tithes of the demesne of Alvington, and that in return the abbey should serve the chapel of Alvington. 92 …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… midway between Lydney and Chepstow. Roughly rectangular in shape, it rises from the River Severn to the high ground … the steep valley of the River Wye opposite Tintern Abbey. In 1882 the detached portion of the parish at Madgett, comprising 308 a., was transferred to Tidenham. 2 In 1935 the strip of land between the River Wye and the road …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Nonconformity NONCONFORMITY. There were no recusants in Woolaston in 1603 75 but six papists were recorded in 1676. 76 They included Charles Gwillim (d. 1724), …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Woolminstone - Woore Woolminstone WOOLMINSTONE, a tything, in the union of Chard, hundred of Crewkerne, Western division … Woolpit (St. Mary) WOOLPIT ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Stow, hundred of Thedwastry, W. division of … vein of brick-earth, and the white bricks made here are in great estimation. One of the largest horse-fairs in …
The Environs of London
… Woolwich WOOLWICH. Name. THIS place in old charters is called Hulviz, Wolwiche, Wollewic, &c. I … parish is bounded on the north by the river Thames, except in that part where it extends on the opposite side of the … and the remainder upland pasture 3. The soil, except in the marshes, is principally gravel. At the east end of the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the flat meadows and oolitic gravels of the Upper Thames in the south to the rich 'red land' of the ironstone uplands around Deddington in the north; between them is the undulating stonebrash of … R. 12314, 150. e.g. Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 664. Ministers Accts. of Earldom of Cornwall, 12967 (Camd. 3rd …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… possibly stands on the site of what was a small village in the Middle Ages. 92 The suffix in the parish's name is the surname of lords of the principal manor and was in use in the 14th century. 93 In 1300 the land between the …