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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 … was served by a succession of parish clerks from the same family, Samuel Smith, his son Samuel, and Charles Smith. 42 … Recent benefactions by the Revd. W. L. P. Gould and his family are recorded on plaques in the church, including gifts …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woolaston Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY: Agriculture. In 1086 there was no demesne land in either Woolaston manor … and later ceased to be a separate farm. Under the Marling family new holdings were created at Slade farm, Cross farm, … to 182 a. excluding 35 a. of woodland, but the Marling family had the land replanted with trees so that in 1921 …
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
… Before the Conquest Brictric son of Algar held two hides in WOOLASTON within Twyford hundred. 6 Unlike other estates … century the manor was held by members of the Derneford family as under-tenants. About 1255 Roger de Derneford was … much later, to have been the residence of the Woodroffe family since the Civil War, 72 but although James Woodroffe …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Nonconformity NONCONFORMITY. There were no recusants in Woolaston in 1603 75 but six papists were recorded in … who did not attend church were given, only the Gwillim family can be identified as Roman Catholics with certainty, … members of the Harris and Thomas families. 79 The Harris family lived at Brockweir 80 and having property in …
A History of the County of Somerset
… of Bridgwater. The ancient parish was almost rectangular in shape measuring 3 km. from north to south and 2.5 km. from … open. NOTABLE RESIDENTS AND NATIONAL EVENTS The Hody family originated as unfree tenants at Woolavington, and … Nether Stowey through his daughter Isabel to the Chandos family. Maud de Chandos gave it to her youngest son Henry de …
A History of the County of Sussex
… The parish, with an area of 1,950 acres and a population in 1931 of 288, is some 4 miles from north to south, with an … manor is unknown, but it is then found in the hands of a family who took their name from the place. In 1192 Roger fitz … Sir John Mill, bt. 28 and the manor descended in this family until 1791, when the Rev. Sir Charles Mill sold it to …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… junction of the Chalk and the Gault Clay. Woolland occurs in Domesday Book (Vol. I, f. 78), with a recorded population … Parish Church (of unknown dedication) was entirely rebuilt in 1855 but it incorporates fittings from the previous … E. H. Bailey; (3) of John Feaver, 1788 and others of same family, oval inscription panel of white marble, with arms. In …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Woolminstone - Woore Woolminstone WOOLMINSTONE, a tything, in the union of Chard, hundred of Crewkerne, Western division … in the reign of Elizabeth were possessed by the Jennison family. Woolsington Park is a handsome seat. Woolstanwood … of Makerfield. How long the property continued in this family does not appear, but it seems to have been alienated …
The Environs of London
… Woolwich WOOLWICH. Name. THIS place in old charters is called Hulviz, Wolwiche, Wollewic, &c. I … possessed of it, though not by sale from the Boughton family. Sir Christopher Heydon was in possession of it in … held by Government under lease from the Bowater family 51, being parcel of the manor of Southall. This …