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A History of the County of Shropshire
… WOMBRIDGE, LATER OAKENGATES Communications, p. 284. Growth of Settlement, p. 285. Social and Cultural Activities, p. … for the Poor, p. 306. Wombridge parish developed out of the demesnes of the Augustinian priory of St. Leonard, … was the centre of one of the two bailiwicks of the royal forest of Mount Gilbert (or the Wrekin); like the centre of …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Nonconformity NONCONFORMITY. Wombridge. William Charlton of Wombridge (d. 1567) was reputed a papist or sympathizer … expanding population. 24 C. R. Cameron, perpetual curate of Wombridge 1808-56, resisted the nonconformists 25 and, … chapels opened on the southern (or Shifnal parish) side of Oakengates town, and the Primitives opened one in Ketley …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the alehouse was an integral and ever present part of the community. There was an alehouse at Ketley Bank in … in Oakengates. 52 In the earlier 19th century the number of public houses grew as the town expanded, and in 1846 the … wake took place in early October in 1801-6, the focus of activity being the pubs along the main street. 55 Bull …
Alumni Oxonienses
… 1600. See Woodhall. Woodarde, Nicholas s. Christopher, of Mechlen in Flanders, gent. Magdalen Hall, matric. 9 Oct., 1635, aged 18. [ 5] Woodbridge, Benjamin of Wilts, sacerd. Magdalen Hall, matric. 9 Nov., 1638, aged … 1664), B. and D.D. 14 Jan., 1672-3; canon 1672, and dean 1688, though not installed, principal of Gloucester Hall …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Mary) WOODCHESTER ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Stroud, hundred of Longtree, E. division of the county of … is a beautiful village, situated on the confines of Epping Forest, on the road from London to Newmarket; the houses are … part of the village, near the Castle inn, through the forest into the Lea Bridge road. The living is a rectory, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… history ECONOMIC HISTORY: Agriculture. The details of the estate held by Edward, sheriff of Wiltshire, in 1086 are not recorded. No teams were … and a dye-house, was owned and worked by Clutterbuck Dean (d. 1701) but by 1696 it was owned by Mary, widow of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Woodditton WOODDITTON Woodditton lies immediately south of Newmarket, 8 a town established c. 1200 astride the road … 205; cf. Dursley ( Deresleg), a wood in Rockingham forest (Northants.): Cal. Close, 1247-51, 336, 459. V.C.H. … Guide Map of Newmarket ([1958], [1963], 1967, 1970 edns.); Forest Heath District Official Street Map (1977); E. Cambs. …
The Environs of London
… WOODFORD Etymology. Situation. Boundaries. Quantity of land. Soil. This place was so called from the ford in the … part is meadow and pasture. A considerable part of the forest of Waltham (commonly called Epping Forest) is in this parish. The soil is for the most part a …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Woodford WOODFORD The ancient parish of Woodford lies between Salisbury and Amesbury, on the western side of the River Avon. The parish is bounded on the east by the … Reg. S. Osmund (Rolls Ser.), ii. 29. Sar. Dioc. Regy., Dean Chandler's Reg. f. 45. See p. 222. W.R.O., Wilts. …
A History of the County of Essex
… Woodford Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. The wealth of woodland in Woodford long determined the economic life of … the canons of Waltham of various assarts made in the forest, including 32 a. at Woodford, 4 and in 1200 the abbot … refrigerators, furniture, and sports equipment. FOREST. The whole of Woodford was within the ancient Forest …