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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 … of woodland and plantation in the parish. 24 Mills and the Cloth Industry. A mill was recorded at Woodchester in 1086. …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woodchester Introduction WOODCHESTER The parish of Woodchester, well known as the site of a Roman villa, 1 lies on the west side of the Nailsworth … boundary follows the Nailsworth stream, on which several cloth-mills were built, and the southern boundary is formed …
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 … bounds were beaten along the frontages on the south side of Newmarket High Street. 10 Newmarket was separated from its parent parishes of Exning and Woodditton by stages: All Saints was created as …
The Environs of London
… WOODFORD Etymology. Situation. Boundaries. Quantity of land. Soil. This place was so called from the ford in the … wood, where Woodford-bridge now is. It lies in the hundred of Becontree, at the distance of about seven miles and a half from Whitechapel church. The …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Woodford WOODFORD The ancient parish of Woodford lies between Salisbury and Amesbury, on the … a clock with a domed cupola, built to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of George V in 1935; it also bears the Royal … been abandoned. In 1839 there were 6 a. of osier and withy beds. The river was well known as a trout stream; 87 in 1859 …
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 village, providing timber and some pasture, while … much occupation in the village. In 1686 there were beds for 19 guests and stabling for 31 horses. 41 In 1848, …
A History of the County of Essex
… Sunday school at Woodford, apparently Anglican, where most of the children of the poor were taught and clothed charitably. 1 By 1807, if … was being held by Dissenters, but in 1801 two day schools of industry were founded, one attended by 20 boys and the …
A History of the County of Essex
… Introduction WOODFORD Woodford was an ancient parish of 2,146 a., 1 lying about 8 miles north-east of the City of … John Roberts (Bt.). It has been extended to provide 54 beds. 129 Harts House was bought by East Ham council in 1920 … years until ward blocks were built. These now provide 100 beds. The hospital specializes in chest complaints. 130 Much …
A History of the County of Essex
… by 1177 when it was confirmed among the possessions of the canons of Waltham Holy Cross. 1 In 1191 the Pope assigned this … was hung. There is also a sanctus bell dated 1708. 51 A silver flagon and 2 silver bowls were in use in the 1680s, 52 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… SU 01 SW) Woodlands covers 2,594 acres in a broad strip of land extending from the R. Allen in the W. to the Dorset … gently, on Chalk, to a low N.-S. ridge capped by Reading Beds, about 250 ft. above O.D. Further E. the land falls and the Chalk is soon overlain by Reading Beds and London Clays which give rise to a well-wooded area, …