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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wincanton - Windy Nook Wincanton (St. Peter and St. Paul) WINCANTON ( St. Peter and St. Paul), a … of Somerset, 34 miles (E.) from Taunton, and 108 (W. by S.) from London; containing 2296 inhabitants. This place, … wards; the municipal and parliamentary boundaries are co-extensive, and the number of magistrates is nine. The city …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… may be said to begin with the coming of St. Birinus in 635 and his conversion to Christianity of King Kynegils. Birinus … description of this church by Wolstan, printed in Mabillon's Acta Sanctorum, is unfortunately very obscure, but the … 'In Domino confido,' and the initials W. F. and H. B., for William Frost, Steward, and Henry Broke, Prior, and …
Survey of London
… in the manorial map in St. Pancras, Part II. In Rocque's Map of London (1746) can be seen the first building of the … to its present site at the corner of Cleveland Street and Mortimer Street. St. Pancras Female Charity School was … Windmill Street, between Charlotte Street on the west and Whitfield (then, John) Street on the east, and reaching north …
Survey of London Monograph
… 930), but since then the succession has been maintained and Windsor is now one of the six heralds in ordinary. Badge: Edward III's (Edward of Windsor) sun-burst, that is, golden sunrays … cr. 25, p.s. 28 December 1534, pat. 21 January 1535. B. Garter House, 8 May 1508, a younger s. of Sir T. …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Education There was a day school attended by 13 boys and 9 girls in 1833; it also met on Sundays. 1 A National … 13 Educ. Enq. Abstract, 145. P.R.O., ED 7/112/Burton/19; S.R.O., Staffs. C.C. deeds, C 1493; Returns relating to … 28 Jan. 1873, p. 381. P.R.O., ED 7/112/Burton/18; Bulmer & Co. Dir. Derb. 840. Plaque in entrance hall. Clark was cllr. …
A History of the County of Stafford
… middle-class houses were built along the Ashby road, and there has also been extensive 20thcentury council and … Easter Book probably of the 1550s was 84. 2 The township's population in 1801 was 309, rising to 357 by 1821, falling … May 1894; Plan of Burton (1879). 51 & 52 Vic. c. 41, s. 50(b); Census, 1891. Derby and Stafford (Burton-upon-Trent) …
A History of the County of Stafford
… of the Presbyterian Thomas Ford, who lived in Winshill and apparently preached there as well as at a conventicle in … held Sunday services in Abbot Beyne school. 17 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic church was opened in the former Winshill Institute in Mount Street in 1967. 18 L.R.O., B/V/1/75, Burton; S. Palmer, Nonconformist's Memorial (1775), …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… north of Wisbech. The Shire Drain divides it on the north and west from the sister parish of Tydd St. Mary in … Tydd, has been known since the 17th century as Lady Nunn's Old Eau, from the wife of a 14th-century Tydd landowner. 1 … use of such a name uncompounded would be most unusual; ( b) from O.E. titt, used in the transferred sense of a slight …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… when Wisbech vill was divided between the Bishop of Ely and the prior and convent. That this separation had not taken … parishes of the Isle. The tradition that St. Mary's church was the mother church of Wisbech is rendered … the March road at Guyhirn Bridge. A second-class road (B 1441) keeps to the left side of the Nene and runs from …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the outbreak of plague. In December 1584 a balance of 11 s. 6 d. was allowed to John Robynson 'collector' for his … out in the town itself. A pesthouse was set up at Barton, and, though many cases were not fatal, 47 William Skortred was co-opted one of the Ten to replace Robert Skortred, a plague …