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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… N.W.) Woolley is a parish about 6 m. W.N.W. of Huntingdon. The Church is the principal monument. Ecclesiastical Woolley, Parish Church … respondbases on the same side are modern. The nave extends beyond the arcades and has in the S. wall a 17th-century …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… - Woore Woolminstone WOOLMINSTONE, a tything, in the union of Chard, hundred of Crewkerne, Western division of … houses belonging to the principal officers of the yard. Beyond these is the Smithery, a spacious and lofty building, … with a portico of four columns of Portland stone. Beyond this is the Brass-foundry, erected by Vanbrugh, a …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… 12. WOOLWICH. (O.S. 6-in. London, Sheets (a)L, (b)P.) The Borough of Woolwich consists of the parishes of Woolwich, Plumstead and Eltham. The principal … a new nave replacing the old N. aisle with a new N. aisle beyond it; a modern chancel was also built with N. and S. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Woothorpe - Wootton-Wawen Woothorpe WOOTHORPE, a hamlet, in the parish of St. Martin, Stamford-Baron, union of Stamford, … its situation is a lofty sloping bank rising from a forest-like seclusion; and the landscape of mountain, meadow, … carried on, has entirely ceased, and there is now no trade beyond what is requisite for the supply of the inhabitants. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… some 70,000 acres of central Oxfordshire, bounded on the east by the river Cherwell, on the north by its tributary the Swere, … Part of the western boundary passed through the royal forest of Wychwood. The landscape varies from the flat …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Hundred Southern part Wootton Hundred (Southern Part) THE SOUTHERN part of Wootton hundred 1 covered 35,473 a. … Eynsham and Woodstock were boroughs and market towns. The area, lying partly on the limestone uplands of central … at Witney and Oxford. Many parishes lay within the royal forest of Wychwood and some, notably North Leigh, had the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Rivers village lies 6 km. south of Marlborough. 91 Besides the village, the parish contains East Wick Farm, which possibly stands on … woodland and was defined as a southern tail of Savernake forest. It remained part of the forest in 1330, when the land …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a county of itself, having exclusive jurisdiction, and the head of a union, locally in the county of Worcester, of … short distance to some of the iron-works on its banks. The Trent and Severn, or, as it is more commonly called, the … across two valleys, by extensive embankments, to a little beyond King's-Norton, where it passes through a tunnel …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Geffrey Howsman of Ammersley. Ref.110 BA1/1/25/1 (1616) To the right worshipfull [illegible] [illegible] his majesties justices of the peace for the county of Wegorn. The humble peticion of … by the [parlyers?] of Stooke Pryor [illegible] unto the Forest of Feckenham for the [ke...?] [illegible] of sheepe …