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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 … on the south side of the road. During the Second World War the factory was used by the Gloster Aircraft Co. but production of pianos was resumed after the war. 21 The firm, known as the Bentley Piano Co., continued …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woodchester Local government LOCAL GOVERNMENT. The lord of the manor had right of gallows, pillory, and tumbril in the late 13th century 39 … Woodchester, 35, quoting doc. lost during Second World War: B. & G. Par. Recs. 297 n. Poor Law Abstract, 1804, …
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 … in the 1680s, was a training stable until the First World War; on the east a wheelwright's shop was replaced before …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… inclosure c. 1816 open-field arable occupied the centre of the parish, between heath in the north-west and closes and … three principal manors had separate field systems. 96 That of Ditton Valence was apparently cultivated in three shifts in 1243 but conformed to the East Anglian pattern of inconstant names and irregular and perhaps variable sizes. …
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 … buildings, now demolished, which was used as a prisoner-of-war camp during the Second World War. 14 There are also several barns and farm buildings in …
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 … 1939 and used by the fire service during the Second World War. It was opened as a county junior school in 1946, when … Woodford Green, took place at the end of the First World War. In 1922 the school, with about 100 day boys and 15 …
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 … the 1920s and many more were built after the Second World War, 45 but in 1961 62 per cent of the houses in Wanstead and … owner-occupied. 46 Broadmead, the largest of the post-war council estates 47 was completed in 1968. The scheme …
A History of the County of Essex
… LOCAL GOVERNMENT. During the Middle Ages the abbot of Waltham, as lord of the manor, held courts for Woodford. He took the profits … ceased between 1786 and 1794, but under the pressures of war and bad harvests it became necessary to subsidize food …
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 … space vacated used as a chapel. 48 After the Second World War the north and south galleries, which excluded much light, …