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A History of the County of Essex
… Wivenhoe Manors and other estates ECONOMIC HISTORY. Between 1066 and 1086 the number of bordarii increased from 6 to 20 which … incipient urban or port development, but between 1086 and 1327 Wivenhoe apparently remained comparatively small and …
A History of the County of Essex
… a small town. Wivenhoe became an urban district in 1898, and remained so until 1974 when it became part of the new … de Veres built a road known as The Entry, which became a public road before 1566, from the Colchester road just south … 1762, 8 inns and taverns and 4 beerhouses in 1863, and 8 public houses and 4 restaurants in 1978. 61 The Sun, the …
A History of the County of Essex
… warren in their demesne lands in Wivenhoe. 39 In the 14th and 15th centuries courts with view of frankpledge were held … The last court was held in 1898 at the Rose and Crown public house. 46 From 2 to 7 overseers and 2 or occasionally … inspector employed; vigorous attempts were made to provide public services, preparing the way for the vestry's …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… granted to the family of Clare, who gave the manor and church to Tintern Abbey, together with several granges … Wye the parish is bounded by a range of limestone hills, and towards the Severn by a rich vale of red marl; it is … the former gas-light company with the new gas company. A public subscription library was founded in 1794, which …
A Dictionary of London
… "lay between the tenement of Sir John de Pulteneye and the tenement of Bartholomew Denmars and was a public way to the Thames. In 17 Ed. III. complaint was made …
A History of the County of Oxford
… abbey consolidated much of its demesne land in Wolvercote and St. Giles's parish into a single block of land straddling … the process: in return for land at Ailmerswell, Horestone, and Hawsland ditch in the north end of St. Giles's, Godstow … gave to St. Frideswide's its land in St. Clement's parish and at Twisdelowe (40 a. in 1545) in the north-east corner of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… closed shortly afterwards for lack of financial support, and in 1815 the three day schools taught only 46 children. 77 … and 1894 to accommodate 227, the money being raised by public subscription. A new infants' schoolroom was opened … Oxon. (1895); Return of Income and Expenditure for every Public Elem. Sch. 1875-6 [C. 1882], pp. 216-17, H.C. (1877), …
A History of the County of Oxford
… an ancient parish lying on the north-west of the city and liberty of Oxford, c. 2 ½ miles north of the city centre, … end of the north wall. From 1764 to 1786 the house was a public house, the Crown, later the Cow; in the early 19th … occupied as a private house. 12 Two of the surviving public houses, the White Hart and the Red Lion, facing the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… WOMBOURN ( St. Benedict), a parish, in the union, and S. division of the hundred, of Seisdon, S. division of … Wolverhampton; containing, with the liberties of Orton and Swindon, 1808 inhabitants, of whom 1220 are in the … about 4000 acres, of a light loamy soil, generally good, and remarkable for the production of corn and vegetables; the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the mid 16th century what woodland remained in Wombridge and Priorslee was probably coppiced; 7 in 1556 there were … 10 s. an acre. 8 Among the coppices in the later 17th and 18th century were Queenswood and Wallamoor wood in … over the blast furnaces and steel rolling mills, was in public ownership from 1951 until 1953 when the Lilleshall Co. …