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A History of the County of Oxford
… estate at Cutteslowe was administered independently of Wolvercote from the Middle Ages; its economic organization … below. There is no early evidence for the open fields of Wolvercote, which seem to have been completely reorganized … been some trees on Wolvercote Hurst. In 1502 a Wolvercote man supplied a fellow of All Souls College with nearly 600 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… WOLVERCOTE, an ancient parish lying on the north-west of the city and liberty of Oxford, c. 2 ½ miles north of the city centre, contained … of the minster church. 48 By 1556, when a Cutteslowe man requested burial at Wolvercote, 49 the area seems to have …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… (1). Holy Trinity Church, Old Wolverton, 1 mile E.N.E. of Stony Stratford, was re-built in 1815, except the two lower stages of the West Tower which are probably of the 14th century. The … of white marble classic detail, with recumbent figure of man on base, urn at the top, inscription at back and arms of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… - Woodbury Wombleton WOMBLETON, a township, in the parish of Kirkdale, union of Helmsley, wapentake of Ryedale, N. … of the cinque-port liberty of Dovor, in the union of the Isle of Thanet, locally in the hundred of Ringslow, or the Isle of Thanet, lathe of St. Augustine, E. division of Kent, …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Francis Charlton still owed the Crown the 'king's rent' of £2 6 s. 8 d. for the maintenance of a minister, 51 but before his death in 1642 he may have … in 1813, marriages in 1837, and burials in 1867. 21 The man. ct. had right of probate: above, Local Govt. P.R.O., SC …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… probably coppiced; 7 in 1556 there were said to be 38 a. of wood in Wombridge, worth 10 s. an acre. 8 Among the … coppice (82 a.) in Priorslee. 9 By 1847 only 6 a. of wood remained in Wombridge and none in Priorslee. 10 … 11 (1882 and 1902 edns.). V.C.H. Salop. ii. 82. Above, Man. and other Est.; Staffs. R.O., D.593/J/22/15 (datable …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 58 and the school opened in 1878. A continuing shortage of school places was relieved by enlargements of the board and National schools in the 1880s and 1890s and … at the Independent chapel, 99 a new master and mistress, man and wife, being appointed to teach at least 100 pupils. 1 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wombridge Growth of settlement GROWTH OF SETTLEMENT. The original endowment of St. Leonard's priory … 363-4; T.S.A.S. 2nd ser. x. 192; xi. 334-5; above, Hadley, Man. and Other Est., and Econ. Hist. (Agric.). For the name …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wombridge Local government LOCAL GOVERNMENT. Records of Wombridge court baron survive from 1697, 1708, 1711, 1717, … probate jurisdiction until 1857. 13 Priorslee was part of Shifnal manor and parish 14 and Ketley Bank part of … L.J.R.O., PC 11, in 1982. Eyton, ii. 265-83, 313-14. The man. and local govt. of Shifnal are reserved for treatment in …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… years. In 1539 James Leveson bought the reversion and fee of Abbot's leasehold lands from the Crown. 89 Leveson bought more of the priory lands at Oakengates in 1543, and in 1547, the … Cartlidge, Priory of Wombridge, 19; cf. above, Wellington, Man. and Other Est. (Apley). Shrews. Chron. 27 Sept. 1901 (p. …