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A History of the County of Oxford
… Wolvercote Education Education There appears to have been no school in the parish before the beginning of … Oxon. (1853). Wilb. Visit. 166; Rep. Com. on Children and Women in Agric. [4202-1], p. 334, H.C. (1868-9), xiii; … 114, pp. 344-5 (1867-8), liii; Rep. Com. on Children and Women in Agric. p. 334. O.R.O., MS. Oxf. Dioc. c 344, f. 453; …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the village stands south of the road from Helmsley to Kirkby-Moorside. There is a place of worship for … This chapelry, which is situated on the road from Barnsley to Wath-upon-Dearne, and on the Dearne and Dove canal, … of thirteen unmarried men, with another house for three women to attend them as nurses; they were endowed with an …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Communications COMMUNICATIONS. Few roads are likely to have been made before industry and settlement expanded in … was presumably a way leading north from Watling Street to Wombridge priory, perhaps on the line of the later Hadley … the Old Park line, opened in 1908 and closed in 1959. Both companies had stations in Oakengates: Oakengates Market …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Priorslee was probably coppiced; 7 in 1556 there were said to be 38 a. of wood in Wombridge, worth 10 s. an acre. 8 … church in 1847. 11 Four or five ploughteams belonged to William Charlton's Wombridge tenants in the years 1693-8; … stockholders. 70 In the later 19th and in the 20th century companies other than the Lilleshall Co. engaged in iron …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… in 1860. 51 George Collins, vicar 1872-8, 52 tried in vain to raise money for a new church school at Ketley Bank where … when they were drawn from ten miles around. In 1939 it admitted 148 evacuees from Smethwick Junior Technical College … in a former wartime nursery. 35 Forty-two children were admitted immediately but many were left waiting. 36 The …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… The original endowment of St. Leonard's priory seems to have consisted of the central part of what became the … c. 1181 may have been indicated by Henry II's confirmation to the priory of 80 a. of assarts beyond the stream then … then extended well south of Watling Street, 91 perhaps to its full eventual extent and so including the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 1849 by William Edwards (d. 1863). 32 It was sold in 1864 to the Oakengates and St. George's Gas and Water Co. Ltd., 33 … and Wrockwardine Wood Lighting Co. Ltd. supplied gas to Oakengates urban district council. 35 The company was … the 1930s. 37 In 1892 water supply in Oakengates was said to be 'as bad as it can be, . . . scanty, . . . inaccessible, …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… sope ashes; wood or soap-ashes; wood ass; wood ashes] Not to be confused with WEED ASH, these are the residues of ASHES from burning WOOD. This crude form of POTASH had to be processed to concentrate the content of potassium and to turn the raw …
Alumni Oxonienses
… college, New England, 1642 (its first graduate), said to be S.T.D.; a minister in Salisbury, and at Newbury, Berks, … 1688, aged 16, B.C.L. 1696, D.C.L. 1704; born Sept., 1671, admitted to Merchant Taylors' school 1683; canon of … secular chaplain, B.Can.L. supd. 3 June, 1524, and perhaps admitted 15 Feb., 1532-3, as Worwall. Worrall, Thomas of …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… were recorded on the manorial demesne, 9 which was leased to farmers during the 16th century. 10 The tenants on … working 16 ploughs, and a burgage at Gloucester belonged to the estate. 11 In 1297 the tenants on Woodchester manor … 36 Two seamstresses were recorded in 1879 37 and women of the parish were also employed in the convent …