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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… W. by N.) from Wallingford; containing 125 inhabitants, and comprising 869 a. 2 r. 19 p. The living is a rectory, … by an ancient intrenchment supposed to be British, and to have been afterwards occupied by the Romans, Roman … and commanding a fine view of the sea and the intermediate country. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the …
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 … ibid. SA 0484. Butler, Story of Wivenhoe, 2545, 263; Essex Country-side, xxxix, pp. 45; E.R.O., Acc. C397 (uncat.), …
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 … to the ferry. 96 Ferry House still stood at the bottom of Black Buoy Hill in 1995. 97 In the 20th century the Wivenhoe … 172-3; Railway Mag. xvii. 263. E.C.S. 2 July 1993; Country Life, 27 Apr. 1995. Butler, Story of Wivenhoe, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… between the R. Nene which forms its N.W. boundary and Bedfordshire which lies to the E. The E. part is mainly … of baked clay, perhaps kiln bars, a few worked flints and black hand-made pottery, probably of Iron Age date ( JRS, 51 … the furlongs to the N. of it were North Side Thatchway and Black Muddy Lands, to the S. Southside Thatchway and …
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 … lofty spire forms a conspicuous feature in the surrounding country. There are other incumbencies at Chesterton, …
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 … 1817, however, a National school, held in the glebe house and supported by subscriptions, including £2 2 s. from Merton College, was attended by 101 children, and in 1823 the master was sent to London for training. 78 By …
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 … Near the church are some slight remains of a priory of Black canons, founded in the reign of Henry I. by William …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… parish. No vicarage was endowed before the Dissolution, and afterwards the benefice (if there was one) seems to have been simply a donative and outside the bishop's ordinary jurisdiction. 50 It was … 23 a. in Shifnal and a 28-a. farm in Halesowen (Salop. and Worcs.) in 1843; by 1884 the latter had perhaps been …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Few roads are likely to have been made before industry and settlement expanded in the 17th century, though there was … to Shifnal, first mentioned in 1335. 70 Watling Street and the road via Priorslee to Shifnal were turnpiked in 1726. … 1975. Work to link it eastwards to the M 6 at Essington (Staffs.) was completed in 1983. 76 A network of canals and …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… founded. The firm rapidly became established as one of the country's leading wrought iron makers, its products including … important in 1916 to be one of only two outside the Black Country that were members of the Marked Bar … 1670s when Abraham Bigod, a glass maker from Amblecote (Staffs.), built a glasshouse near Snedshill. Window panes and …