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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wombleton - Woodbury Wombleton WOMBLETON, a township, in the parish of Kirkdale, union of Helmsley, wapentake of … It comprises by computation 1040 acres, chiefly the property of Lord Feversham: the village stands south of the road from Helmsley to …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wombridge Churches CHURCHES. During the Middle Ages St. Leonard's priory presumably served the area that became Wombridge parish. No vicarage was endowed before the Dissolution, and afterwards the benefice (if there was …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. Agriculture. By the mid 16th century what woodland remained in Wombridge and … 38 a. of wood in Wombridge, worth 10 s. an acre. 8 Among the coppices in the later 17th and 18th century were Queenswood and Wallamoor …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wombridge Growth of settlement GROWTH OF SETTLEMENT. The original endowment of St. Leonard's priory seems to have consisted of the central part of what became the parish of Wombridge. About 1135 William and Seburga of …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES. As almost everywhere in the coalfield the alehouse was an integral and ever present part of the community. There was an alehouse at Ketley Bank in 1613, …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… 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 product into POTASHES and PEARL ASH. It was less …
Alumni Oxonienses
… for nonconformity, chaplain to Charles II., silenced by the act of conformity; died at Inglefield, Berks, 1 Nov., … lecturer of St. Lawrence Jewry, London, 1641; one of the assembly of divines; rector of St. Mildred Poultry, … 1698; canon 1705, and subdean of Chichester, chaplain to the duke of Richmond. See Rawl. ii. 58. Woodford, Richard s. …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Woodborough. Udeburgh WOODBOROUGH (Udeburgh.) In Udeburg the book of Doomsday shows that St. Mary of Sudwell had Sok to Nortwell, seven Bov. ad Geldam. The land two Car. There was half a car. in demesne, and two … car. this belonged to Sudwell. 1 Here one Clark had under the Arch-bishop (of York) whose fee it was, one bov. ad …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… WOODCHESTER (11 miles W. of Cirencester) A silver spoon in the Ashmolean Museum was recovered from West Park (SO 8101) … of Germanicus and Romano-British pottery found in 1863 in the long barrow on Bown Hill, at SO 82300180, was taken to Cheltenham College Museum. 2 The alleged site 3 of the 'Roman brickyard' serving the villa …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Mary) WOODCHESTER ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Stroud, hundred of Longtree, E. division of the county of Gloucester, 2 miles (S. W.) from Stroud; … place is supposed to derive its name from its occupying the site of a Roman station, which appears to have been the …