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A Dictionary of London
… Wollewharf See Wool Quay. Wolsies Gate A water gate in the roparie, in parish of All Hallows the Less, of later time … 279). "Timber Wharf" (Rocque, 1746). Site now covered by Royal Hotel (De Keyser's) Buildings, Victoria Embankment. … Court" in Rocque, 1746, but rebuilt later. Removed 1884 for the erection of the City of London Artizans' Dwellings …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was administered independently of Wolvercote from the Middle Ages; its economic organization is described below. There is no early evidence for the open fields of Wolvercote, which seem to have been … Oxon. iv. 279-82. Mun. Civ. Oxon. (O.H.S. lxxi), 233; Royal Letters addressed to Oxf. ed. O. Ogle, 195-7. Royal …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Education There appears to have been no school in the parish before the beginning of the 19th century when dame … on the 'new' or National system, closed shortly afterwards for lack of financial support, and in 1815 the three day … of Merton College, St. John's College, and the National Society, a new girls' schoolroom was built. 79 In 1833 a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… small streams on part of the north, and field boundaries for the rest. The extra-parochial area of Godstow (411 a.), … down. In the later 19th century the Foresters' Friendly Society held its annual festival on Whit Monday, with a … an early flying accident in 1912 when two officers of the Royal Flying Corps were killed near Toll Bridge. They are …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Godstow abbey had view of frankpledge in Wolvercote, and the royal bailiff had entry into the manor only by the king's … 97 In the later 18th century the churchwardens paid for the repair of bridges, a causeway, and the river banks, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and Godfrey held of him. 61 There is no further record of the under-tenancy, and d'Ivri's successors probably held in … who sold it to Edward Glynton and Nicholas Todd, acting for the city of Oxford. In 1555 the city sold it to John … i, p. 30; ii, p. 661. Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii. 191; Royal Letters Addressed to Oxford, ed. O. Ogle, 149-52; L. & …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wombleton - Woodbury Wombleton WOMBLETON, a township, in the parish of Kirkdale, union of Helmsley, wapentake of … Helmsley to Kirkby-Moorside. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans. John Stockton, in 1839, left 10 per annum for … 1846. There are places of worship for Baptists, the Society of Friends, Independents, and Wesleyans. The free …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… LL. D., was licensed as deacon and schoolmaster in the parish. 49 By 1833 20 boys and 21 girls were attending … Collins, vicar 1872-8, 52 tried in vain to raise money for a new church school at Ketley Bank where 250 children … Oliver's 82 expense aided by parliamentary and National Society grants; Oliver (d. 1867) left the school an endowment …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 298. Nonconformity, p. 301. Education, p. 302. Charities for the Poor, p. 306. Wombridge parish developed out of the … area was the centre of one of the two bailiwicks of the royal forest of Mount Gilbert (or the Wrekin); like the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… a papist or sympathizer with papists. 22 Samuel Campion, the minister ejected from Hodnet in 1660, held Sunday … 1808-56, resisted the nonconformists 25 and, save for the Wesleyan chapel at Ketley Bank, no nonconformist … and United Reformed Church. About 1764 a Wesleyan society was established at Ketley Bank by J. W. Fletcher, …