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A History of the County of Essex
… Sunday school at Woodford, apparently Anglican, where most of the children of the poor were taught and clothed charitably. 1 By 1807, if … was being held by Dissenters, but in 1801 two day schools of industry were founded, one attended by 20 boys and the …
A History of the County of Essex
… Introduction WOODFORD Woodford was an ancient parish of 2,146 a., 1 lying about 8 miles north-east of the City of London, at the northern end of Becontree hundred. Its …
A History of the County of Essex
… LOCAL GOVERNMENT. During the Middle Ages the abbot of Waltham, as lord of the manor, held courts for Woodford. … book 164179, vestry minutes 16791851, churchwardens' accounts from 1737, and overseers' accounts from 1765. They … 1657 the more wealthy residents carried out an annual audit. In 1776 the vestry clerk, who had previously served …
A History of the County of Essex
… by 1177 when it was confirmed among the possessions of the canons of Waltham Holy Cross. 1 In 1191 the Pope assigned this church, among others, to the use of the sacristy at Waltham. 2 What exactly was effected by …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… West Woodmancote WOODMANCOTE, a tything, in the parish of North Cerney, union of Winchcomb, hundred of Rapsgate, Eastern division of the county of Gloucester, 5 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… ins. aSY 78 NE, bSY 79 SE) The roughly rectangular parish of Woodsford, covering some 1,700 acres, lies on the S. side of the river Frome, 4 m. E. of Dorchester. It slopes gently N. from about 200 ft. above …
A History of the County of Oxford
… survived until the 1930s. They were listed in a survey of 1279 and as 'the king's rents' in 1468-9. 48 Later the … their arrangement was partly topographical, as was that of the late 18th-century land tax assessments and the census returns of 1841-81. 51 The descent of many sites may therefore be …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to those founded in the chantry house on the north side of the church by Thomas Croft (d. 1488). 77 In 1551 the … in 1724. 79 In 1614 it housed old men and women; a list of doles to the almshouse poor c. 1630 evidently included … £300 owed to various charities. 27 A re-examination of accounts in 1848 led to the withdrawal of charity funds from …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Church Church. The church, of which the south doorway is of the 12th century, was presumably established when the … 44 The identity of chapel and chantry property presumably accounts for the confusion of nomenclature. The known …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Development of the town Development of the town New Woodstock developed at a gate into the royal … 1830; the town's relative decline in the Victorian period accounts for the continued dominance of Georgian and Regency …