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A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woodchester Manor and other estates MANOR AND OTHER ESTATES. In the early 8th century a grant of 3 cassati of wooded land at Woodchester was made to the bishop of …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Roman catholicism ROMAN CATHOLICISM. The revival of Roman Catholicism in the parish dates from the purchase of the manor by William Leigh, a convert to catholicism. … completion in 1853. Woodchester was the principal house of the order in England for some years and was later used as …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Woodditton WOODDITTON Woodditton lies immediately south of Newmarket, 8 a town established c. 1200 astride the road … bounds were beaten along the frontages on the south side of Newmarket High Street. 10 Newmarket was separated from its parent parishes of Exning and Woodditton by stages: All Saints was created as …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Woodditton parish church stands by the presumed site of Ditton Valence manor house, 11 whose lords probably founded it. Droard son of Cade gave it to Thetford priory (Norf.) in the early 12th century. 12 Thetford created a vicarage, of which it held the advowson until its dissolution in 1540. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… inclosure c. 1816 open-field arable occupied the centre of the parish, between heath in the north-west and closes and … three principal manors had separate field systems. 96 That of Ditton Valence was apparently cultivated in three shifts … bought all five manors and ten freehold and copyhold estates amounting perhaps to a further 500 a., the latter …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Woodditton Manors and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. In the Middle Ages the … and 1742. After 1920 the Stetchworth estate included much of the parish. Ditton Camoys and Ditton Valence manors … their names in the later 13th century from the surnames of the families which had owned them from c. 1200. 57 DITTON …
The Environs of London
… WOODFORD Etymology. Situation. Boundaries. Quantity of land. Soil. This place was so called from the ford in the … wood, where Woodford-bridge now is. It lies in the hundred of Becontree, at the distance of about seven miles and a half … by the inhuman and bloody rebels, which have lost their estates and livelihoods, and are now residing in and about …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Woodford WOODFORD The ancient parish of Woodford lies between Salisbury and Amesbury, on the western side of the River Avon. The parish is bounded on the east by the … passed to his son William, a banker of Salisbury, whose estates were sold up in 1813 when he became a bankrupt. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… SE) Fig. 149 Woodford-Cum-Membris Medieval settlements and estates The parish covers about 1100 hectares and is bisected … Clays between 120 m. and 135 m. above OD. On either side of the river the land rises across undulating clayland to a number of rounded hills, some of which are capped by glacial …
A History of the County of Essex
… Woodford Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. The wealth of woodland in Woodford long determined the economic life of the village, providing timber and some pasture, while restricting the amount of arable land. The Domesday survey with its estimate that …