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A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woolaston Charities CHARITIES. A distribution to the poor of corn from Woolaston Grange was said to have been made from … down c. 1818 and replaced by a range of five dwellings for five poor widows, 20 which became disused in the later … The site of the alms-house was exchanged by the trustees for ½ a. land at Woolaston Common belonging to Col. P. S. …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woolaston Church CHURCH. The church of Woolaston was recorded in the foundation grant by Walter … the abbot had failed to present. William held the rectory for life, but at the next vacancy a vicar was instituted; 95 … secured judgement in 1718 against two parishioners for failing to pay great tithes, on the evidence that he had …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… EDUCATION. Margaret Clayton established a charity in 1616 for schooling four poor children of Woolaston, 98 and a master was paid out of the charity … The Sunday school had been temporarily discontinued for lack of funds in 1825, 6 but by 1833 it had been revived …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woolaston Introduction WOOLASTON WOOLASTON is a parish of scattered hamlets lying midway between Lydney and … 5 The northern boundary followed the brook at Brockweir for almost a mile and then ran eastwards along the 600-ft. … which was still heavily wooded in 1969, falls steeply for 400 ft. with streams flowing south-eastwards to the …
A History of the County of Somerset
… from a Saxon personal name, 5 lies on the northern slope of the Polden ridge near its western end. It is 6 km. … of two holding ponds built like the river to provide water for the Royal Ordnance Factory in Puriton parish. 10 The … in the centre of the village in the early 19th century, for example no. 4 Higher Road. There was a limited amount of …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Woolbeding WOOLBEDING The parish, with an area of 1,950 acres and a population in 1931 of 288, is some 4 … of Radford, at its northern end, was annexed to Linch for ecclesiastical purposes in 1886. 1 The main village lies … tributary stream forms the western boundary of the parish for about 2 miles. The northern half of the parish is largely …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… - Woore Woolminstone WOOLMINSTONE, a tything, in the union of Chard, hundred of Crewkerne, Western division of Somerset; … The parish comprises 1898 a. 1 r. 17 p.; it is celebrated for a remarkably fine vein of brick-earth, and the white … is held at Woolpit on September 16th, and a large fair for bullocks on the 18th and 19th. The living is a rectory, …
The Environs of London
… relating to its etymology. Situation. Boundaries. Quantity of land, and how occupid. Soil. Chalk-pit. Land-tax. Woolwich … gave the old market-house (where the cage now is) for the use of the poor 4. Manor. Manor of Woolwich, or … William Hussey, 1714; William Hussey, his son, Solicitor for the City of London, 1776; John Smith, Esq. (son of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… WOOTTON HUNDRED Wootton hundred covered some 70,000 acres of central Oxfordshire, bounded on the east by the river … century and later. Though there was some early inclosure for sheep farming the area was largely one of nucleated … a wide variety of building materials, to provide homes for people employed in Banbury and Oxford. The extent to …