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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 … Map 1/2,500, Cambs. XLII. 9 (1902 edn.). Inf. from Club Secretary, Mrs. MacGregor; C.R.O. 470/O 137, no. 1300. Local …
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 … 12s. 1d. The commissioners appointed to inquire into the state of ecclesiastical benefices, in 1650, found, by their …
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 … In 1600 the mill had been presented as being in a bad state of repair as a result of floods. By 1773 the mill seems …
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 … Antiq. Soc. Occ. Pubn. viii). Inf. from school secretary. St. Paul's, Woodford Green (pamphlet for official …
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 … Ago, 1. V.C.H. Essex, v. 27, 29. T. De Laune, Present State of London (1692). G. Brumell, Local Posts of London …
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 … (20 June 1911). Kelly's Dir. Essex, 1926; inf. from Church Secretary, Latchett Evangelical Church. Bapt. Handbk. 1947, … from Mr. E. E. Mead, Trustee and Elder. Inf. from Church Secretary. Worship Reg. 60747 (20 Mar. 1944). Ibid. 54637 (18 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Margaret) WOODHALL ( St. Margaret), a parish, in the union of Horncastle, S. division of the wapentake of Gartree, parts of Lindsey, county of Lincoln, 3 miles (W. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… N.W.) Woodham Walter is a parish and small village 2 m. W. of Maldon. The principal monuments are the Church and the Bell Inn. Ecclesiastical a(1). Parish Church of St. Michael (Plate p. 271) stands at the S. end of the village. The walls are of red brick with limestone …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… West Woodmancote WOODMANCOTE, a tything, in the parish of North Cerney, union of Winchcomb, hundred of Rapsgate, … worshipped, or the burial-place of Vortimer; whilst others state it to be the Woodnesbeorth of the Saxon Chronicle, and … Sir Richard was chancellor to Edward VI., and Sir Robert secretary for Ireland in the reign of Charles II. It is now …
A History of the County of Oxford
… its original market, 66 but it remained a small community of tradesmen, craftsmen, and royal servants. Service in the … other names were derived from the building crafts of mason, carpenter, thatcher, and slater, the metal crafts … acute in the 1840s, continued to be attributed to the state of the glove industry, 46 but the problem was wider: …