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A History of the County of Gloucester
… purchased by a Catholic, 56 was bought by Charles Hooper of Eastington (d. 1869), 57 who gave it to Simeon's trustees, … 1291 60 and £9 9 s. in 1535. 61 In 1650 the annual value of the living, which included 25 a. of glebe, was £54 62 and it had increased to £80 by 1750. 63 …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… will dated 1705, left £400 to pay three or four poor women of the parish to teach girls. By 1718 the sum had increased … purchased at Hamfallow, in Berkeley. 9 By 1818 the number of the dame schools had increased to six, some of which had … was noted. 15 By 1857 the Seys and Bridges charities were united and the old dame school buildings at South Woodchester …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woodchester Introduction WOODCHESTER The parish of Woodchester, well known as the site of a Roman villa, 1 lies on the west side of the Nailsworth valley two miles south of Stroud town. In …
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 … of Sutherland, retained it in 1987 when the benefice was united with those of Ashley with Silverley, Cheveley, and … preserved. A matching bench end was apparently taken to America by an emigrant former churchwarden in the 17th …
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 … (later Crockfords) studs before 1925. The first two were united by the 1960s. 67 South of the railway, the block …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Saxton, the rectory, and Ditton Priory. The last two were united in 1608 and all five were added to the Cheveley Park … and 1742. After 1920 the Stetchworth estate included much of the parish. Ditton Camoys and Ditton Valence manors … the latter sold it in 1608 to Sir Edward Coke 63 it was united with Ditton Priory manor. Sir Edward died in 1634, 64 …
The Environs of London
… WOODFORD Etymology. Situation. Boundaries. Quantity of land. Soil. This place was so called from the ford in the … of the King's surveyor of houses and windows, in 1762, states, that there were then 178 houses in this parish; of … about twelve months after he was beheaded. Their petition states, that they, the late King's Majesty's domestic …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Woodford WOODFORD The ancient parish of Woodford lies between Salisbury and Amesbury, on the … was a John Herford. 78 This estate seems to have been united with Heale manor by 1813. 79 ECONOMIC HISTORY. The use … endowments of the church and the cure of the parish were united with those of Wilsford, and the institutional history …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… 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 deposits, or are formed by …