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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… The ancient parish of Woodford lies between Salisbury and Amesbury, on the western side of the River Avon. The … is bounded on the east by the winding course of the river and on the west by the old turnpike road from Salisbury to … extending a little over 3 miles from north to south, and from east to west about 2 miles in the north and 1 mile …
A History of the County of Essex
… Woodford Education and charities EDUCATION. In 1796 there was a Sunday school at … where most of the children of the poor were taught and clothed charitably. 1 By 1807, if not before, the only … schools of industry were founded, one attended by 20 boys and the other by 20 girls, and both supported by voluntary …
A History of the County of Essex
… at the northern end of Becontree hundred. Its western and northern boundaries ran through Epping Forest, part of … was amalgamated with that of Wanstead, to the south, and in 1937 the borough of Wanstead and Woodford was formed. In 1965 Wanstead and Woodford, …
A History of the County of Essex
… does not seem to have been appropriated, even temporarily, and its incumbent has always been styled a rector. But part … composition was made in 1224 between the abbot of Waltham and the rector of Woodford to settle certain divisions of tithe and other matters, although no mention was then made of the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… acres. Here is a mineral spring, with baths, an hotel, and other accommodations for visiters. The water resembles … 1; bicarbonate of soda, 6; iodine, 0. 55; bromine, 8. 35; and of potash, a trace: its specific gravity is 1016. The … valued in the king's books at 13; net income, 70; patron and appropriator, the Bishop of Lincoln. The tithes were …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… in. (a)liii. N.E. (b)liv. 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. … The walls are of red brick with limestone dressings, and the roofs are tiled. The whole church, consisting of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 13. 1. 10., and in the patronage of the Crown: the tithes have been commuted for 482, and the glebe comprises 18 acres. The church is principally … union of Basingstoke, hundred of Mainsborough, Winchester and N. divisions of the county of Southampton, 8 miles (S. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… until the 1930s. They were listed in a survey of 1279 and as 'the king's rents' in 1468-9. 48 Later the corporation acquired the quitrents 49 and listed them annually with its other rents. Rentals survive for 1598, 1602, 1609-18, 1652, 1654, 1684, and for most years from 1733. 50 Until 1764 their arrangement …
A History of the County of Oxford
… but it remained a small community of tradesmen, craftsmen, and royal servants. Service in the park and household is denoted by 13th-century surnames 67 such as … 16th century. Weavers, some fairly prosperous and one a German immigrant, were recorded in the 15th century, 86 and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… an early free grammar school, two small charity schools, and by the early 19th century several dame schools; it was a … for a National school, observed in 1815 that 'a religious and useful education is not neglected' and in 1831 that 'scarcely any residents lacked the means of …