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A History of the County of Essex
… bank of the river Stour, 6 miles north- west of Colchester and 8 miles south-east of Sudbury (Suff.), covered 2,322 a. … largesse money was spent in Colchester by the farm- workers' families. There was an annual Whit Monday Fair … Wormingford, an English Village, 67. Axten, 'Hist. Public Transport in the Colch. Area'. O.S. Map 1/2,500, Essex …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Mary) WORPLESDON ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Guildford, First division of the hundred of Wokeing, … with the tythings of Burgham, Perry-Hill, West-End, and Wyke, 1424 inhabitants. The parish comprises 6795 a. 3 r. 34 p., of which about 300 acres are woodland, and 1367 common or waste. The Wey and Arun navigation passes …
A History of the County of York
… Roman canon of the mass, the system of daily offices and the chanting of the schola cantorum. With Paulinus's … victory in 634, called upon the Scottish bishops for help and so brought Aidan to Lindisfarne but it is doubtful how … refined gold. Such embellishments were in accordance with general developments in the western Church. 6 There is no …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… flat limestone tableland formed by the underlying Portland and Purbeck Beds, between 350 ft. and 450 ft. above O.D., drained by three deeply cut valleys … streams flow S. to the sea. In the W. is Hill Bottom, and in the E. are Winspit and Seacombe Bottoms, both marked …
A History of the County of Sussex
… deals with the history of Worthing hamlet until c. 1800, and thereafter with that of the town as it was enlarged by … by the presence of 1,500 members of the United Building Workers Union. 46 By the late 19th century, however, the … the same in Worthing (7.33 per cent) as in the country in general. 47 By 1881 both Worthing (8.71 per cent) and Sussex …
A History of the County of Sussex
… CHURCHES. A chapel at Worthing was recorded in 1291, 73 and in 1410 was being used for mass. 74 Two chaplains, … ease until 1894 when a parish was formed out of Broadwater and St. George's parishes. 83 The benefice was called a … to the Patronage Trust of the National Protestant Church Union, 31 later merged in the Church Society, which held it …
A History of the County of Sussex
… List of maps and plans Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. Agriculture. … over 250 a. and one over 750 a. Most were given over to general horticulture, but one raised sheep and cattle; c. 800 … 75 In 1931 most of Worthing's 1,513 male agricultural workers were employed in market-gardening. 76 There was a …
A History of the County of Sussex
… in Worthing were apparently for visitors' children, and by 1811 there were one academy and two seminaries. 93 Such institutions and their … 472 in 1976. Worthing technical high school: opened in Union Place as Worthing junior technical school for building …
A History of the County of Sussex
… of the town Growth of the town. In the 18th century, and probably earlier, the hamlet of Worthing comprised the modern High, North, and Warwick streets. 34 There is some archaeological evidence … built c. 1815, 75 while on the other side of Chapel Road Union Place was laid out by 1826 to link the chapel to High …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Worthing Local government and public services LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC SERVICES … town's sanitary conditions, following a petition to the General Board of Health, was thwarted by opposition led by … to High Street in 1922. A new police station was built in Union Place near by in 1939. 36 A fire-engine was given to …