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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ( St. Andrew), a market-town and parish, in the union of Wellington, W. division of the hundred of Kingsbury, W. division of Somerset, 28 … flour trades, are the prevailing branches of business. An act was passed in 1846 for a railway from Reading, by …
A History of the County of Essex
… by 1254 when Simon Battle was the patron. The advowson of the rectory descended with the lordship of Wivenhoe manor, the lords presenting regularly, except in … 3 and in 1890 when Robert Cantrell presented as guardian of N. C. C. Lawton, the younger, a minor. Lawton later sold …
A History of the County of Essex
… estates ECONOMIC HISTORY. Between 1066 and 1086 the number of bordarii increased from 6 to 20 which might suggest … insignificant. In 1327 its assessment for subsidy was one of the lowest of the parishes in Lexden hundred; the lord of the manor was …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… 96 SW) The parish, covering around 1145 hectares, lies S. of Wellingborough between the R. Nene which forms its N.W. … Remains. The common fields of the parish were enclosed by Act of Parliament in 1778 (VCH Northants., IV (1937), 58; NRO, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Andrew) WOLLASTON ( St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Chepstow, hundred of Westbury, W. division of the county … to erect works in the immediate vicinity of the town. An act was passed in 1845 for making a railway called the … town was constituted a borough to return two members to parliament, to be elected by the 10 householders of a …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… WOLLATON, OLAVESTON. In Olaveston (through corruption of speech now called Wollaton) there was of William Peverells … two boys, at the village, eating hasty-pudding, in the act of quarrelling over their mess, had this picture drawn. … This gentleman also before his brother's death served in Parliament for this County. He died in 1758, and was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… estate at Cutteslowe was administered independently of Wolvercote from the Middle Ages; its economic organization … the regulation of the common under the Commons Regulation Act of 1899 seem to have foundered on the opposition of the … Green (12 a.) were registered as common land under the Act of 1965; as no lord of the manor claimed ownership, the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… WOLVERCOTE, an ancient parish lying on the north-west of the city and liberty of Oxford, c. 2 ½ miles north of the … with extra-parochial places. 55 Under the Divided Parishes Act of 1882, small areas of Yarnton and Water Eaton, … its area from 1,158 a. to 1,160 a. 56 The Local Government Act of 1888 transferred c. 38 a. of Wolvercote within the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Roger d'Ivri held WOLVERCOTE in 1086, and Godfrey held of him. 61 There is no further record of the under-tenancy, and d'Ivri's successors probably held … grandfather of William Lenthall, Speaker of the Long Parliament. 77 Between 1611 and 1625 Lenthall's grandson John …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… - Woodbury Wombleton WOMBLETON, a township, in the parish of Kirkdale, union of Helmsley, wapentake of Ryedale, N. riding of York, 4 miles … the rental of 28 acres of land allotted under an inclosure act, and of a piece of meadow called the Church estate, is …