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A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wombridge Growth of settlement GROWTH OF SETTLEMENT. The original endowment of St. Leonard's priory … building. 34 Slum clearance began after the 1930 Housing Act, with c. 50 houses initially listed for demolition over …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Not to be confused with WEED ASH, these are the residues of ASHES from burning WOOD. This crude form of POTASH had to be processed to concentrate the content of … higher standard. This practice was outlawed in 1512 in an act that claimed formerly worsteds had 'ben truly made, shorn …
Alumni Oxonienses
… 1600. See Woodhall. Woodarde, Nicholas s. Christopher, of Mechlen in Flanders, gent. Magdalen Hall, matric. 9 Oct., … nonconformity, chaplain to Charles II., silenced by the act of conformity; died at Inglefield, Berks, 1 Nov., 1684, … 1601, to April, 1603, pardoned by the queen, restored by parliament 21 July, 1603, K.G. 1603, captain of the isle of …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Udeburgh WOODBOROUGH (Udeburgh.) In Udeburg the book of Doomsday shows that St. Mary of Sudwell had Sok to Nortwell, seven Bov. ad Geldam. The … to Sudwell. 1 Here one Clark had under the Arch-bishop (of York) whose fee it was, one bov. ad Geldam. This concerned …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woodchester Introduction WOODCHESTER The parish of Woodchester, well known as the site of a Roman villa, 1 … Glos. R.O., D 1011/P 8. Tiltups Inn to Dudbridge Roads Act, 20 Geo. III, c. 84; cf. Glos. R.O., D 1911/1. Geol. … of Our Museum (1881), 21-2. Tiltups Inn to Dudbridge Roads Act, 20 Geo. III, c. 84; cf. Glos. R.O., D 1911/1. W. N. R. …
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 … was cultivated as open fields until inclosure under an Act of 1813. 34 The clay plateau was densely wooded when the …
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 founded it. Droard son of Cade gave it to Thetford priory (Norf.) in the early 12th … 5; Census, 1851. C.R.O., R 79/44 (uncat.), extracts from act bks. of bps. of Ely; Church Com., file 21501, …
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 … sheep, shared among twenty holdings. 55 Inclosure under an Act of 1813 56 was probably completed on the ground in 1816, … 1692 (as endorsed). Ibid. R 57/15B/6B. Wood Ditton Incl. Act, 53 Geo. III, c. 64 (Local and Personal, not printed). …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the parish was regarded as a single township. 96 View of frankpledge was exercised by the lords of the three ancient manors and by the prior of Thetford, who … 6 From the late 18th century until the Poor Law Amendment Act the parish housed paupers in a cottage on the manorial …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… and 1742. After 1920 the Stetchworth estate included much of the parish. Ditton Camoys and Ditton Valence manors … their names in the later 13th century from the surnames of the families which had owned them from c. 1200. 57 DITTON … duke of Beaufort, 88 in whom the manors were vested by an Act of 1730, 89 and who at once sold them to Charles Seymour, …