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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… SCHOOLS A reference in the Archdeacon's Visitation Book of 1581-3 69 to a certain Mr. Belson of Wisbech St. Peter, who had become negligent in his duties as schoolmaster, probably indicates the presence of a primary school. The continuous history of primary …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney was transformed by mechanization, the introduction of the factory system, and the emergence of large commercial family firms. 1 The blanket industry … in 1851 blanket-workers still comprised almost 19 per cent of the working population, by far the largest single group, 2 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… AND CHURCH LIFE Origins and Status Though the existence of a church within the 10th- and 11th-century estate seems … likely, the earliest unequivocal evidence is the survival of blocked, single-splayed windows of late 11th- or early 12th-century type high up in the nave …
A History of the County of Oxford
… estate at Cutteslowe was administered independently of Wolvercote from the Middle Ages; its economic organization … below. There is no early evidence for the open fields of Wolvercote, which seem to have been completely reorganized … later 14th century, when Godstow abbey consolidated much of its demesne land in Wolvercote and St. Giles's parish into …
The Environs of London
… WOODFORD Etymology. Situation. Boundaries. Quantity of land. Soil. This place was so called from the ford in the … wood, where Woodford-bridge now is. It lies in the hundred of Becontree, at the distance of about seven miles and a half from Whitechapel church. The …
A History of the County of Oxford
… dame schools; it was a popular place for boarding schools, of which some took day pupils. The rector, although a keen … and in 1831 that 'scarcely any residents lacked the means of education'. 85 Continued failure to respond to national … in educational provision for the poor. 86 The opening of an infants' school in 1840 and, belatedly, of a National …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woolaston Introduction WOOLASTON WOOLASTON is a parish of scattered hamlets lying midway between Lydney and … shape, it rises from the River Severn to the high ground of Tidenham Chase. The account printed here relates to the … to Woolaston. 3 In Ashwell Grove a clearing of 3 a. called Piccadilly formed a detached part of Tidenham until 1882. 4 …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… in God the Lord Bushopp and others her majesties justices of the peace Your lordships humble peticioner Ellioner Reeve … her, was about a moneth sithence forceiblie turned out of an out howse of Thomas Sales in Odingley wherein she had byn almost three …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… To the right worshipfull, the Kinges majesties justices of the peace, for the countie of Wigorn. The humble peticion, … are desired to examyn this petition and to order Alice Jacksons. Ref.110 BA1/1/29/29 (1617) To the right worshipfull … the countie of Worcester The humble peticion of Alice Jacksons Humbly sheweth and informeth your good worshipps …