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A History of the County of Shropshire
… probably coppiced; 7 in 1556 there were said to be 38 a. of wood in Wombridge, worth 10 s. an acre. 8 Among the … coppice (82 a.) in Priorslee. 9 By 1847 only 6 a. of wood remained in Wombridge and none in Priorslee. 10 … presumably once open-field land, lay 500 metres south-east of Wombridge church in 1847. 11 Four or five ploughteams …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 58 and the school opened in 1878. A continuing shortage of school places was relieved by enlargements of the board … vi, xii; Nat. Soc. file on Priorslee Nat. Sch., managers' letters, 1 Dec. 1888; 16 and 22 July 1889. e.g. Wellington … 1881. Nat. Soc. file on Priorslee Nat. Sch., managers' letters and applicn. for bldg. grant 15 Feb. 1890. Kelly's …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wombridge Growth of settlement GROWTH OF SETTLEMENT. The original endowment of St. Leonard's priory seems to have consisted of the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… years. In 1539 James Leveson bought the reversion and fee of Abbot's leasehold lands from the Crown. 89 Leveson bought more of the priory lands at Oakengates in 1543, and in 1547, the … Charlton (d. 1567), the priory's chief steward at the time of the Dissolution. 90 Thereafter the descent of the manor 91 …
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 parent parishes of Exning and Woodditton by stages: All Saints was created as …
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 … three principal manors had separate field systems. 96 That of Ditton Valence was apparently cultivated in three shifts in 1243 but conformed to the East Anglian pattern of inconstant names and irregular and perhaps variable sizes. …
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 … 58 Archbishop Stigand later held it as lessee or custodian of the abbey, and on his death in 1072 it was taken by …
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 … at Constantinople on the death of the Sultan Osman; letters from the court of the Great Mogul; some small tracts, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Woodford WOODFORD The ancient parish of Woodford lies between Salisbury and Amesbury, on the … see below, p. 226. Kelly's Dir. Wilts. (1880 and 1894). Letters relating to Netton, belonging to Maj. D. A. C. Rasch. … Regy., mid-19th-cent. MSS. relating to Woodford, including letters, memoranda, extracts from court rolls, and records of …
A History of the County of Essex
… Sunday school at Woodford, apparently Anglican, where most of the children of the poor were taught and clothed charitably. 1 By 1807, if … was being held by Dissenters, but in 1801 two day schools of industry were founded, one attended by 20 boys and the …