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A History of the County of Stafford
… Winshill Economic history AGRICULTURE In 1086 there was land at Winshill for 3 ploughteams but 4 … plan accompanying memo. re common in Bretby; O.S. Map 6", Staffs. XLI. SW. (1884 edn.). V.C.H. Staffs. iv. 58; above (agric.). S.H.C. 1937, pp. 89-90, 92-3, …
A History of the County of Stafford
… There was a day school attended by 13 boys and 9 girls in 1833; it also met on Sundays. 1 A National school was … Enq. Abstract, 145. P.R.O., ED 7/112/Burton/19; S.R.O., Staffs. C.C. deeds, C 1493; Returns relating to Elementary … 145; P.R.O., HO 107/191/2; HO 107/2012; O.S. Map 6", Staffs. XLI. SW. (1884 edn.). Kelly's Dir. Staffs. (1888 and …
A History of the County of Stafford
… church Established church Although Winshill was in Derbyshire, it was part of Burton parish by the earlier … 5 The directions given here, however, are liturgical. Staffs. Advertiser, 18 Sept. 1869, p. 7; D.R.O., D. 2140 A/PI … xxiii, 1995), 21. Lond. Gaz. 21 May 1867, pp. 2920-21; Staffs. Advertiser, 18 Sept. 1869, p. 7 (giving £20,000 as …
A History of the County of Stafford
… side of the river Trent, Winshill was transformed in the mid 19th century from a secluded settlement into a … no. 31969). Ches., Derb., Hereford and Worcester and Staffs. (County Boundary) Order, 1991 (S.I. 1991, no. 311), … (1879). P.R.O., RG 9/1967. White, Dir. Derb. (1857), 346; Staffs. Advertiser, 20 Feb. 1892, p. 3. Inf. from secretary …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Winshill Manor Manor Winshill was included in Wulfric Spot's endowment of Burton abbey 1002 x 1004, 10 and in 1086 the abbey's manor there was assessed for tax on 2 … 1 Charters of Burton Abbey, ed. Sawyer, p. 55. V.C.H. Staffs. iv. 58. S.H.C. 1916, 240-1. Above, Burton, manor. …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Winshill Other churches Other churches The four people in Winshill who were presented in 1668 for not coming to church may have been followers of … D. 86/2/1; P.R.O., RG 10/2903; Plan of Burton (1879). Staffs. Advertiser, 3 Dec. 1887, p. 7. Burton Libr., D. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… This large parish 1 is of a different type from the others in Wisbech hundred. Its nucleus is an island of gravel, not … has proceeded outwards from this nucleus, resulting in an oblong area some 6 miles east to west by 4 miles north … of them attended both weekdays and Sundays, and the staffs and their salaries were on a generous scale. The staff …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Nene. It appears to have emerged from Wisbech (St. Peter) in 1109 when Wisbech vill was divided between the Bishop of … and convent. That this separation had not taken place in early times is suggested by the fact that the parish … unusually so. The largest settlement is round the church, in the north-east corner of the parish about 3 miles …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… It became indeed the main feature of Wisbech life in the later Middle Ages and was the direct ancestor of the Corporation. It is reputed to have originated in 1379, the year of the earliest surviving account. 99 Certain entries in the account, however, make it plain that the Guild had …
A History of the County of Oxford
… not to become largely a dormitory town, a recurrent theme in the second half of the 20th century. 1 The arrival in 1950 of the engineering firm Smiths' of England, … of incomers, began a fundamental and long-term shift in the town's social and economic structure. Such changes …