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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Hundred Chapeiry of Parson Drove CHAPELRY OF PARSON DROVE Parson Drove, originally a township and chapelry of Leverington, became a separate ecclesiastical district …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Uvell) WITHIEL ( St. Uvell), a parish, in the union of Bodmin, E. division of the hundred of Pyder and of the county of Cornwall, 5 … Witney, 4 miles in length, from the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton railway. The market is on Thursday. A market …
A History of the County of Oxford
… town, 2 and the parish church and the excavated remains of the bishop of Winchester's manor house show that there was high-quality … Street referred probably to quarries immediately west of the borough; manorial and (possibly) town quarries were …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Andrew) WOLLASTON ( St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Chepstow, hundred of Westbury, W. division of the county of Gloucester, 5 miles … is supposed to have been rebuilt by John de Wulterton. Wolverhampton (St. Peter) WOLVERHAMPTON ( St. Peter), a …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… WOLLATON, OLAVESTON. In Olaveston (through corruption of speech now called Wollaton) there was of William Peverells fee of a Mannor which defore the … in Carleton, &c. his wife was the daughter of Sir Richard Pole of Suffolk, by whom he had a son of his own name Edmund, …
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 … of the county of Stafford, 4 miles (S. W. by S.) from Wolverhampton; containing, with the liberties of Orton and …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Francis Charlton still owed the Crown the 'king's rent' of £2 6 s. 8 d. for the maintenance of a minister, 51 but before his death in 1642 he may have … 1869. 77 Additions of 1869, designed by George Bidlake of Wolverhampton, included a chancel with south transept, an …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Watling Street to Wombridge priory, perhaps on the line of the later Hadley Road. Priorslee probably grew up beside … turn was replaced by a new road to the south-west as part of the Holyhead road improvements. The first part of the new … to have broken through into the underlying Wellington- Wolverhampton railway in 1855, draining the summit level and …
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 … and 1940. 47 Iron and steel. About 1414 Thomas Ferrour, a Wolverhampton ironmonger, was robbed near Oakengates of six …
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 and National schools in the 1880s and 1890s and … Development Centre was located there from 1968 80 and Wolverhampton Day Teachers' College had an outpost there for …