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A History of the County of Essex
… a small town. Wivenhoe became an urban district in 1898, and remained so until 1974 when it became part of the new … were held in Wivenhoe Park grounds from 1851, and Prince Albert inspected local troops there in 1856. Soldiers camped … social centre for seamen. In 1947 it moved, with its museum, to premises on The Quay. The classes in the later …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… granted to the family of Clare, who gave the manor and church to Tintern Abbey, together with several granges … Wye the parish is bounded by a range of limestone hills, and towards the Severn by a rich vale of red marl; it is … Mark, were constituted in 1846, under the act 6th and 7th Victoria, cap. 37; and the erection of churches was commenced …
A Dictionary of London
… "lay between the tenement of Sir John de Pulteneye and the tenement of Bartholomew Denmars and was a public way to the Thames. In 17 Ed. III. complaint … Site now covered by Royal Hotel (De Keyser's) Buildings, Victoria Embankment. Wood Green Court South-east out of …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the mid 16th century what woodland remained in Wombridge and Priorslee was probably coppiced; 7 in 1556 there were … 10 s. an acre. 8 Among the coppices in the later 17th and 18th century were Queenswood and Wallamoor wood in … Between c. 1900 and c. 1909 a Chemical Works (late H. & E. Albert) made phosphate powder fertilizer next to the Basic …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… miles W. of Cirencester) A silver spoon in the Ashmolean Museum was recovered from West Park (SO 8101) in 1850. 1 A coin of Germanicus and Romano-British pottery found in 1863 in the long barrow … S.V. Minchinhampton. (1) Roman Villa (SO 83970311), under and adjacent to a former church, now in ruins (map, p. 81, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Brictric's estate at that time. 8 In 1297 50 a. of arable and small acreages of pasture and meadow were recorded on the manorial demesne, 9 which was … R.O., D 340A/E 17. Ex inf. Mr. L. F. J. Walrond, of Stroud Museum. Of the other mills on the stream adjoining …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… stream, on which several cloth-mills were built, and the southern boundary is formed by the Inch brook and ornamental ponds built on the brook by the late 18th … solid, sheet 35 (1866 edn.). H. Housman, The Story of Our Museum (1881), 21-2. Tiltups Inn to Dudbridge Roads Act, 20 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the road forming the parish boundary between Woodditton and Exning (Suff.). 9 Until the 19th century Woodditton's … Newmarket was separated from its parent parishes of Exning and Woodditton by stages: All Saints was created as a … later 19th century and the 20th the Moulton road was named Albert Street, Shagbag became Sackville Street, and the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… in 1540. Presentations were made by the Crown in 1342-3 and 1370, and (under royal grant) by Mary (née de Brewes), countess of … former churchwarden in the 17th century and survives in a museum there. 62 By the 18th century the centre of the church …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… 55 SE) Fig. 149 Woodford-Cum-Membris Medieval settlements and estates The parish covers about 1100 hectares and is bisected by the R. Cherwell, here flowing in a narrow … the W. of the parish (SP 531528; OS Record Cards; Warwick Museum). a(2) Settlement remains (SP 530513; Figs. 149 and …