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A History of the County of Essex
… the manor had increased from 36 in 1066 to 63 5 s. 4 d. (or 100 according to another estimate) in 1086. During the … elected two marshwardens each year. 15 Some 200 a. of marsh remained common until 1958, when they were taken over … council for use as recreation grounds. 16 The strips or 'cowleazes' in the meadows belonged to the owners of …
A History of the County of Essex
… sable, a lion's face between four crosses bottenee, or The land rises gradually from the rich alluvial marshes … Mile. It was previously called Trikerslane (recorded 1414) or Crykettslane (1516). 17 West of Crooked Mile is a wide expanse of marsh and meadow split into islands by the channels of the …
A History of the County of Essex
… 'an old, rotten house in times past an alehouse', with 5 or 6 chambers, kitchen, milkhouse, and buttery, and 6 a. of … popular being Our Lady light. The others were the Rood or Holy Cross light, and the Trinity, St. Katherine, Hocking, … (1840), and St. James's (1842) at the lower end of Marsh Street. In 1844 parishes were formed for all three …
A History of the County of Essex
… Salters woods (10 a.), and Great and Little Halebrains or Hale Brinks with 40 a. and 4 a. respectively. Those were … 215 a., 15 survived to the mid 19th century. Mill field or Higham Hill common (104 a.), mentioned in 1478, 16 lay in … rights survived to the 1930s. The 'great meadow' or common marsh, divided by a ditch into the Inner and Outer meads, …
A History of the County of Essex
… but it seems to have closed by 1818. 27 From 1815 or earlier 50 girls were clothed and educated in the … and Gothic features, were part of Connaught hospital. 39 Marsh Street British school. In 1789 dissenters established a … 2 orphanages, but by 1906 about a third of them had closed or left Walthamstow. 246 The number declined after the First …
A History of the County of Essex
… known at different periods as Papermill, Coppermill, or Waterworks river, branched from the Lea at Fleetmouth, 11 … and Blackmarsh sewer west of the brook, 14 were diverted or filled in when the flood relief channel was built in … In 1699 most of the buildings south of Chapel End were in Marsh Street, Church End, Shernhall Street, Clay Street …
A History of the County of Essex
… were held up to 1895, at Tony (Shern) Hall until 1848 or later, 5 in c. 18638 at the Ferry Boat inn, 6 and in 1880 … normally 2 of each, up to 1881. The election of marsh bailiff or haywarden is first recorded in 1759 and annually from …
A History of the County of Essex
… The manor of WALTHAMSTOW, later called WALTHAMSTOW TONY or HIGH HALL, 2 the largest in the parish, may originally … of Walthamstow Bedyk, later called Walthamstow Fraunceys or Low Hall. 23 Ralph de Tony V died in France in 1295, … sides of the parish boundary ( mearc), between the common marsh and Hoe Street. 248 One of the boundary posts was at …
A History of the County of Essex
… a permanent congregation of Presbyterians existed in Marsh Street. 14 Their numbers and prestige grew in the 18th … with Sunday congregations totalling over 13,827 20 or about 56.5 per cent of worshippers of all denominations in … of Commercial Street, whose church was formed in 1633 in Wapping, sold their premises in 1909 and in 1911 invited Zion …
A History of the County of Essex
… between Walthamstow and Leyton, 1 perhaps the business in Marsh Street sold in 1758 by Joseph Schooling. 2 Schooling's … was probably bought by Francis Wragg, who was rated in Marsh Street from 1759 and was certainly operating coaches by … three daily deliveries. The receiving house, which was in Marsh Street by 1803, was called the Western office in 1820, …