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Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… but considerable recent finds of samian pottery in the area of the outer court support previous indications of … including the statuary, are in B.M.; other finds are in Stroud Museum, and a hypocaust tile with hobnail marks is in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Mary) WOODCHESTER ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Stroud, hundred of Longtree, E. division of the county of Gloucester, 2 miles (S. W.) from Stroud; containing 908 inhabitants. This place is supposed to …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… was John Williams, D.D., 83 formerly assistant curate at Stroud. 84 The ancient parish church of ST. MARY 85 stood at … and his wife and some wall monuments by Franklin of Stroud and John Ricketts the elder of Gloucester. 87 In 1851 … ccccxv; Rudder, Glos. 630. Hockaday Abs. ccccxv. Fisher, Stroud, 281-9. G.D.R. vol. 285B, f. 19. For the old church, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… by the estate of that name, and Witcombe field in the area round Bown hill where there was also a very small open … a firm of piano-makers, called Gladman & Co. and later the Stroud Piano Co., occupied the mill, but in 1938 the main … established in the Nailsworth valley or in the towns of Stroud and Nailsworth. Dom. Bk. (Rec. Com.), i. 164, 170v. …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… the west side of the Nailsworth valley two miles south of Stroud town. In 1972 the parish, a triangular unit comprising 1,206 a., occupied the same area as the ancient parish. Its eastern boundary follows the … 2 The north-western boundary is formed in part by the Stroud-Dursley road, turnpiked as far as Buckholt wood in …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… to £335 in 1834. 49 In 1836 Woodchester became part of Stroud poor-law union, 50 and in 1972 was part of Stroud rural district. Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 254. …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… sold by the lord of the manor in 1602 to Robert Tayloe of Stroud, clothier, and his son Robert. 86 It was apparently … north-west wing, possibly designed by William Clissold of Stroud, the architect of a near-by bailiff's house in 1871. …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… 99 The church continued as the parish church for a wide area to the south of Stroud in 1972. In 1860 a house of Third Order Regular … by the nuns, did contract work for Holloway Bros. of Stroud. 2 A Gothic chapel and conventual buildings, designed …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… formally a distinct ecclesiastical parish. 13 The rateable area included pieces within Woodditton open fields 'which if … 15 The last two stretches retained part of the built-up area called Shagbag within Woodditton but placed part in … 303 a. covering more than the contiguously built-up area was transferred into Newmarket urban dis trict and …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… century to 880 a. of arable, 2 divided between a larger area 'on one side of the township' (evidently in the open … in the 1840s and c. 1900. 30 By 1910 the only large area not owned by the estate was a block of c. 500 a. in the … and grazing. In both 1870 and 1910 over 45 per cent of the area cropped was under cereals and over 15 per cent under …