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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 … 86 Natural boundaries were formed by streams on the east and north-west, Wivenhoe and Whit- more heaths on the north-east, and the river Colne …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… granted to the family of Clare, who gave the manor and church to Tintern Abbey, together with several granges … the town, on the west and north, where it is joined by the Essington and Wyrley canal. The Liverpool and Birmingham railway, also, …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… paid for it to the Dane-geld after the rate of a carucat and an half. The Land was then for twelve oxen, or twelve … but at 60s. The Soc extended into Totteshale, Brauncote, and Sudtune. [Pedigree] The family of Mortein were the next … Henry the firsts time, at the foundation of Lenton Priory; and Adam de Moretonio, 2 22 H. 2. gave account of xxx marks …
A History of the County of Oxford
… abbey consolidated much of its demesne land in Wolvercote and St. Giles's parish into a single block of land straddling … the process: in return for land at Ailmerswell, Horestone, and Hawsland ditch in the north end of St. Giles's, Godstow … in 1795 meadowland and arable near the newly-cut Oxford canal was said to have been damaged by water leakage, some of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… an ancient parish lying on the north-west of the city and liberty of Oxford, c. 2 ½ miles north of the city centre, contained two settlements, Upper and Lower Wolvercote; the adjoining extra-parochial areas of … old course of the Cherwell later followed by the Oxford canal. The eastern, higher, ground is on Oxford Clay and the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… WOMBOURN ( St. Benedict), a parish, in the union, and S. division of the hundred, of Seisdon, S. division of … Wolverhampton; containing, with the liberties of Orton and Swindon, 1808 inhabitants, of whom 1220 are in the … cultivation. The Staffordshire and Worcestershire canal passes for four miles and a half through the parish. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Few roads are likely to have been made before industry and settlement expanded in the 17th century, though there was … road (later Teague's Bridge Lane) crossed the Wombridge Canal, perhaps not long after the canal's construction in … Priorslee in 1975. Work to link it eastwards to the M 6 at Essington (Staffs.) was completed in 1983. 76 A network 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 … become a problem, and the construction of the Shrewsbury Canal was proposed. 39 Deep mining began early in the 19th …
Alumni Oxonienses
… graduate), said to be S.T.D.; a minister in Salisbury, and at Newbury, Berks, ejected 1662 for nonconformity, … 1526, and canon of Wells 1537. See Foster's Index Eccl. Wyrley, Edward s. Edward, of Coleshill, co. Warwick, pleb. … at his death in 1673. See Foster's Index Eccl. [ 20] Wyrley, Francis B.A. from Balliol Coll. 3 June, 1630, as …
A History of the County of Oxford
… New Woodstock was incorporated in 1453 75 the borough and its customs were ancient. The plots laid out at the town's foundation were held by burgage tenure, 76 and the burgesses from the outset, in addition to their … to invest in government stock and later in the Oxford Canal Company. 92 Lack of funds rendered the corporation …