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A History of the County of Oxford
… borough Roman catholicism ROMAN CATHOLICISM Despite hints of religious conservatism in the mid 16th century, there is no evidence of a strong recusant tradition in the town either then or … G. I. T. Machin, Politics and the Churches in Gt Britain 183268 (1977), 209 sqq. Stapleton, Cath. Missions, …
A History of the County of Essex
… by 1254 when Simon Battle was the patron. The advowson of the rectory descended with the lordship of Wivenhoe manor, the lords presenting regularly, except in … 3 and in 1890 when Robert Cantrell presented as guardian of N. C. C. Lawton, the younger, a minor. Lawton later sold …
A History of the County of Essex
… estates ECONOMIC HISTORY. Between 1066 and 1086 the number of bordarii increased from 6 to 20 which might suggest … days. It was perhaps associated with the patronal festival of the church on 8 September. The fair was moved … the port in the 19th century. 25 North Sea Canners (Great Britain) Ltd. opened on The Quay in 1932 and Eastern Frozen …
A History of the County of Oxford
… WOLVERCOTE, an ancient parish lying on the north-west of the city and liberty of Oxford, c. 2 ½ miles north of the … century the Foresters' Friendly Society held its annual festival on Whit Monday, with a church service, cricket … 354. D. A. Roe, Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Periods in Britain, 118-28; Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. c 334, ff. 30-1; …
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 … The market, which was held on Friday, and a fair on the festival of the translation of St. Edward, were granted by …
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 … only rolled there. Wrought iron too was being dumped in Britain, and c. 1925 the Snedshill works closed. Those …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the alehouse was an integral and ever present part of the community. There was an alehouse at Ketley Bank in … It was the chief venue of the Wrekin and Telford Festival from its inception in 1974. The festival, under the patronage of the distinguished cellist …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… Woodchester WOODCHESTER (11 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 … is perhaps to be equated with the supposed kiln at Little Britain, noted on p. 81, S.V. Minchinhampton. (1) Roman Villa …
A History of the County of Oxford
… survived until the 1930s. They were listed in a survey of 1279 and as 'the king's rents' in 1468-9. 48 Later the … their arrangement was partly topographical, as was that of the late 18th-century land tax assessments and the census returns of 1841-81. 51 The descent of many sites may therefore be …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was at Woodstock Park, which he visited regularly for love of Rosamund Clifford; he therefore provided land outside the … supported in part by other evidence, but Woodstock was one of Henry's principal residences before and after his … foundation was presumably a response to the gravitation of trade to the vicinity of the court, and Henry's motives …