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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 1668 they passed to his brother Daniel, a linen draper of Colchester, who re-sold them two years later in small lots. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… with the river Blackwater, on the main road from London to Colchester. It is of respectable appearance, and consists … of the Eastern Counties railway, 12 miles from that of Colchester. In 1846 an act was passed for a railway from …
A History of the County of Oxford
… wool was reportedly brought from as far as Canterbury, Colchester, Norwich, and Leicester, collected in London and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Lexden and Winstree, Colchester division of the hundred of Lexden, N. division of Essex, 4 miles (S. E. by E.) from Colchester; containing 1599 inhabitants. The village is … establishment, with a commodious quay, whence the noted Colchester oysters are shipped for the London and other …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… and small town on the left bank of the Colne, 3 m. S.E. of Colchester. The church, Wivenhoe Hall and the house (6) are …
A History of the County of Essex
… contributed to the upkeep of the houses after 1959. Colchester borough council gave a loan to help with the …
A History of the County of Essex
… not valued in 1291 when it paid 4 s. to St. John's abbey, Colchester, and 2 s. 2 d. to St. Osyth's priory. 7 The … rector 1750-71, was also perpetual curate of St. Giles's Colchester 1749-71, and rector of Paglesham 1752-71. A friend …
A History of the County of Essex
… develop- ment was linked with the expanding economy of Colchester. 21 Between 1381 and 1560 from 20 to 29 Wivenhoe men became Colchester bur- gesses. 22 By the 17th century shipbuilding, … extending into Cockaynes in Elmstead. 24 St. John's abbey, Colchester, owned 120 a. called Withemorhad and Nordhei, on …
A History of the County of Essex
… THE ancient parish of Wivenhoe, c. 3 miles south-east of Colchester on the east bank of the river Colne where it … port in the south-west corner of the parish, which served Colchester from the 16th century or earlier until the 19th, … and remained so until 1974 when it became part of the new Colchester district, later designated borough. 86 Natural …
A History of the County of Essex
… and in 1765 the workhouse master was a bayweaver from Colchester. 57 The workhouse master and mistress were … in the 17th to 19th centuries, mostly in Wivenhoe and Colchester, but also in other towns in north Essex and in … 77 In 1974 Wivenhoe urban district council became part of Colchester district (later borough). A town council with a …