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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 … Smith (1965), 10511. RVB, passim. Agrarian History of England, I, pt. 2 (S. Applebaum), passim. JBAA, VI (1851), …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Roman catholicism ROMAN CATHOLICISM. The revival of Roman Catholicism in the parish dates from the purchase of the manor by William Leigh, a convert to catholicism. … 1853. Woodchester was the principal house of the order in England for some years and was later used as a novitiate 97 …
A History of the County of Essex
… Woodford Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. The wealth of woodland in Woodford long determined the economic life of the village, providing timber and some pasture, while … 408. J. Lucas (trans.), Kalm's account of his visit to England [1748], 1667. Erith, Woodford, 36. G.L.C., DL/C/298. …
A History of the County of Essex
… Sunday school at Woodford, apparently Anglican, where most of the children of the poor were taught and clothed charitably. 1 By 1807, if … the freehold of the premises. 15 St. Paul's Church of England school, Woodford Bridge, was opened in 1859, in …
A History of the County of Essex
… Introduction WOODFORD Woodford was an ancient parish of 2,146 a., 1 lying about 8 miles north-east of the City of London, at the northern end of Becontree … George Lane, became deputy governor of the Bank of England, which he had helped to establish. 143 Job Matthew, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Margaret) WOODHALL ( St. Margaret), a parish, in the union of Horncastle, S. division of the wapentake of Gartree, parts of Lindsey, county of … has a larger portion of iodine than any other spring in England. It contains, in an imperial gallon, of chloride of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… S.E.) Woodham Ferrers is a parish and village 6 m. S.W. of Maldon. The church, Bicknacre Priory and Edwin's Hall are … principal monuments. Ecclesiastical b(1). Parish Church of St. Mary stands at the S. end of the village. The walls … S.E. window, two shields of (1) France (ancient) and (2) England, 14th-century, partly patched with other old glass. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to those founded in the chantry house on the north side of the church by Thomas Croft (d. 1488). 77 In 1551 the … in 1724. 79 In 1614 it housed old men and women; a list of doles to the almshouse poor c. 1630 evidently included … left c. £5 a year to poor communicants of the Church of England resident in Woodstock; the charity survived in 1985. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Matthew) WOOKEY ( St. Matthew), a parish, in the union of Wells, hundred of Wells-Forum, E. division of Somerset, 1 mile (W.) from … use many goats were kept. Here is a branch of the North of England bank; a public subscription library is supported, and …
A History of the County of Somerset
… from a Saxon personal name, 5 lies on the northern slope of the Polden ridge near its western end. It is 6 km. northwest of Bridgwater. The ancient parish was almost rectangular in … Committee of Som. (1646), Times Whirligig (1646/7), and England's Changeling (1659), is said to have come from …