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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 … was established in 1897 on Black Buoy Hill to teach navigation skills and provide a secular social centre for …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… between the R. Nene which forms its N.W. boundary and Bedfordshire which lies to the E. The E. part is mainly covered by Boulder Clay and slopes gently W. between 90 m. and 100 m. above OD. To the W. the land falls dramatically …
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
… 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 … through the site of Godstow abbey, to the west of the old navigation stream, and a pound lock was built at its lower …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Wolvercote Site and remains of Godstow abbey Site and remains of Godstow abbey Godstow abbey was built on an … of Owen's Wolvercote property, to Sir John Walter in 1616, and descended in his family until 1702 when Sir John's …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… WOMBOURN ( St. Benedict), a parish, in the union, and S. division of the hundred, of Seisdon, S. division of … Smeaton, and met the new line of navigation made by the Aire and Calder Company. The road from Doncaster, by Askerne, to …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… of Wombridge 1808-56, resisted the nonconformists 25 and, save for the Wesleyan chapel at Ketley Bank, no … established in his parish during his time. In the 1840s and 1850s, however, Primitive Methodist, Congregational, and New Connexion Methodist chapels opened on the southern …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… (d. 1863). 32 It was sold in 1864 to the Oakengates and St. George's Gas and Water Co. Ltd., 33 which was in turn bought by the … Gas Works stood on the south-western edge of Trench Pool, and in 1912 the Hadley, Trench, and Wrockwardine Wood …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… parish, formerly part of Blakesley, contains the site and lands of the deserted village of Kirby (1) as well as the existing settlements of Woodend and Woodend Green, and covers some 700 hectares (Fig. 28). It is bounded on both …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… parish, covering 880 hectares, lies between the R. Nene and Cranford Brook, on land rising S.W. from 100 ft. to 280 … but along the valley sides bands of clays, limestones and sands outcrop. Prehistoric and Roman b(1) Enclosures (SP 95617725), N.W. of the village, …