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A History of the County of Shropshire
… in the 20th century. A United Church was formed in 1981 by the Methodists and United Reformed Church. About 1764 a Wesleyan society was established at Ketley Bank by J. W. Fletcher, vicar of Madeley. 26 A Wesleyan chapel … the Jubilee chapel. Designed by A.S.S.Q. Associates, of Birmingham, it was built by Patrick Smith. 48 V.C.H. Salop. …
Alumni Oxonienses
… 1662 for nonconformity, chaplain to Charles II., silenced by the act of conformity; died at Inglefield, Berks, 1 Nov., … aged 16, B.A. 8 Dec., 1633; vicar of Lyminge, Kent, 1644, by the Westminster assembly of divines. See Add. MS. 15,669, … 26 June, 1611; perhaps rector of Exhall 1615, vicar of Aston Cantelow 1616, rector of Billesley 1619, and of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… side of the River Avon. The parish is bounded on the east by the winding course of the river and on the west by the old … manor estate until 1920, when it was sold to Maj.-Gen. Aston. In 1942 it was bought by Lady Janet Bailey, and in … was born in Woodford, 24 and Maj.-Gen. Sir George Grey Aston (18611938), soldier and writer, lived at the Court …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Eastern division of the county of Gloucester, 5 miles (N. by W.) from Cirencester; containing 256 inhabitants. … rape of Bramber, W. division of Sussex, 6 miles (N. E. by E.) from Steyning; containing 378 inhabitants. The road … of fine steel has very much decayed since the rise of Birmingham and Sheffield: those made here formerly brought …
A History of the County of Oxford
… sites may therefore be traced, and identification is aided by a valuation of c. 1910 listing owners and tenants of all … chantry, dispersed after 1551. 54 The house was occupied by the schoolmaster in 1609 and later let to trandesman. 55 … were noted for the best homebrewed beer between London and Birmingham. 7 By then no. 32 seems to have been separately …
A History of the County of Oxford
… servants. Service in the park and household is denoted by 13th-century surnames 67 such as Parker, Porter, Franklin, … in relatively few hands: the c. 140 houses were held by only 97 rent-payers, and Adam Bennet, Robert Marshall, … 15 s. and 2 gn. a week. 96 Competition from cheaper Birmingham and Wolverhampton wares was intense by the 1780s, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1279 local jurors asserted that New Woodstock was founded by Henry II to provide lodgings for his retinue when he was … to the new residents. 5 The story is supported in part by other evidence, but Woodstock was one of Henry's principal … a twice-weekly service, and the Priors a weekly wagon to Birmingham. At that time no stage coaches operated from the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… again provided two M.P.s. Returns were usually made by the mayor and commonalty, implying that the franchise, as … of the death of a sitting member, 90 and the rejection by parliament of the freemen's choice when there was a double … MS. 19615, ff. 179-80; D. Green, Blenheim Palace, 135. Birmingham and Midland Inst. Trans. xii. 6. B.L. Add. MS. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Thedwastry, W. division of Suffolk, 6 miles (N. W. by W.) from Stow-Market; containing 942 inhabitants. This … part of the township of Dorrington, and part of that of Aston in the Staffordshire portion of the parish; the whole … 1832, and enlarged in 1840, educates 120 children; and at Aston is another school, built in 1842, in which are 20 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 70,000 acres of central Oxfordshire, bounded on the east by the river Cherwell, on the north by its tributary the … parks of the 18th century or earlier at North and Middle Aston, Glympton, Ledwell, Sandford, and Tackley; notable … neighbours such as Middle Barton, Stonesfield, Steeple Aston, and Wootton. The villages are built of local stone, …