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A History of the County of Oxford
… a row of six cottages, each was usually let to non-paupers at commercial rents and the income used for charitable … with sale of old materials; the new cottages were let at their full value until the loan was repaid, and further … and lower room and a garden for each occupant, were built at Church Green immediately east of the church, and in 1868 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… tenants of New Mill: Edmund Wright, killed in an accident at the mill about 1808, acquired some notoriety among local … who had 70 weavers and spinning or fulling machinery at Witney and New Mills, while most others employed 2035 … later, 22 while premises belonging to a small manufacturer at West End were sold in 1847. 23 Meanwhile the Blanket …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… with that of Trysull annexed, valued in the king's books at 12. 12. 8., and in the patronage of certain Trustees. The … spire; it was enlarged and thoroughly repaired in 1841, at a cost of 1500, and now contains 600 sittings, of which … communicating with the extensive coal and iron mines at Ketley and in the neighbourhood, which have been worked …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 1656. 55 Before 1693 a minister built a house on the waste at Oakengates and lived there, but within a few years Francis … 58 From that period there is evidence of regular services at Wombridge, perhaps interrupted in the 1770s; baptisms and … lived in the parish 67 but Robert Bromhall, LL.D., lived at Hadley. When licensed in 1693, immediately after his …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… for tradesmen's horses. 17 Mills. There was an iron mill at Wombridge at the Dissolution, probably near the priory on the stream … in Wombridge, almost certainly to grind corn; probably at least one of the mills was converted from the earlier iron …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 52 tried in vain to raise money for a new church school at Ketley Bank where 250 children lacked school places in … 56 Controversy raged over the board's intended school site at Ketley Bank, some ratepayers demanding a more central … in 1910. 59 There were two girls' private schools. One at Belle Vue House, Stafford Road, existed in 1891 and 1910. …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… time had another manor, for which he was rated to the geld at five bov. The land two car. which seems to be managed when … Elena married to Ivo Jeke of Prestwold, who by a fine at York, 16 R. 2. 16 settled this manor on Thomas de …
The Environs of London
… now is. It lies in the hundred of Becontree, at the distance of about seven miles and a half from … pays the sum of 374l. 12s. to the land-tax, which is at the rate of about one shilling in the pound. The manor. … was lord of the manor of Woodfordhall in Essex, and died at his manor-house there, in 1420 10. Whether this was …
A History of the County of Essex
… and charities EDUCATION. In 1796 there was a Sunday school at Woodford, apparently Anglican, where most of the children … it was in use in 1965 as the church hall. In 1851 a room at Woodford Bridge, rented by the clergy for church services, … until the 1890s when there was a National infants school at Woodford Bridge. 20 From 1806 until at least 1861, when a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 97 rent-payers, and Adam Bennet, Robert Marshall, John at Green, Richard Marden, and the hospital of St. John, … Caperuns, and Nortons. 71 In 1306, when taxed as demesne at a twentieth, c. 43 contributors paid a total of only c. 3 … and malthouses were mentioned, 88 and in 1571 there were at least 17 privately owned malt querns, mostly held by …