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A History of the County of Essex
… Wivenhoe Education EDUCATION. In 1588 an 'unlawful' school- teacher was recorded. 94 A charity school, started in … by c. 200 children; weekly fees ranged from 1 d. to 1 s. 97 Private schools were also recorded in 1844 and 1845. 98 … It was supported by voluntary contri- butions, children's pence, and the proceeds of the sale of girls' handwork. Two …
A History of the County of Essex
… a post office by 1853, probably the one which was in Queen's Road in 1887, and a sub post office at Wivenhoe Cross by … settlement. 23 The place name, Wivenhoe, meaning Wifa's ridge or spur of land, 24 suggests early Anglo-Saxon … sailing matches were held from 1796, and the play The School for Scandal was performed in 1798. 68 The salt-water …
A History of the County of Essex
… In 1829 there was a con- gregation of 500 and the Sunday school, which had been founded by 1816, had 150 children. 73 … W. F. Tyler (1883-1927) a Band of Hope met, there were men's bible classes and prayer meetings, and the earlier … plan in 1837; there was preaching, apparently in a member's house, every Sunday afternoon and evening, and fort- …
A History of the County of Essex
… After the Second World War mass was celebrated in a former school in High Street. In 1967 St. Monica's Roman Catholic church was opened off De Vere Lane. In 1995 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Alvington and Lancaut consolidated, valued in the king's books at 13. 11. 5., and in the gift of the Duke of … N. division of the county of Northampton, 3 miles (S. S. E.) from Wellingborough; containing 1120 inhabitants. … Baptists, Primitive Methodists, and Wesleyans. The grammar school, founded in 1613, with a residence for the master, was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Wolvercote Economic history Economic history St. Frideswide's estate at Cutteslowe was administered independently of … much of its demesne land in Wolvercote and St. Giles's parish into a single block of land straddling the parish … Registry, estimate of value of lands belonging to char. school at Islip. Blenheim Mun., box 151. P.R.O., E 318/824; …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Education Education There appears to have been no school in the parish before the beginning of the 19th century … glebe house and supported by subscriptions, including £2 2 s. from Merton College, was attended by 101 children, and in … in 1831, with the assistance of Merton College, St. John's College, and the National Society, a new girls' schoolroom …
A History of the County of Oxford
… is no further record of the under-tenancy, and d'Ivri's successors probably held in demesne. The manor descended with the rest of Roger d'Ivri's lands in the county and in the early 12th century was held … sold to Dr. Robert South of Islip for the endowment of his school there; they were sold to the city of Oxford by the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the new housing in North Oxford. 68 In 1672 James Beckford's house was licensed as a Baptist meeting house, and the 8 … in 1805, but they had no meeting place until John Ladson's cottage (later Nunnery Close) was licensed for Baptist … instigation of their minister James Dann, opened a Sunday school in Wolvercote, and in 1886 a Baptist chapel was built …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… wapentake of Ryedale, N. riding of York, 4 miles (E. by S.) from Helmsley; containing 337 inhabitants. It comprises … WOMBOURN ( St. Benedict), a parish, in the union, and S. division of the hundred, of Seisdon, S. division of the … payable to the rector, and Trinity College, Cambridge. A school at Hemingfield is supported by a grant of 15 per annum …