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A History of the County of Oxford
… reflected the experience of many small cloth towns, 1 and may have had its origins in an earlier tradition of local … adherents necessarily lived within the town or parish. For much of the 18th century Dissent, though strong, never … but Methodism remained a dominant force in the town for much of the 20th century. The 19th-century Methodist …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… W. by N.) from Wallingford; containing 125 inhabitants, and comprising 869 a. 2 r. 19 p. The living is a rectory, … is surrounded by an ancient intrenchment supposed to be British, and to have been afterwards occupied by the Romans, … of Exeter College, Oxford: the tithes were commuted for land in 1809. Funeral urns and other Roman antiquities …
A History of the County of Essex
… Wivenhoe Manors and other estates ECONOMIC HISTORY. Between 1066 and 1086 the … small and insignificant. In 1327 its assessment for subsidy was one of the lowest of the parishes in Lexden … enjoyed a decade of expansion, making many ships for British and foreign governments, before the firm was …
A History of the County of Essex
… warren in their demesne lands in Wivenhoe. 39 In the 14th and 15th centuries courts with view of frankpledge were held … higher. 50 In the 16th century bequests were often made for relieving the poor, 51 and weekly collections are … and Wivenhoe was supplied by the Eastern Gas Board, later British Gas. 93 Forrestt's, the shipbuilding firm, was lit by …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… who, after a judicial combat at Salisbury, was executed for high treason, was lord of the principal part of this … granted to the family of Clare, who gave the manor and church to Tintern Abbey, together with several granges … with sculpture of various designs, supposed to be either British or Danish. Near the south-western angle of the …
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, … small streams on part of the north, and field boundaries for the rest. The extra-parochial area of Godstow (411 a.), … clear evidence for settlement in the area is the Romano-British pottery found near the modern Oxford bypass in the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Helmsley to Kirkby-Moorside. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans. John Stockton, in 1839, left 10 per annum for … WOMBOURN ( St. Benedict), a parish, in the union, and S. division of the hundred, of Seisdon, S. division of … paper, mill-board, and flour mills; and many of the females are employed in the manufacture of bone-lace. The …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… In 1693 Robert Bromhall, LL. D., was licensed as deacon and schoolmaster in the parish. 49 By 1833 20 boys and 21 … 50 A National school opened in 1846 and a short-lived British school in 1860. 51 George Collins, vicar 1872-8, 52 tried in vain to raise money for a new church school at Ketley Bank where 250 children …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… to be processed to concentrate the content of potassium and to turn the raw product into POTASHES and PEARL ASH. It … was confined largely to fixing HINGEs, and rather later for securing the corner blocks in the seat frames of CHAIRs … was regarded traditionally as the most important of all British industries, and as such was the most highly …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… from West Park (SO 8101) in 1850. 1 A coin of Germanicus and Romano-British pottery found in 1863 in the long barrow on Bown … A century before Lysons the graveyard was 'famous for its tesseraick work' (Gibson, Camden's Britannia (1695), …