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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Whitechurch 56 WINTERBORNE WHITECHURCH (8300) (O.S. 6 ins. ST 80 SW, ST 80 SE, SY 89 NW) The parish lies in the valley of the Winterborne brook and has an area of 3,436 acres, entirely on Chalk. … of Winterbornes in Dorset. To the N., on both sides of the brook lay Whatcombe, now Higher Whatcombe. Threequarters of a …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… who held the lands that had once been Robert dispensator's. 28 The earliest reference to their tenure of Wistow seems … earls of Pembroke, who remained tenants of the family's Leicestershire estates, including Wistow, until the death … held for a money rent from Reynold Grey. 36 After Richard's death the manor passed from his brother and heir Leonard to …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Pyder and of the county of Cornwall, 5 miles (W. by S.) from Bodmin; containing 468 inhabitants. The parish … of Withiel. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 10, and in the gift of Sir R. R. Vyvyan, Bart.: … pleasing. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 30; net income, 686; patron, the Bishop of …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… on the lower slopes of a wide valley, close to the Foxcote Brook. Three irregular pits contained Iron Age pottery … under part of the arable common field and was excavated by S. Lysons in 1811 (Plate 51). 4 The site, on the E. shoulder … structural alteration, including the blocking of the S. flues into the hypocaust (L) and the asymmetrical …
A History of the County of Oxford
… adapting to new conditions largely accounting for the town's continued prosperity: in 1851 blanket-workers still … 2 and in the 1880s the industry was still called the town's 'staple' trade. 3 Difficulties in the 1850s, when the town's population fell through emigration, 4 may be partly …
A History of the County of Oxford
… INDUSTRY 19001945 During the earlier 20th century Witney's economy remained chiefly dependent on the blanket industry … manufacturers, accounting for 90 per cent of the town's production in 1949; 10 in the mid 1920s Smith's merged with the large Manchester wholesalers J. & N. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and the excavated remains of the bishop of Winchester's manor house show that there was high-quality stone building … been built parallel to the street. A house on High Street's east side, described in 1704, had a parlour, hall, entry, … room to the rear may have been added soon after the house's first building. The hall lay south of the parlour at the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a. 2 r. 19 p. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 17. 10.; net income, 400; patron, the Rev. F. J. … of Wallingford, hundred of Ock, county of Berks, 4 miles (S. W.) from Abingdon; containing 580 inhabitants. It is … comprises 418 acres of land, divided from Stanton by a brook which has woody banks, and runs into the Wansbeck. The …
A History of the County of Essex
… third highest in Lexden hundred, 20 reflecting Wivenhoe's growth as a port whose develop- ment was linked with the … same manorial watermill. It was probably the mill on the Brook, in the south-east of the parish on the Elmstead border … old mill house commonly called Bobbits Hole stood on the Brook. 65 Archaeological evidence suggests there was a …
A History of the County of Essex
… 12 to 16 jurors. Cases of animals trespassing on the lord's land, breach of the assize of ale, and of infringing the … county council. 81 Before 1964 there was a fire station in Brook Street, a former boathouse, sited there apparently so … a vestry committee, having inspected pollution in Wivenhoe brook, acknowledged the need for a pure water supply. In 1872 …