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A History of the County of Shropshire
… there were said to be 38 a. of wood in Wombridge, worth 10 s. an acre. 8 Among the coppices in the later 17th and 18th … 11 Four or five ploughteams belonged to William Charlton's Wombridge tenants in the years 1693-8; most of the parish's … 1780s Wilkinson had opened another furnace nearby, on a brook at Hollinswood. It was associated with those at …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… OF SETTLEMENT. The original endowment of St. Leonard's priory seems to have consisted of the central part of what … king's wood (Wrockwardine wood), on the west by Springwell brook, and on the south by Watling Street. 90 Eastward and … Est., and Econ. Hist. (Agric.). For the name Springwell brook see T.S.A.S. xi. 335; J. E. G. Cartlidge, The Priory of …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… comprised Wrockwardine Wood C.P. (914 a.) and the new C.P.s of St. George's (129 a.) and Priorslee (584 a.). 56 In 1934 the U.D.'s … c. 1269. The western boundary partly followed Springwell brook, whose ancient course was largely obliterated by …
Alumni Oxonienses
… Woodall, William 1600. See Woodhall. Woodarde, Nicholas s. Christopher, of Mechlen in Flanders, gent. Magdalen Hall, … New England, 1642 (its first graduate), said to be S.T.D.; a minister in Salisbury, and at Newbury, Berks, … rector of Stanton Fitzwarren, Wilts, 1625; see Foster's Index Eccl.; for an account of his son John, see Calamy, i. …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… No teams were employed on the demesne of Brictric's estate at that time. 8 In 1297 50 a. of arable and small … during the 16th century. 10 The tenants on Brictric's estate in 1086 included 16 villani and 12 bordars working … Park Mill was in Woodchester parish, stood on the Inch brook. 31 Park Mill, standing on the lowest lake in …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… built, and the southern boundary is formed by the Inch brook and ornamental ponds built on the brook by the late 18th century. 2 The north-western boundary … by the Inferior Oolite, with small deposits of fuller's earth and the Great Oolite on Bown hill. 4 The main route …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… 880 hectares, lies between the R. Nene and Cranford Brook, on land rising S.W. from 100 ft. to 280 ft. above OD. The higher S.W. part … N.W. of the village, above the valley of Cranford Brook, on Cornbrash at 210 ft. above OD. Air photographs …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ( St. Margaret), a parish, in the union of Horncastle, S. division of the wapentake of Gartree, parts of Lindsey, county of Lincoln, 3 miles (W. S. W.) from Horncastle; containing, in 1841, 307 inhabitants. … Elizabeth, during the reign of Mary. The village, called Brook-street from a stream which flows through the parish, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Nassington, covers some 420 hectares lying across Willow Brook, between 80 ft. and 210 ft. above OD. Most of it is on … limestones and sands which outcrop along the valley of the brook. Prehistoric and Roman For crop-marks in the parish, … (TL 037941), formerly part of Woodnewton village, at its S.E. end, E. of the road to Southwick. The site consists of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… of Rockingham. The village lies on the N. side of Willow Brook and consists of a single street with a back lane on the … XVI. 5). The sheltered position and fertile soil on the S. side of the street gave rise in the 19th century to a … party wall between the cottages is dog-legged. (21) Willow Brook Farm, formerly the Hare and Hounds Inn, two storeys, …