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A History of the County of Shropshire
… among the more notorious entertainments, and the county's last baiting was reputedly at the 1833 wake. 56 As late as … races and athletic competitions were held south of Pain's Lane in the mid to late 19th century during the wakes, 58 … Council. Trinder, Ind. Rev. Salop. (1981), 221; G. F. Carter and H. Walcot, Hist. Notes on Par. of Rodington (n.d.; …
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 Topographical Dictionary of England
… E. division of the county of Gloucester, 2 miles (S. W.) from Stroud; containing 908 inhabitants. This place is … to the Society of Antiquaries by Samuel Lysons, Esq., F.S.A., who published an elaborate account of these relics in … Charles Knightley, Bart., George Hitchcock, Esq., and Miss Carter. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the gift of …
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 … by the Inferior Oolite, with small deposits of fuller's earth and the Great Oolite on Bown hill. 4 The main route … converted to make cottages, one of which included a potter's workshop. South of Frogmarsh, on the lane called Convent …
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 is on Boulder Clay, but along the valley sides …
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
… 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 … Abbey, the manor house having been the W. tenement on the S. side of the street. Sir Guy Wolston gained possession of …
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 … (TL 037941), formerly part of Woodnewton village, at its S.E. end, E. of the road to Southwick. The site consists of three long narrow closes, orientated N.-S. and bounded by low banks, with the much damaged remains of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… (approx. 19 in. to 1 mile). Quitrents imposed on the town's original burgages survived until the 1930s. They were … and steel manufacturer, then to his son-in-law William Carter, alderman and grocer, 62 to the partner of a later William Carter, Alderman William Morris (d. 1860). From 1841 Gillett, …