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A History of the County of Stafford
… a community centre, still its use in 1999. The Joseph Clark county primary school was opened on a site off … 13 Educ. Enq. Abstract, 145. P.R.O., ED 7/112/Burton/19; S.R.O., Staffs. C.C. deeds, C 1493; Returns relating to … Bulmer & Co. Dir. Derb. 840. Plaque in entrance hall. Clark was cllr. for Winshill and Wetmore ward 1919-66 and …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the inclusion (from Wisbech Borough) of the hamlet of Ring's End, on the Nene opposite Guyhirn. Although it is … At the later date the total rents amounted to 45 5 s. 6 d. 18 As usual in the 14th century, a decline in … is evident. In 1391 the rents amounted to only 37 12 s. 6 d. By this time a good deal of reclamation had been …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 2 acres. Before this time various creeks, such as Carlton's Creek, 5 penetrated a long way inland and allowed the … In Leverington: the Marsh, Spitalfield, Thummins, Margerie's Croft, Farthing Field, Outnewlands, Fen Croft, Church … was formerly in the possession of the family of Samuel Clark, from whom it passed to the Revd. Jeremiah Jackson (d. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Tydd, has been known since the 17th century as Lady Nunn's Old Eau, from the wife of a 14th-century Tydd landowner. 1 … it possesses nearly a score of variants. 'St. Mary's Tyd', which constantly recurs, might perhaps account for the appearance of the initial 'S' in Stith, which is a rare form; this would negative the …
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 History of the County of Oxford
… by subscriptions, loans, and a subvention from the town's Freeland estate charity, 1 together with sale of old … the bailiffs and excluded from charitable uses. 4 Holloway's and Townsend's Almshouses Two other almshouses were founded … 11/142, ff. 3425. Ibid. PROB 11/151, ff. 164v.165; for Clark, Witney Ct. Bks. 220. ORO, MS Wills Oxon. 60/1/33. PRO, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… ECONOMIC LIFE 1500 TO 1800 From the 16th century Witney's economy was dominated by its expanding cloth industry, … riots. Conditions improved only with the blanket industry's recovery in the early 19th century, as piecemeal mechanization transformed the town's industrial organization. 14 The Cloth and Blanket Industry …
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
… and Curbridge were added in 1932, bringing the town's area to 1,306 a., and intakes from Curbridge (47 a.) and … the river and surrounded by low-lying alluvium. The river's surviving eastern branch formed the town's and parish's eastern boundary until the 20th century, and …
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 …