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A History of the County of Stafford
… Winshill Manor Manor Winshill was included in Wulfric Spot's endowment of Burton abbey 1002 x 1004, 10 and in 1086 the abbey's manor there was assessed for tax on 2 … 1 Charters of Burton Abbey, ed. Sawyer, p. 55. V.C.H. Staffs. iv. 58. S.H.C. 1916, 240-1. Above, Burton, manor. …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Winshill Other churches Other churches The four people in Winshill who were presented in 1668 for not coming to church may have been followers of … D. 86/2/1; P.R.O., RG 10/2903; Plan of Burton (1879). Staffs. Advertiser, 3 Dec. 1887, p. 7. Burton Libr., D. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Winterbourne WINTERBOURNE, a chapelry, in the parish of Chieveley, union of Newbury, hundred of … (St. Martin) WINTERBOURNE ( St. Martin), a parish, in the union of Dorchester, hundred of George, Dorchester … of Salisbury; impropriators, E. M. Pleydell, and H. C. Compton, Esqrs. The vicarial tithes have been commuted for …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… This large parish 1 is of a different type from the others in Wisbech hundred. Its nucleus is an island of gravel, not … has proceeded outwards from this nucleus, resulting in an oblong area some 6 miles east to west by 4 miles north … of them attended both weekdays and Sundays, and the staffs and their salaries were on a generous scale. The staff …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Nene. It appears to have emerged from Wisbech (St. Peter) in 1109 when Wisbech vill was divided between the Bishop of … and convent. That this separation had not taken place in early times is suggested by the fact that the parish … unusually so. The largest settlement is round the church, in the north-east corner of the parish about 3 miles …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… It became indeed the main feature of Wisbech life in the later Middle Ages and was the direct ancestor of the Corporation. It is reputed to have originated in 1379, the year of the earliest surviving account. 99 Certain entries in the account, however, make it plain that the Guild had …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… WISBECH Wisbech is the largest and only corporate town in the Isle, and the nodal point for the whole marshland area … of the Well Stream, which divided Wisbech from Walsoken in Norfolk, to the far end of Wisbech High Fen beyond … Another ecclesiastical return, made by order of Bishop Compton in 1676, 38 showed 1,424 persons of communicant age …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Protestant nonconformity PROTESTANT NONCONFORMITY In 1638 unlawful meetings and conventicles were held in Wisbech at the house of Thomas Bouth. 81 The Baptists are … figure as a prominent centre of Nonconformity in Bishop Compton's 'census' of 1676, which enumerated only 12 …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… edge of the barrow and two Romano-British tile fragments in the rubble of the barrow mound. A tile stamped VLA 1 is comparable with the broken VL stamp on a flue-tile from Compton Grove Villa, Compton Abdale (1). Foxcote Tumulus (SP 011172), a large …
A History of the County of Oxford
… not to become largely a dormitory town, a recurrent theme in the second half of the 20th century. 1 The arrival in 1950 of the engineering firm Smiths' of England, … Crawford Collets employed 250 people at expanded premises, Compton and Webb's uniform factory 150, and Brazil's sausage …