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A History of the County of Essex
… over 50 subscribers and by 1930 c. 150. 22 POPULATION, SETTLEMENT, AND DOMESTIC BUILDINGS. A Neolithic arrowhead and … parish, and some linear features may indicate prehistoric settlement. 23 The place name, Wivenhoe, meaning Wifa's ridge or spur of land, 24 suggests early Anglo-Saxon settlement. In 1066 Wivenhoe manor had a recorded popu- …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Wollaston 66 WOLLASTON Fig. 156 Wollaston (4) Roman settlement, (3, 6, 7) Cropmarks (OS 1:10000 a SP 86 SE, b SP … one of the ditches intersects a pit alignment. b(4) Roman Settlement (SP 904645; Fig. 156), 350 m. E. of (3) and … limestone have been found (OS Record Cards). b(5) Roman Settlement and Cropmarks (centred SP 908645; Fig. 157), …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 36 presumably conformed to the Elizabethan settlement, although as late as 1585 a Wolvercote woman's …
A History of the County of Oxford
… with Richard Owen over 3 horses and 2 colts in 1561. 17 A settlement reached in 1563, after a series of disputes …
A History of the County of Oxford
… part of the parish, 88 but the first clear evidence for settlement in the area is the Romano-British pottery found … which suggests an extension of the scattered agricultural settlement of that date found in North Oxford. 89 There was a … Wulfgar's cottage or cottages, suggests that the settlement was at first a small and probably secondary one, …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Few roads are likely to have been made before industry and settlement expanded in the 17th century, though there was … estate from the Horsepasture mines, north-east of the settlement, probably to a wharf on Watling Street. 81 Among …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wombridge Growth of settlement GROWTH OF SETTLEMENT. The original endowment of St. Leonard's priory … the local coal and ironstone reserves. 94 Early lay settlement in the parish was perhaps along Watling Street. In …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… LATER OAKENGATES Communications, p. 284. Growth of Settlement, p. 285. Social and Cultural Activities, p. 289. … sizeable town in the mid 19th century, dwarfing the small settlement at Wombridge, and in 1895 Wombridge parish council … and gained from Shifnal C.P. Below, Growth of Settlement. O.S. Map 1/50,000, sheet 127 (1977 edn.). Ibid.; …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… number of immigrant workers in Wombridge led to numerous settlement disputes. 19 Wombridge was included in Wellington …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… by John Spyers who made a survey in 1782. 15 The earliest settlement at Woodchester, a substantial Roman villa widely … the site of the church 18 and the manor-house. 19 The main settlement of the parish follows the line of the Nailsworth … building has been done since 1800 the description of the settlement in the later 18th century, 'Higher in the view are …