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A History of the County of Sussex
… were built in Humphrys Road in that year, 28 endowed with adjoining land, a £78 yearly rent-charge to pay weekly … Two more houses were built c. 1867 in Portland Road, 29 with money bequeathed by Robert Humphrys's will dated 1860. … sale and accumulated income, were invested in stock. For some years the trustees made grants to Worthing hospital, …
A History of the County of Sussex
… manor in the early 15th century held land in Worthing, some of which had formerly been freehold. Seven of them owed … meadow, recorded in 1300 94 and 1493, 95 may be identified with the Town mead, recorded in the 1580s. 96 From the late … increasingly fragmented by the growth of the town which, with erosion to the east, reduced the amount of agricultural …
A History of the County of Sussex
… schools in the borough had been reorganized in accordance with the Hadow Report, 99 and the corporation continued as … were transferred to the Sussex Road board school. 12 For some years before 1814 the wife of the rector of Broadwater … became a girls' and infants' school in the late 1870s, 34 with an average attendance of 260 in 1893. 35 The infants …
A History of the County of Sussex
… the modern High, North, and Warwick streets. 34 There is some archaeological evidence for a settlement at the south … and 16th centuries. 35 One building dated 1762, of flint with brick dressings, survived in High Street in 1945, 36 but … The building, which was demolished in 1896, was of flint with yellow brick dressings, facing south. Its original …
A History of the County of Sussex
… held more intermittently. Up to c. 1750 the court dealt with land transactions, the regulation of agriculture, and … last two in 1895, but copyhold business was being dealt with until 1924. Besides the steward a beadle is recorded … became increasingly ineffective in dealing with some of the town's major problems, especially drainage and …
A History of the County of Sussex
… 1820s. 14 The Royal Hotel, designed by J. B. Rebecca, 15 with a facade with Ionic columns and pilasters, was destroyed by fire in … 98 and also to France. 99 Motor charabanc trips, including some longdistance ones, were started in 1907, and in the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Surrey, 3 miles (W. S. W.) from Dorking; containing, with the chapelry of Oakwood, 763 inhabitants. This parish, … an extreme view of the Wolds of Surrey and Sussex, with the English Channel in the distance, and northward a … the Evelyn family. There is an ancient chapel at Oakwood. Some bequests have been left to the poor. John Evelyn, a …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… dressings are of stone. The roof of the nave is covered with slate, and that of the aisle with lead; the other roofs are tiled. Parts of the N. walls … The Vestry is modern. The Organ-chamber is modern, but has some old detail re-set in it. In the E. wall is a window, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… of the parish. The walls are of septariarubble and brick with dressings of limestone; the roofs are tiled. The Nave … outer continuous and the inner resting on attached shafts with moulded capitals. The Nave (42 ft. by 18 ft.) has in the … thatched. It was built early in the 17th century and has some exposed ceiling-beams. ConditionGood. Colchester, Holy …
A History of the County of Rutland
… North; Luffenham, South; Morcott; Pilton; Seaton with Thorpe-by-Water; Stoke Dry; Tixover The parishes of … (Wiceslea) had become part of Rutland by 1129 and probably some years earlier (see account of the County), but the … the Earl of Warwick. 8 From this time the hundred passed with the manor of Barrowden (q.v.) and now belongs to the …