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A History of the County of Shropshire
… WOMBRIDGE, LATER OAKENGATES Communications, p. 284. Growth of Settlement, p. 285. Social and Cultural Activities, p. … Services, p. 297. Churches, p. 298. Nonconformity, p. 301. Education, p. 302. Charities for the Poor, p. 306. Wombridge parish developed out of the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wombridge Local government LOCAL GOVERNMENT. Records of Wombridge court baron survive from 1697, 1708, 1711, 1717, and 1747, the matters dealt with being mainly agricultural. 12 The … Ketley Bank Board School though their parents paid no education rate. The town's principal street, Market Street, …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Nonconformity NONCONFORMITY. Wombridge. William Charlton of Wombridge (d. 1567) was reputed a papist or sympathizer with papists. 22 Samuel Campion, the minister ejected from Hodnet in 1660, held Sunday … expanding population. 24 C. R. Cameron, perpetual curate of Wombridge 1808-56, resisted the nonconformists 25 and, …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES. As almost everywhere in the coalfield the alehouse was an integral and ever present part of the community. There was an alehouse at Ketley Bank in … in Oakengates. 52 In the earlier 19th century the number of public houses grew as the town expanded, and in 1846 the …
Alumni Oxonienses
… 1600. See Woodhall. Woodarde, Nicholas s. Christopher, of Mechlen in Flanders, gent. Magdalen Hall, matric. 9 Oct., 1635, aged 18. [ 5] Woodbridge, Benjamin of Wilts, sacerd. Magdalen Hall, matric. 9 Nov., 1638, aged … for nonconformity, chaplain to Charles II., silenced by the act of conformity; died at Inglefield, Berks, 1 Nov., …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woodchester Education EDUCATION. St. Loe charity school, founded in 1699 … will dated 1705, left £400 to pay three or four poor women of the parish to teach girls. By 1718 the sum had increased to …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… in 1735 and in 1750, but no group had a chapel in the parish. 4 A house was registered for protestant dissenters in 1758 and a number of houses were used by unidentified groups in the earlier …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Woodditton WOODDITTON Woodditton lies immediately south of Newmarket, 8 a town established c. 1200 astride the road forming the parish boundary between Woodditton and … bounds were beaten along the frontages on the south side of Newmarket High Street. 10 Newmarket was separated from its …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Church CHURCH. Woodditton parish church stands by the presumed site of Ditton Valence manor house, 11 whose lords probably founded it. Droard son of Cade gave it to Thetford priory (Norf.) in the early 12th …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Woodditton Education EDUCATION. Occasional classes taught by curates in the early 19th century 78 were superseded in 1847 by a … enlarged in 1872 80 and 1899. 81 The school taught pupils of secondary age until c. 1960, 82 then only juniors, and was …