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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… a parish covering 2,700 acres, lies in the S. part of the Isle of Purbeck, 3 miles W. of Swanage. It stretches … flat limestone tableland formed by the underlying Portland and Purbeck Beds, between 350 ft. and 450 ft. above O.D., drained by three deeply cut valleys …
A History of the County of Sussex
… WORTHING The Present article 51 deals with the history of Worthing hamlet until c. 1800, and thereafter with that of the town as it was enlarged by … changes recorded above. Broadwater, Durrington, Heene, and West Tarring are, however, all dealt with from c. 1900 …
A History of the County of Sussex
… 27 Humphrys' alms-houses were founded in 1858 by Robert and Ann Humphrys in memory of their son Harry, for Anglican married couples, widows, or … land, a £78 yearly rent-charge to pay weekly allowances, and £1,000 stock for maintenance. Two more houses were built …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Worthing Communications Communications. The hamlet of Worthing before c. 1800 was linked to Broadwater by a road following the line of the modern road, and by a footpath leading north from the north end of the … Street. The line of the latter was still followed by roads and a footpath in 1978. The Worthing-Broadwater road led to …
A History of the County of Sussex
… List of maps and plans Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. … held by 7 alodial tenants. In 1086 it comprised 9 hides and had land for three plough-teams. The demesne was … Broadwater manor were named in Worthing, 14 of whom owed a corn-rent called 'parkseycorn', usually paid in barley. By …
A History of the County of Sussex
… in Worthing were apparently for visitors' children, and by 1811 there were one academy and two seminaries. 93 Such institutions and their … four day schools and three boarding schools for a total of 161 boys and 71 girls who were taught at their parents' …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Worthing Local government and public services LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC SERVICES Manor Court books of Worthing manor's court baron survive from 1544 to 1925. 91 …
A History of the County of Sussex
… a separate parliamentary constituency, 70 having been part of the Worthing division of the county since 1945. 71 It has always returned … p. 34, H.C. (1944-5), iv. The Times, Ho. of Commons (1950 and later edns.). …
A History of the County of Sussex
… nonconformity PROTESTANT NONCONFORMITY. The Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion, after an unsuccessful attempt to … had two houses registered for worship in Worthing in 1800 and 1803. 84 The Independent, later Congregational, chapel in … Countess of Huntingdon (1839), i. 365. G.R.O. Worship Returns, Chich. archdeac. nos. 11, 16; N. Caplan, 'Outline of …
A History of the County of Rutland
… Wrandike hundred THE HUNDRED OF WRANDIKE containing the parishes of Barrowden; Bisbrooke; … to in the Northamptonshire Geld Roll of about 1075, and the southern portion of the Wapentake of Wiceslea in the … of Witchley (Wiceslea) had become part of Rutland by 1129 and probably some years earlier (see account of the County), …