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A History of the County of Middlesex
… West Drayton Economic and social history ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL … Until the 19th century the economic history of West Drayton is almost exclusively agrarian. No industrial … of sources, more is known about the farming of the West Drayton manorial demesne than of any other lands in the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… West Drayton Introduction WEST DRAYTON The ancient parish of West Drayton lies almost at the western extremity of Middlesex. 1 …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… West Drayton Local government LOCAL GOVERNMENT. At the end of the … Paul's claimed various liberties in their manor of West Drayton, including view of frankpledge and the assize of … Records of such courts are preserved to 1760. 25 In 1464 Drayton or Colham Garden manor was granted a court leet and …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… West Drayton Manors MANORS. In the 12th century the dean and chapter claimed that ten manse at WEST DRAYTON had been given by Athelstan to the cathedral church … to have been in possession by about 1000, when West Drayton supplied one of a number of 'shipmen' for a muster …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… West Drayton Mills MILLS Drayton water-mill, belonging to the manor, was mentioned in … the same site, a short distance upstream from Drayton Point, at the confluence of Drayton Stream and the Cowley Stream or Frays River. This …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… West Drayton Other estates OTHER ESTATES. The estate called … 16th century, with the greater part of its lands in West Drayton open fields. The estate was built up in the first … who died about 1549. By 1540 Burnell had united two West Drayton estates, called Palmers and Fitzhughs, totalling 120 …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… West Drayton Protestant nonconformity PROTESTANT NONCONFORMITY. … said to be ten nonconformists and 166 conformists in West Drayton in 1676, 56 but the sect or sects to which the … in a public dispute at the 'public meeting place, West Drayton', with a number of the local clergy, including Philip …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… West Drayton Roman catholicism and old catholics ROMAN CATHOLICISM … no evidence for organized Roman Catholic worship in West Drayton before the 19th century. The churchwardens were … Catholic parish was coextensive with the Yiewsley and West Drayton Urban District, and was estimated to contain 1,300 …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… West Drayton Schools SCHOOLS. At some time between 1723 and 1748 there was a church school at West Drayton, serving the parishes of Harmondsworth and West Drayton, 72 and several children of the schoolmaster, Richard …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… bov ad geld. Soc in Farne, and one bov. ad geld. Soc in Drayton. The land half a car. There three sochm. had two car. … age at the death of his mother. 10 Thomas Rayner of East Drayton, and Emme his wife, 7 H. 6. by fine passed to John, son of Henry de Drayton, and to Alice his wife, one mess. twenty six acres of …