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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… who, after a judicial combat at Salisbury, was executed for high treason, was lord of the principal part of this … of the Duke of Beaufort: the tithes have been commuted for 327. 12.; there is a parsonage-house, and the glebe … patron, the Rev. W. W. Dickens: the tithes were commuted for land and annual money payments in 1788. The church is a …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… of a Mannor which defore the Conquest Vlsi had, who paid for it to the Dane-geld after the rate of a carucat and an half. The Land was then for twelve oxen, or twelve bovats. 1 There afterwards Warner … which Roger had a Charter of Free Warren the same year for Wallaton and Cossale in this County, Eyum and Riselle in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… small streams on part of the north, and field boundaries for the rest. The extra-parochial area of Godstow (411 a.), … 34 and remained independent of St. Peter's and of Oxford for all but ecclesiastical purposes. The north and east … through the site of Godstow abbey, to the west of the old navigation stream, and a pound lock was built at its lower …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Helmsley to Kirkby-Moorside. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans. John Stockton, in 1839, left 10 per annum for the instruction of children. Wombourn (St. Benedict) … the township of Little Smeaton, and met the new line of navigation made by the Aire and Calder Company. The road from …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… unrealistically low: a cottage rented from the estate for £2 was sublet for £6 10 s., and five cottages with a … the local mining industry: c. 1730 an atmospheric pumping engine was installed at Wombridge, and by the time of his … Richard Hartshorne had installed a Coalbrookdale pumping engine at Wombridge c. 1730, it was only in the late 18th and …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Collins, vicar 1872-8, 52 tried in vain to raise money for a new church school at Ketley Bank where 250 children … chairman. 54 The National school was offered to the board for a nominal rent but the board rejected the managers' … High School; it was approved by the county council for minor scholarship holders and still existed in 1910. 61 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… from one of the few pump wells. Soft water was bought for washing. Ketley Bank was as ill-supplied as Oakengates. … Redhill reservoir fed from Hilton (Staffs.). 39 For a time, before 1946, Ketley Bank was supplied with water … boxes' containing hoses, etc., in 1916; the nearest fire engine was then at Wellington. 45 After the Second World War …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… at harvest time. 12 Customary tenements were held by copy for three lives but tenancies at will were also recorded in … animals. 17 The most likely use of common of pasture was for sheep; a shepherd was recorded at Woodchester in 1327 18 and in 1500 a tenant was presented for overburdening the common with sheep. 19 The banks of the …
A History of the County of Essex
… still survives in this area. A local board was formed for the parish in 1873. In 1934 the urban district was … of middle class city workers. Streets of houses built for them, and later ribbon development, joined up the … serves the greater part of Woodford. 126 A fire-engine was purchased about 1820 and kept at the workhouse. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 78 The development of self-government was only gradual, for the vill was merely one of several 'members' of the royal … a small pest house in 1720, contributed towards a fire engine in 17467, and by raising loans was able to participate … hall, 96 and by 1686 the hall also accomodated the fire engine. 97 In 1713 Sir John Vanbrugh and Henry Joynes …