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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… which formerly had been built on a multiplicity of crafts and trading activities, gradually came to depend upon the … all probability much greater than it had been in the past, and the affairs of the town were henceforth largely dominated … John Rodman, Mayor of Wilton in 1462; Richard Crede, farmer of the fulling mill at Washern, was elected burgess in …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Wilton Markets, fairs, agriculture and mills MARKETS AND FAIRS The existence of a market in Wilton probably dates … 1 The right to hold markets weekly on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday was granted to the borough at least as early as …
The Environs of London
… name of this place, which was anciently written Wymbaldon and Wymbeldon, was derived from one of its early proprietors. … Saxon language signifies a hill. Situation, boundaries, and extent. Wimbledon lies in the western division of Brixton … in the parish. This gentleman, who is a very scientific farmer, has introduced upon his premises one of the …
A History of the County of Somerset
… of Wincanton lies in the south-east part of the county and at its centre is the largest town of the district. 81 The parish is divided between one principal and three smaller areas, and many very small pieces of land … market but by the 1760s were not very profitable and the farmer regularly had his rent abated. 21 In the 19th century …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… chalk down-land. Roman roads approach it from all sides, and the Itchen while navigable brought it into touch with Southampton, and so with the centres of continental trade. The present … MSS. in the mayor's parlour at the Gildhall records how Farmer John Edwards, 'a tall lusty fellow,' who was resting …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… owed its first beginnings to its important geographical and political status 3 rather than to any deliberate trade … before or only after the Conquest it was only a part, and at first not necessarily a vital part of the borough … reign of Henry II and Richard I it was the sheriff, or a farmer under him, who rendered the farm, and in the eyes of …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… The romantic legends told by Froissart of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table at Windsor lack the … early history of Windsor which were current in the 14th and 15th centuries. 1 During the Saxon period, when Edward … family on the terrace, 'the good king, in his light grey farmer-like morning Windsor uniform, walking arm in arm with …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… miles (N. N. W.) from Newbury; containing 337 inhabitants, and comprising 2084 a. 26 p. The chapel is dedicated to St. … tithes have been commuted for 530, the vicarial for 200, and there is a glebe of 16 acres. A school is endowed with 10 … A market, granted by Henry III., was formerly held here; and a fair is still kept on St. Martin's day. The living is a …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… OF PARSON DROVE Parson Drove, originally a township and chapelry of Leverington, became a separate ecclesiastical … Rectory Act (1870). It had long maintained its own poor, 1 and its separate existence for civil purposes was virtually … end of Leverington; it has no separate manorial history, and may be compared in status with Gedney Hill over the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Hundred Elm ELM Elm, on the Norfolk border between Wisbech and Outwell, is one of the larger parishes in the Isle. It … shape usually found in Wisbech hundred, with the church and village on the firm silt land at the north-east end, just … The alterations made under the county Review Order of 1933 and the Ministry of Health Provisional Orders Confirmation …