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Old and New London
… mountain by moonlight; rope and hornpipe-dancing; a forest, with the humours of lion-catching; tumbling by the …
A History of the County of Essex
… clear from these details that both manors were only small forest hamlets. Wanstead manor, which was the more densely … The wealth of woodland and the restrictions imposed by the forest laws largely determined the economic life of the … 1796 some 70 per cent of the parish was still woodland or forest waste, 7 and even in 1841 the figure was over 40 per …
A History of the County of Essex
… Sir James Long, Bt., for leave to build a school on the forest waste of the manor. 5 Presumably the school was then …
A History of the County of Essex
… century Wanstead retained much woodland, part of Epping Forest, small patches of which still survive at Bushwood and … populated rural parish on the southern fringe of Epping Forest. In 1086 the total recorded population of the two … large houses at Snaresbrook, and cottages at Mobs Hole, a forest-side hamlet later called Nightingale Green. 27 …
A History of the County of Essex
… to work in the parish gravel-pits, on the roads, in the forest, or on local farms. From 1831 onwards more money was …
A History of the County of Essex
… corporation of London for preservation as part of Epping Forest. 82 His family sold the rest of the park in 1920 to … D/DCy F2. Kelly's Dir. Essex (1886); E.R. vii. 229; Epping Forest Map (1882). G. Berridge, The First Century, 39; …
A History of the County of Essex
… church was founded about 1865 by Free Methodists from Forest Gate. 64 The church, and the old hall behind it, were … circuit, from which it passed to the Fifth London (or Forest Gate) circuit. It was later transferred successively … to the Walthamstow circuit and the Leytonstone and Forest Gate circuit. 68 Wanstead Baptist church, Wellington …
The Environs of London
… to the south. It contains (exclusive of its share of the forest) about 600 acres of land; about 100 of which are … he calls the Southern Iceningstreet. It passed over the forest, and crossed the river Rodon at Ilford 1. About 300 … being then on a visit to Mr. Stonard at Loughton in the forest 18. This great Earl died in the year 1588, much …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… the S.E. part of the parish, on the edge of Whittlewood Forest, was part of them. Ridge-and-furrow may be seen on the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Wardens of the Forest and Constables of St. Briavels WARDENS OF THE FOREST OF DEAN AND CONSTABLES OF ST. BRIAVELS By 1207 the keepers or wardens ( custodes) of the Forest under the Crown also had the style of constable of St. …