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Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… industry of a large number of people. It is the outcome of field work by over four hundred persons, organised by some … by the senior editors, coordinators and volunteers, or of the hundreds of hours expended freely by Arthur and … out by Mrs Anne Law. The following donors contributed 500 or more to the Dictionary appeal. Their help was especially …
The Church in London, 1375-1392
… (Netheravene), and John de Bisshoppeston rector, chaplain, or warden of the chapel of Sheering (Shyryng), London … (Wymyngton), Lincoln diocese, and Robert Lamborne (or Lambourne) rector of Wimbish (Wymbissh), London diocese. … of land in the parish of Datchworth (Thachworth) in the field called 'Pynpeford', in Hertfordshire, along with the …
The Environs of London
… About half a mile to the north of the village, in a field called the Moated Meadow, is a deep trench, inclosing a … they held under the convent at the annual rent of 2 s. or a sparrowhawk 18. I suppose the site of this estate to have been at or near the hamlet called Friar's, or Prior's Place. John de …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Alcaston, and Henley, was ever more than a small village or hamlet. Quinny or Marsh brook marks the central part of the parish's … the Tower to Sir Edward Acton, lord of the manor. 61 The field called the Tower Yard is just north of the church. 62 …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Road, known as Willesden Lane in 1842, to join Norwood or Green Lane at the boundary and lead thence to the Harrow … another from the end of the green in the middle of Church field. As it left Church field the path formed a lane, … between Notting Hill and Acton that the bishop of London or his tenant at Wormholt farm, Hammersmith, was liable to …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… ECONOMIC HISTORY. Agrarian history. Agrarian History The field system of the five-hide holding that became the … all the land was held of Acton manor in free socage or by copy of court roll, forming nucleated settlements at Church Acton and East Acton, with 4 or 5 open arable fields and inclosed meadow and pasture. In …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… also two boarding schools for tradesmen's children and two or three other small schools. 38 In 1833 there were c. 100 … poor and many older pupils had to go outside the parish or to private schools. More than half of the secondary places … in the parish for the children of tradesmen, and two or three other small schools. 33 They may have been the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… the late 13th century. The main settlement, Church Acton or Acton town, lay slightly west of the centre of the parish … Acton most of the farmhouses lay along the Oxford road or Horn Lane, with only a few outlying farms. Friars Place … other purchases between 1860 and 1868: land in Church field adjoining Uxbridge Road and the N.L.R. line, a small …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… flows south-eastward south of Berrymead and across South field into Hammersmith, where it joins the eastern branch of …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… 14 and were taken at Fulham on the Sunday after Hocktide or another day generally in April. In 1750, and occasionally … All the courts for Acton apparently were held in Fulham or Hammersmith. Court baron business continued to be recorded … who had erected six small houses on his strip in Church field, and won confirmation of common rights, 51 and it …