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A Survey of Documentary Sources for Property Holding in London before the Great Fire
… Research for this survey was undertaken as part of the work of the Social and Economic Study of Medieval London, funded by the Social Science Research …
Survey of London
… Acknowledgments Acknowledgments In the preparation of this volume assistance has been received by the Council in … in the chapter describing the Albert Memorial. The study of the Royal Archives was greatly facilitated by the help of … of Arts; Royal Institute of British Architects; Royal School of Needlework; Scottish Record Office; Messrs. Daniel …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ACKWORTH ( St. Cuthbert), a parish, in the Upper division of the wapentake of Osgoldcross, W. riding of York, 3 miles … and repair. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans. The school here belonging to the Society of Friends was … in the gift of Viscount Combermere; net income, 100. A grammar school is endowed with 16 per annum, and a house; and …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… (1,934 a., 783 ha.) 1 is a long, roughly rectangular tract of countryside running down from the south-facing slopes … the Hall in the mid 19th century 46 and the building of a school, again in ornate timber framing, in 1866. 47 In the … None known. EDUCATION. In 1793 children went to school in Hatton, Church Stretton, and Wistanstow, 78 but by …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… In 1725 almshouses were built in the Steyne on the site of a house which the parish had bought in 1681 for the poor. … thereupon granted some copyhold tenements on the west side of the Steyne, where six cottages were built for the poor 67 … cheap coal until c. 1812 and then on building the National school. The clothing fund had an income of £85 in 1826, from …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… dedicated to St. Mary existed by 1231, when Walter, rector of Acton, held a house from Peter FitzAlulf. 82 The church … attendance in the morning averaged 550, with 90 Sunday school children, there were 700 free sittings and 50 others, … dist., district; ho., house; min., minister; sch., school; temp., temporary; V., vicar. Lond. Gaz. 27 June 1873, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… churchwardens until 1816 and thereafter into the National school funds. 32 The rector, William Antrobus, in 1805 offered to assist the foundation of a school for the poor; 33 nothing further was mentioned, … had had to go outside the parish. 54 In 1906 the county grammar school for boys was opened, in which Acton boys made …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Growth GROWTH. Prehistoric settlement is attested by finds of palaeolithic and neolithic Bronze-Age burials at Mill Hill … of Berrymead Priory, with the building of the infants' school in 1837, Oldham's Terrace, and the National school. The larger houses in the town began to outlive their …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. The manor of ACTON was a division of the bishop of London's manor of … father, but was sold in 1837; 66 it was later used as a school. Thomas Thorney, barber-surgeon of London, bought the … the house and adjoining land to the Clergy Orphans' school. The school occupied the house until 1812. 91 In 1834 …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… church. 37 He observed that the Independent ministries of Philip Nye, 1643-56, and Thomas Elford, 1656-61, had … registered another house for worship and a Sunday school in the western end of the parish. 43 In 1817 … meeting; Presb., Presbyterian; reg., registered; sch., school; Wes., Wesleyan. Guildhall MS. 9580/4; Ealing …