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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… probably dates from the 14th century. Late in the 15th or early in the 16th century the North Porch was added and … much of the outer rampart and ditch has been obliterated or severely damaged, especially by ploughing, drainage and … garden. Limited excavations were carried out in 1921 by Heywood Sumner. Trial trenches in the W. half of the interior …
Alumni Oxonienses
… B.A. from Queen's Coll. 1677. Westbrook, Hugh (Wesbroke or Wethebroke) B.A. 18 July, 1519. [ 25] Westbrooke, Marke of … 1603-4, M.A. 1607, and incorporated 12 March, 1607-8; B.D. or D.D. from Magdalen Coll. 18 May, 1631; rector of St. … See Foster's Graduati Cantab. Whitbey, Thomas s. Tho., of Heywood, co. Stafford, gent. Trinity Coll., matric. 26 July, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… after 1086 had come into existence as separate estates or manors. The manor of Westbury with Brook then comprised a … On the other half, later called Westbury Seymour or St. Maur, 19 there was a grange, an ox-house, and a … consolidated estates as did Abraham Ludlow, of Heywood House, and John Whitaker, of Fairwood, there were a …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 19th century when new churches were built at Dilton Marsh, Heywood, Chapmanslade, and Westbury Leigh. 86 Between 1109 … Cathedral 87 and the rectory was probably immediately, or shortly afterwards, appropriated to the office of … the estate in Westbury later known as Rectory, Parsonage, or Chantry manor. 98 In 1342 the rectory was valued at £36 16 …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… men were no doubt only in a small way of business, but one or two were among the more important Wiltshire clothiers of … Matravers, who acquired as his country residence in 1789 Heywood House, sometime seat of the lords of the manor of … Westbury's Inclosure Award small plots of land adjoining or in front of their cottages. 18 In 1840 there were still …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… were the later civil parishes of Bratton, Dilton Marsh, Heywood, and part of Chapmanslade. It remained a single … 1334 there were besides the town of Westbury eleven vills or tithings liable for taxation. These were Bratton, … the 19th century; Penleigh remained a distinct hamlet or tithing until the end of the 17th century when it was …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… to Monkton Farleigh. 78 This estate called SEWELLS or SHEWELLS probably originated in the holding of the family … of Westbury. 79 In 1341 lands and rent in Westbury, Heywood, Bratton, and Leigh were settled upon Walter Sewale … Ley who was seised of it, then apparently called Shewells or Sewells, at the time of his death in 1629. 85 The exact …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… and Bremeridge. 47 Other unrecorded grants by Henry II or his predecessors gave rise to the manors of Leigh, … various gifts, were known as the manors of Godswell and Heywood. 50 The capital manor of Westbury, after its … fee. 56 The manor at that time comprised the four estates or hamlets of Brook, Headinghill, Stoke, and Dilton. 57 It …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… owned mills at Hawkeridge and Chalford. 84 Angel Mill, or its site at the junction of Church and Maristow Streets, … there is another mill on the Bitham Brook in the parish of Heywood. This is Blenches Mill, a corn mill at the end of the … of Westbury Mauduits, 4 to the clothier Thomas Lawrence, or Saunders, 5 who died seised of it in 1602. 6 His son …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… manors of the Wessex kingdom, Westbury developed urban or semiurban institutions at a comparatively early date. … tax lists distinguish between the tithing or township of Westbury on the one hand, and the borough of … Chapmanslade, and Bratton, including Hawkeridge and Heywood. 30 Dilton, and, it may be presumed, Bratton also, 31 …