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A History of the County of Shropshire
… there were said to be 38 a. of wood in Wombridge, worth 10 s. an acre. 8 Among the coppices in the later 17th and 18th … 11 Four or five ploughteams belonged to William Charlton's Wombridge tenants in the years 1693-8; most of the parish's … (copy in S.P.L.); Rep. R. Com. Mkt. Rights, xiii (2), 433; Hudson, Munby: Man of Two Worlds, 418; S.R.O. 2108/7; cf. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… among the more notorious entertainments, and the county's last baiting was reputedly at the 1833 wake. 56 As late as … races and athletic competitions were held south of Pain's Lane in the mid to late 19th century during the wakes, 58 … ii. 192; T.S.A.S. xlix. 24. Trinder, op. cit. 214-15; D. Hudson, Munby: Man of Two Worlds (1972), 418. G.M. James, …
Alumni Oxonienses
… Woodall, William 1600. See Woodhall. Woodarde, Nicholas s. Christopher, of Mechlen in Flanders, gent. Magdalen Hall, … New England, 1642 (its first graduate), said to be S.T.D.; a minister in Salisbury, and at Newbury, Berks, … See Foster's Index Eccl. Wormeley, Ralph s. Ralph, of York River, Virginia, arm. Oriel Coll., matric. entry 14 July, …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… with the supposed kiln at Little Britain, noted on p. 81, S.V. Minchinhampton. (1) Roman Villa (SO 83970311), under and adjacent to a former church, now in ruins (map, p. 81, s.v. Minchinhampton), was excavated by Samuel Lysons in 17936 … shelf in the Great Oolite, is bounded on the E. by the river valley and on N. and S. by re-entrant gulleys; on the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… E. division of the county of Gloucester, 2 miles (S. W.) from Stroud; containing 908 inhabitants. This place is … to the Society of Antiquaries by Samuel Lysons, Esq., F.S.A., who published an elaborate account of these relics in … of a rising ground, skirted at the bottom by the river Roden, finely interspersed with trees, and disclosing …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… manor passed to his son, also John, 52 who held a knight's fee at Woodchester in 1285. 53 John died in 1297 and was … forfeited temporarily in 1322 as a result of his son John's rebellion. 55 In 1338 the elder John settled the manor in … by a younger son called Edmund, who was seised of a knight's fee at Woodchester in 1346, 59 until Edmund's brother John …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… between Salisbury and Amesbury, on the western side of the River Avon. The parish is bounded on the east by the winding … includes buildings on each side of the road at Druid's Lodge, in the extreme north-west of the parish. In 1951 the … a 'chapel' and may have been the site of the former bishop's residence, pulled down in the early 16th century. 13 Avon …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… between the R. Nene and Cranford Brook, on land rising S.W. from 100 ft. to 280 ft. above OD. The higher S.W. part is on Boulder Clay, but along the valley sides … 98687710; Fig. 117; Plate 4), S.E. of Woodford Grange, on River Gravel at 100 ft. above OD, close to the R. Nene. Air …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… between 120 m. and 135 m. above OD. On either side of the river the land rises across undulating clayland to a number … on a high N.-facing spur, and Hinton stands immediately S.W. of it on the opposite side of the river on lower ground. Further S.W., also W. of the Cherwell, is West Farndon (2). Although …
A History of the County of Essex
… tenants had fallen to seven. The 26 a. of meadow by the river accounts for the large number of 100 sheep. There were … paid a money rent 8 and sent one man to work in the lord's meadow at hay-time and two or three men to the boon works, … that the water pent up for Sir Bernard Whetstone's mill flooded the highway. 24 By 1635 the mill had been …