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A History of the County of Shropshire
… 1816. The number of immigrant workers in Wombridge led to numerous settlement disputes. 19 Wombridge was included in … a new water supply were held up. Wombridge ratepayers had to deal with sewage and industrial effluent flowing in from … The creation of Oakengates urban district in 1898 helped to improve municipal government, the U.D. comprising the …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… sope ashes; wood or soap-ashes; wood ass; wood ashes] Not to be confused with WEED ASH, these are the residues of ASHES from burning WOOD. This crude form of POTASH had to be processed to concentrate the content of potassium and … was regarded traditionally as the most important of all British industries, and as such was the most highly …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… Park (SO 8101) in 1850. 1 A coin of Germanicus and Romano-British pottery found in 1863 in the long barrow on Bown Hill, at SO 82300180, was taken to Cheltenham College Museum. 2 The alleged site 3 of the … the villa (1), about mile distant from it, is perhaps to be equated with the supposed kiln at Little Britain, noted …
A History of the County of Essex
… school of industry. By 1818 attendance had fallen from 90 to 69 and some supporters withdrew their subscriptions on the … that age, and that the curriculum should be confined to reading, writing, and only a little arithemetic. 5 The … their Mill Lane chapel. This building was also used for a British school formed in 1854, 21 which in 1859 had 85 pupils …
A History of the County of Essex
… the urban district was amalgamated with that of Wanstead, to the south, and in 1937 the borough of Wanstead and … Road. From this the parish slopes gently eastwards down to the river Roding. The soil is mainly London clay, with … comprised widely separated hamlets. 29 At Church End the British Land Co., which had bought the Woodford Hall estate …
A History of the County of Essex
… Edward the Confessor confirmed Harold's grant of lands to the canons of Waltham Holy Cross. 1 The boundaries of the … stretched westwards from Angrices burne (the river Roding) to ealdermannes hcce and cynges hcce. If the last was … 1848. 50 In 1869 the Woodford Hall estate was sold to the British Land Co. for building development. The house was used …
A History of the County of Essex
… 1 In 1191 the Pope assigned this church, among others, to the use of the sacristy at Waltham. 2 What exactly was … by this measure is uncertain. The benefice does not seem to have been appropriated, even temporarily, and its … It became after 1837 in succession a Wesleyan chapel, a British school, a Workmen's hall, and an Anglican mission …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… Woodmancote WOODMANCOTE No Iron Age or Romano-British monument is known in this parish. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the town prospered, acquiring a fair in addition to its original market, 66 but it remained a small community … the George (later the Marlborough Arms), belonged in 1279 to one of the leading townsmen, Adam Bennet. 69 Property was … on total wealth of only c. 38. 74 Population seems to have declined in the later Middle Ages, and in the early …
A History of the County of Somerset
… was almost rectangular in shape measuring 3 km. from north to south and 2.5 km. from east to west. Its northern and eastern boundaries were marked by … of the parish and there is extensive evidence of Romano-British occupation in several places, some unidentified, …