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A History of the County of Stafford
… Winshill was transformed in the mid 19th century from a secluded settlement into a large village with extensive … Easter Book probably of the 1550s was 84. 2 The township's population in 1801 was 309, rising to 357 by 1821, falling … 10/2903. Place-Names of Derb. iii (E.P.N.S. xxix), 669. B.L. Stowe Ch. 81; below, econ. hist. (agric.). S.R.O., D. (W.) …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Winshill Manor Manor Winshill was included in Wulfric Spot's endowment of Burton abbey 1002 x 1004, 10 and in 1086 the … 12th century for 'the land of the men' held 'in defence', meaning land which was taxable by the Crown. 12 Winshill became a tithing in Burton manor, and after the dissolution of the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wirswall Winterburn, with Flasby WINTERBURN, with Flasby, a township, in the parish of Gargrave, union of Skipton, E. division of the wapentake … a little wood. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 28, and in the gift of the Rev. T. F. R. Read, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… are absolutely continuous, so that it is impossible for a stranger to tell where one ends and the other begins. … through these and neighbouring parishes. Such are Popham's Eau, an early 17thcentury cut to guide the waters of the … Mon. ii, 577. Feud. Aids, iii, 450. Dugd., Mon. ii, 590. L. & P. Hen. VIII, xxi (1), g. 1383 (81). Blomefield, Hist. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Tydd St. Mary in Lincolnshire. This stream has shrunk to a shadow of its former self but is an important boundary, … Tydd, has been known since the 17th century as Lady Nunn's Old Eau, from the wife of a 14th-century Tydd landowner. 1 … two daughters and coheirs, of whom Dorothy married Hamond L'Estrange of Hunstanton, brother of the first baronet. The …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Charities CHARITIES 68 The charities of Wisbech are very considerable, as is the case with most … respect of the inn; this piece of land was let at £10 15 s. in 1851. In 1802 the Corporation sold the inn for £1,615 … was to be one). The towns were to make loans of £20, to a maximum of £200, to young men to enable them to set up in …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… of London and 40 from Cambridge by road. It is one of a series of settlements spaced at two- to three-mile … St. Mary). The fact that the three obtained £1, 15 s., and 10 s. respectively in a division of certain … Bp. Alcock's Terrier (Peckover MSS., Wisb. Mus.). R. W. L. Melbourne, 'The Function of Wisbech in relation to its …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… occurs c. 1000, when Oswy and Leoflede, on the admission of their son Aelfwin as a monk, gave the vill to the monastery of Ely. 54 In 1086 … wealthiest of the Ely manors, its value (£6 T.R.E., 100 s. in 1086) being below that of Ely itself and of more than …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… and conventicles were held in Wisbech at the house of Thomas Bouth. 81 The Baptists are the first sect to be … brethren at Wisbech at the invitation of John Milles, a member of the Wisbech congregation, of which at the same … as a prominent centre of Nonconformity in Bishop Compton's 'census' of 1676, which enumerated only 12 Dissenters here …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… - Witherstone Witcham (St. Martin) WITCHAM ( St. Martin), a parish, in the hundred of South Witchford, union and Isle … inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, valued in the king's books at 8. 11. 0.; net. income, 100; patrons and … on the road from Louth to Alford, and comprises 2415 a. l r. 13 p. It was formerly a seat of the Fitzwilliams, and a …