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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (W.) from Cricklade; containing, with the chapelry of Leigh, 1332 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, valued in … impropriator, J. Pitt, Esq. There is a chapel of ease at Leigh. Ashton, Long (All Saints) ASHTON, LONG ( All Saints), …
History Theses 1970-2014: Historical research for higher degrees in the universities of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland
… family in colonial north India, c.1780-1930. Denault, Leigh Ph.D., Cambridge. Chronological coverage: 17801930 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… S.) from Burford; containing, with the hamlet of Asthall-Leigh, 389 inhabitants. This place was formerly the residence … ASTLEY, a district chapelry, in the parish and union of Leigh, hundred of West Derby, S. division of Lancashire, 3 miles (E.) from the town of Leigh; containing 2011 inhabitants. This township comprises …
A History of the County of Oxford
… fields were apparently associated with Asthall Leigh by the early 13th century, 6 and lay respectively between Kitesbridge farm and Asthall Leigh village, and between Worsham mill and Standridge copse. 7 They were called Leigh and Mead field in 1627, 8 the former being renamed Wood …
A History of the County of Oxford
… ha.) and contained the villages of Asthall and Asthall Leigh, the hamlets of Field Assarts, Worsham, and Stonelands, … Swinbrook, and c. 34 a. north-west and north of Asthall Leigh and two houses in Fordwells were transferred from … 9 In the extreme north-west the parish included part of Leigh Hale Plain, which was common pasture until inclosure in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… before 1662, the manor's tenants at Asthall and Asthall Leigh belonged to separate tithings. 8 A court baron for the reputed manor of Asthall Leigh (formerly belonging to the More family), held in the … origin. Parish Government and Officers Asthall and Asthall Leigh each had a constable in 1662, 10 and in the early 19th …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Middle Ages two more were created, both based on Asthall Leigh and each having a chief house. One was formed in the … Asthall manor; it was called a manor from 1343 (Asthall Leigh manor). The other, a large freehold, was created in the … century by the accumulation of smaller holdings (Asthall Leigh freehold). The late medieval pattern continued until …
A History of the County of Oxford
… century when Primitive Methodists became active at Asthall Leigh. They built a chapel at Fordwells in 1862. In the late … exerted more effort: a chapel was opened at Asthall Leigh in 1861, a new vicarage house was built in 18735, and … The Methodist chapel closed in 1970, and the Asthall Leigh chapel in 1974. The cure was served from a neighbouring …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Atherton ATHERTON, a chapelry, in the parish and union of Leigh, hundred of West Derby, S. division of the county of … 12 miles (W. by N.) from Manchester, and on the road from Leigh to Bolton; containing, with the village of Chowbent, …
Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum
… of Chester, William Iunce, Maior, John Aldersey, Peter Leigh and William Edwards, Merch ts. CORNWALL. For the County … Sir John Compton, Sir Richard Kingsmill Knights; Sir John Leigh, Rob: Dillington, Rob. Wallop, Richard Whitehead, Rich. … Morton, John Birch, Ralph Rudiard, Michael Low, and Edward Leigh, Esquires; Sir Walter Wrottesley, Sir Edward Littleton, …