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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 55 In 1545 the clothier John Adlam acquired the manor of Leigh Priors, formerly among the possessions of the Prior of … John Lyde (fl. 1694), 87 both sergeweavers. At Westbury Leigh there were John Paineter, weaver (fl. c. 1633), 88 and … oppressed by the rich clothiers. Two brothers of Westbury Leigh, clothiers and justices, were accused in particular of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Brook, Penleigh, Bremeridge, Dilton Marsh, and Westbury Leigh in the west and south, and Chapmanslade in the extreme … the purposes of taxation until the 17th century. Westbury Leigh was probably a suburb of Westbury town from early … Hawkeridge, Brook with Mauduits, Westbury Leversage, Leigh Priors, Leigh Marsh (Westbury Leigh), and Bremeridge. 9 …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… and the hamlets of Headinghill, Stoke, Melborne, and Leigh, i.e. Joan and Eleanor's share of Sir John Pavely's … to John Adlam, who at that date acquired the manor of Leigh Priors which had also formerly belonged to Monkton … In 1341 lands and rent in Westbury, Heywood, Bratton, and Leigh were settled upon Walter Sewale and Emma his wife with …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… formed the manors later known as Westbury Mauduits, Leigh Priors, Westbury Leversage, and Bremeridge. 47 Other … by Henry II or his predecessors gave rise to the manors of Leigh, Penleigh, and Bratton. 48 What was left after all … with the hamlets of Headinghill, Stoke, Milborne, and Leigh, the other half of the profits mentioned above, and the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 20th. 98 There was a fulling mill attached to the manor of Leigh Priors when this was acquired by the clothier, John … John Whitaker, alias Bathe. 99 A fulling mill at Westbury Leigh was conveyed in 1550 by John Stanshall and Anne, his … Sir James Ley in 1616. 3 Another fulling mill in Westbury Leigh was conveyed in 1584 by George, Lord Audley, lord of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… held for his tenants in Chalford, Brook, and Westbury Leigh. 27 This met, under the chairmanship of a steward, in a … of poor relief. The divisions were Westbury, Westbury Leigh, including Brook, Dilton, including Chapmanslade, and … century and in 1687 there was also a poorhouse at Westbury Leigh for the use of the poor of that division. 35 In 1732 …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… held at various places in the neighbourhood of Westbury Leigh, and frequently at Clay Close House, belonging to … on the site of the present Baptist chapel at Westbury Leigh, and in 1714 Self converted his barn into a chapel. In … elder of the church, with 29 followers left the Westbury Leigh chapel and formed a new congregation in a barn at …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… were an infants' school, and 5 daily schools: in Westbury Leigh there were 6 schools, in Bratton 3, in Dilton Marsh 2, … closed and the boys joined the Senior School in Lower (now Leigh) Road, later called the Westbury County Secondary … science and woodwork centre of the Senior School in Leigh Road. It was later used as extra accommodation for the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… WESTLEIGH, a township, in the parish and union of Leigh, hundred of West Derby, S. division of Lancashire, 1 mile (N. N. W.) from the town of Leigh, on the road to Wigan; containing 3005 inhabitants. A …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… the larger parts of Deerhurst, Elmstone Hardwicke, and Leigh, and part of Boddington, all east of the Severn, and … 11 The histories of Deerhurst, Elmstone Hardwicke, Leigh, and Tirley are given under Deerhurst hundred, that of …