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A History of the County of Essex
… Introduction WOODFORD Woodford was an ancient parish of 2,146 a., 1 lying about 8 miles north-east of the City of London, at the northern end of Becontree … East London Waterworks Co., and by 1914 its successor, the Metropolitan water board, was supplying every house in the …
A History of the County of Essex
… LOCAL GOVERNMENT. During the Middle Ages the abbot of Waltham, as lord of the manor, held courts for Woodford. He took the profits … by 1826. In 1839 Woodford was brought into the area of the Metropolitan police. 18 The lord of the manor was presented …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to those founded in the chantry house on the north side of the church by Thomas Croft (d. 1488). 77 In 1551 the … in 1724. 79 In 1614 it housed old men and women; a list of doles to the almshouse poor c. 1630 evidently included … which seems to have been done since in 1909 the Charity Commission ordered the capital to be replaced from the income …
A History of the County of Oxford
… its original market, 66 but it remained a small community of tradesmen, craftsmen, and royal servants. Service in the … other names were derived from the building crafts of mason, carpenter, thatcher, and slater, the metal crafts … Woodstock glovers were condemned for their dependence on commission from London firms, which frequently left them …
A History of the County of Oxford
… as a borough in the early 14th century. 78 The development of self-government was only gradual, for the vill was merely … instituted by writ, and the borough was given its own commission of the peace, although it could not prosecute … 86 In 1974 the council retained some responsibility for sewers and minor roads, sanitation, housing, slum clearance, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… for threshing were provided by Tidenham tenants of the lordship of Striguil. The livestock usually consisted of eight oxen … and 38 a. of land; 63 in 1969 it was owned by the Forestry Commission. 64 During the 19th century much land was …
The Environs of London
… relating to its etymology. Situation. Boundaries. Quantity of land, and how occupid. Soil. Chalk-pit. Land-tax. Woolwich … Greenwich to Gravesend are now under the direction of a Commission of Sewers. The Thames at high-tide is nearly a mile wide at …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Worcester - Wormsley Worcester WORCESTER, a city, a county of itself, having exclusive jurisdiction, and the head of a union, locally in the county of Worcester, of which it … betrayed Colonel Fiennes' soldiers to Prince Rupert; and a commission was appointed by authority of the parliament, …
A History of the County of York
… It has been said 1 that the earliest liturgical traditions of the north were closely linked with Rome: this is perhaps … of the canons, several of whom were deprived by the High Commission for not complying with the order; 9 and the city … and in the same year a fine of £1,000 imposed by the High Commission at York was granted to the minster by Charles I …
A History of the County of Sussex
… WORTHING The Present article 51 deals with the history of Worthing hamlet until c. 1800, and thereafter with that of the town as it was enlarged by the successive boundary … when they were incorporated in Worthing. Some aspects of the history of Goring after 1929 are also treated here. …