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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 … manor, 141 and Sir Thomas White (lord mayor in 1877). 142 Michael Godfrey (d. 1695), son of a London merchant who lived …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Margaret) WOODHALL ( St. Margaret), a parish, in the union of Horncastle, S. division of the wapentake of Gartree, parts … the Crouch river are several barrows. Woodham-Walter (St. Michael) WOODHAM-WALTER ( St. Michael), a parish, in the union of Maldon, hundred of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… N.W.) Woodham Walter is a parish and small village 2 m. W. of Maldon. The principal monuments are the Church and the Bell Inn. Ecclesiastical a(1). Parish Church of St. Michael (Plate p. 271) stands at the S. end of the village. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… survived until the 1930s. They were listed in a survey of 1279 and as 'the king's rents' in 1468-9. 48 Later the … their arrangement was partly topographical, as was that of the late 18th-century land tax assessments and the census … 50 It had eight hearths in the 1660s. 51 In 1718 Michael Glover sold it to Charles and Merrick Jenkins, whose …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… - Woore Woolminstone WOOLMINSTONE, a tything, in the union of Chard, hundred of Crewkerne, Western division of Somerset; … was a Benedictine abbey.See Oxford. Woolverstone (St. Michael) WOOLVERSTONE ( St. Michael), a parish, in the union and hundred of Samford, E. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wootton-Wawen Woothorpe WOOTHORPE, a hamlet, in the parish of St. Martin, Stamford-Baron, union of Stamford, soke of Peterborough, N. division of the county … of Edward III. to the convent of Our Lady St. Mary and St. Michael, at Stamford-Baron. Wootton (St. Mary) WOOTTON ( St. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… WOOTTON HUNDRED Wootton hundred covered some 70,000 acres of central Oxfordshire, bounded on the east by the river … at Cogges and Wilcote and over manors at Barford St. Michael and Cassington. There were numerous lesser … 32 were held on a single day at Glympton, Barford St. Michael, South Newington, Little Tew, and Over and Nether …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Worcester - Wormsley Worcester WORCESTER, a city, a county of itself, having exclusive jurisdiction, and the head of a … fund of 4 per annum to each of the nine parishes. Michael Wyatt, in 1725, left property in trust to the … apprenticing, and rewarding, the children. Workington (St. Michael) WORKINGTON ( St. Michael), a market-town, sea-port, …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… (1610) To the right worshipfull, his majesties justices of the peace for the countie of Wigorn. Whereas it was youre youre good worshipps pleasure … within this countie, towardes the necessary relief of the late infected persons, in the tythinge of Whitstone, …