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A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wombridge Growth of settlement GROWTH OF SETTLEMENT. The original endowment of … most buildings were erected by local tradesmen: in 1854, for instance, a block including the Charlton Arms was erected …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… WOMBRIDGE, LATER OAKENGATES Communications, p. 284. Growth of Settlement, p. 285. Social and Cultural Activities, p. … 298. Nonconformity, p. 301. Education, p. 302. Charities for the Poor, p. 306. Wombridge parish developed out of the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES. As almost everywhere in the coalfield the alehouse was an integral and ever present part of the community. There was an alehouse at Ketley Bank in … in market gardens around London would traditionally return for the wakes, some with dowries. 57 Horse and donkey races …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… wood ashes] Not to be confused with WEED ASH, these are the residues of ASHES from burning WOOD. This crude form of … was confined largely to fixing HINGEs, and rather later for securing the corner blocks in the seat frames of CHAIRs … Vermin' [Newspapers (1798)]. Typically for this type of promotion, the proprietor does not reveal the secrets of the …
Alumni Oxonienses
… minister in Salisbury, and at Newbury, Berks, ejected 1662 for nonconformity, chaplain to Charles II., silenced by the act of conformity; died at Inglefield, Berks, 1 Nov., … rector of Burwash, Sussex, 1551. See Journal Brit. Arch. Assoc. 1866, xxii. 122; Fasti, i. 70; & Foster's Index Eccl. …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Woodborough. Udeburgh WOODBOROUGH (Udeburgh.) In Udeburg the book of Doomsday shows that St. Mary of Sudwell had Sok to … before the conquest Ulchel had, which paid to the geld for three bov. The land one car. There Aldene (ancestor of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… south of Newmarket, 8 a town established c. 1200 astride the road forming the parish boundary between Woodditton and … almost immediately and continued into the 1990s, when, not for the first time, a further boundary extension was being … 2,000 spectators, the course was highly regarded, but National Hunt rules were alien to the patrician tone of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Church CHURCH. Woodditton parish church stands by the presumed site of Ditton Valence manor house, 11 whose lords probably … of the nave roof, then octagonal, and looks intended for a spire which was never added. The 15th-century roofs of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… EDUCATION. Occasional classes taught by curates in the early 19th century 78 were superseded in 1847 by a National school built on the road between Saxon Street and … and the school closed in 1983. 86 A private nursery school for 30 children was opened at Valence House in Ditton Green …
The Environs of London
… WOODFORD Etymology. Situation. Boundaries. Quantity of land. Soil. This place was so called from the ford in the wood, where Woodford-bridge now is. It lies … called Epping Forest) is in this parish. The soil is for the most part a strong loam. Land-tax. This parish pays …