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A History of the County of Oxford
… 36 s. 10 The site of New Woodstock, a well drained plateau on the edge of the Glyme valley opposite the royal palace, … baptisms rose to 48 a year, probably in part reflecting national population trends. 36 In 1801 there were 1,322 … almshouses in the 1790s, and providing land for the National schools of 1854. Their influence was sometimes …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the profits were taken to include the quitrents set on burgages at the town's foundation and still listed in … addresses expressed conventional reactions to royal and national events, but in 1850 the council was particularly … 17th century, when men began to be excluded on grounds of politics and religion, the council was recruited from the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… earl of Montgomery. 5 Whitelocke, whose contentious views on the royal prerogative may have provoked Herbert's … non-resident political adherents; Thomas Howard, elected on Fleetwood's death in 1674, although not apparently a Whig … July 1830. For Stormont's expenses at Norwich see N. Gash, Politics in the Age of Peel, 169, 171. Oxf. fnl. 30 Apr. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… encrusted with concretions of most fantastic form, while on the floor are other large petrifactions, formed by the … roof cylindrical, and its bottom composed of a fine sand. On one side of the last cave runs a very cold and pure stream … attached. Here are places of worship for Wesleyans; and a national school. Woolbeding WOOLBEDING, a parish, in the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… year was paid regularly to a master in the years before a National school was founded at Gumstalls c. 1818. 2 The National school was supported from subscriptions but also … only 50 boys attended daily, with an additional 50 girls on Sundays; 40 children came from Alvington. The Sunday …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… area included Madgett, a detached piece of cultivated land on Tidenham Chase, and a long, narrow neck of land extending … and the steep wooded scarp of Madgett Hill. The promontory on which Ferry Farm stands was called Yewtree Headland ( Iwes … of early-19th-century cottages and a house which was the National school from c. 1818 to 1862, 22 there was a house by …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… and an Independents' meeting in 1830. The first Bible Christian chapel in west Gloucestershire was built at … c. 1959. 92 Primitive Methodists met in a private house on the ring road at Woolaston Common 93 before building a … A. Higgs, chapel treasurer. H.O. 129/576/3/1/3. The date on bldg. is 1836. Ex inf. Mr. G. Murphy, the surviving …
A History of the County of Somerset
… its name derived from a Saxon personal name, 5 lies on the northern slope of the Polden ridge near its western … 7 In 1885 Withy Leaze, a detached part of Shapwick parish on the north-west boundary, was added to Woolavington, but in … the 20th century 5 and remains open. NOTABLE RESIDENTS AND NATIONAL EVENTS The Hody family originated as unfree tenants …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… and the erratic plan indicates the existence of a building on the site before the present church. The existing Chancel, … arches of two chamfered orders and with a moulded label on the nave-side: the columns are octagonal and the responds … the N.E. respond and of the S. arcade and the respondbases on the same side are modern. The nave extends beyond the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… containing 942 inhabitants. This place is situated on the road from Ipswich to Bury St. Edmund's, and was … to these are immense store-houses, forming a grand national dept of warlike stores, of every description, for … built. The Methodists have a small place of worship. A national school for boys, girls, and infants, built in 1832, …