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Alumni Oxonienses
… March, 1685-6, aged 20. [ 16] Woodcock, Lawrence (Wudcocke or Wodecocke) fellow New Coll. 1508-20, from St. … 16; B.A. from Christ Church 1686, M.A. 1689; rector of Newington, Surrey, 1695-8, and of Little Bowden, Northants, … Add. MS. 15,671, p. 25. [ 15] Wright, Thomas s. Raphe, of Stamford-superTeame, co. Worcester, sacerd. Brasenose Coll., …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… appears to have been the residence of the propraetor, or perhaps of the Emperor Adrian. Among the antiquities that … be descriptive of the situation of the church either in, or contiguous to, a wood. The church is a highly interesting … so called from an ancient ford, where is now Woodford Bridge, is about three miles in length and two in breadth, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Elizabeth Seys, by will dated 1705, left £400 to pay three or four poor women of the parish to teach girls. By 1718 the … the Woodchester Endowed school, up to £10 for apprenticing or for an exhibition for further education, £20 for …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… the early 17th century. 11 The park, known as Woodchester, or Spring, Park, 12 was situated in the west of the parish … higher slopes of the valley, and assorted houses of brick or stone have been built on either side of Selsley Road at …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Cheveley. 58 Archbishop Stigand later held it as lessee or custodian of the abbey, and on his death in 1072 it was … sold Ditton Camoys in 1393 to William Rickhill 77 (d. 1407 or 1408), whose son John was in possession in 1412 78 and … 15th centuries the manor house stood within a moat whose bridge was mentioned in 1461. 21 The site was probably that …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… with a maximum height of 155 m. above OD. No prehistoric or Roman remains have been found in the parish and the main … blocks, are very slight and cannot represent more than one or two years cultivation. The main feature of the site is a … main hollow-way divides ('b' on plan). Shallow depressions or raised plat-forms elsewhere may be the sites of other …
The Environs of London
… was so called from the ford in the wood, where Woodford-bridge now is. It lies in the hundred of Becontree, at the … there, in 1420 10. Whether this was another manor, or whether the Hickmans held under the Abbey of Waltham, I am … the inscriptions of which have been since either removed or defaced:Anne, wife of Daniel Thelwall, 1638; Elizabeth, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… above OD. Air photographs show, rather indistinctly, two or three ovoid enclosures ( BNFAS, 6 (1971), 19). Fig. 117 … N.E. end of Woodford village, alongside an old hollow-way or road leading to Thrapston, on the top of and on the steep … Ridge-and-furrow of these fields survives on the ground or can be traced on air photographs mainly to the W. and S.W. …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… in three villages in the valley: Lower Woodford, Woodford or Middle Woodford, and Upper Woodford. Until the beginning … and Middle Woodford together were known as Little Woodford or Nether Woodford. These three villages lie along a road … antiquity, going from east to west across the parish. A bridge at Upper Woodford, which was in existence in 1370, 5 …
A History of the County of Essex
… 7 They held either one virgate (the standard 30 a.) or a fraction of a virgate, for which they did service in … one man to work in the lord's meadow at hay-time and two or three men to the boon works, but more paid no rent, … ii. 417; Patent artificial slate-manufactory at Woodford Bridge, Essex , 17. For the slate factory c. 1776 see plate …