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A History of the County of Essex
… the parish, which served Colchester from the 16th century or earlier until the 19th, developed into a small town. … on the west bank of the Colne, known as Old Heath common or meadow, was isolated when the river was improved, probably … there had been frequently reported as in need of repair or obstructed. 95 The lord of Wivenhoe manor held the rights …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Eaton in 1588. 35 The treatment, from the 16th century or earlier, of the demesne land and site of Godstow abbey as … Tree Farm in the north-east. 59 The land rises from 60 m. or lower along the Thames to over 70 m. in the east, along … Stone Bridge. 76. The bridge was rebuilt in the 16th or 17th century, of five arches, a large one in the middle …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… were probably built by the occupiers and were detached or semi-detached. There was some order to the western part of … designed and built and in disrepair, lacking back doors or opening windows. Oakengates urban district council …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 61 Cock fighting persisted locally until the 1850s or later. 62 By 1808 there was a brotherly or friendly society at Oakengates, perhaps that which met in …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Wood ash - Wort trough Wood ash [wood-ashes; wood or weed ashes; wood or sope ashes; wood or soap-ashes; wood ass; wood ashes] Not to be confused with …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… named from the Wigmore family of Kirtling, and Church Hall or Hall wood. In the mid 14th century 75 a. was coppiced on a … and ashes on each acre. 46 North of Hall wood, Nunns wood or grove, once belonging to the nuns of Swaffham Bulbeck, … Losses through disease in 1727-30 (annually three or four times that for an average year) were not replaced by …
The Environs of London
… 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, … letter to David Garrick, Esq. concerning a glossary to the Plays of Shakespeare, and had made large collections for an …
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, … are mentioned in the 17th century 10 and in 1653 two cows or one horse were allowed in the common meadow for every acre …
A History of the County of Essex
… The girls school of industry was probably absorbed a year or two before 1820, 6 when a building for the National school … 1922 many have proceeded to public schools on scholarships or through the common entrance examination. Archbishop … land, the rent from which was to be given to the poor. In or before 1645 this money, with another 100 belonging to the …
A History of the County of Essex
… where a branch of his family owned land; William ad aquam, or atte Ree, was one of a family from which Ray House derived … and Chigwell, and his name indicates that the bury or manor-house was at one time in this corner of the village, … who probably held Hill House. A lane, following more or less the line of the present Roding Lane North, linked …