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A History of the County of Leicestershire
… 17th century and there are only two outlying farms- Wistow Lodge and Wistow Grange. The depopulation of the village and … who held the lands that had once been Robert dispensator's. 28 The earliest reference to their tenure of Wistow seems … earls of Pembroke, who remained tenants of the family's Leicestershire estates, including Wistow, until the death …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by subscriptions, loans, and a subvention from the town's Freeland estate charity, 1 together with sale of old … the bailiffs and excluded from charitable uses. 4 Holloway's and Townsend's Almshouses Two other almshouses were founded … town for 2 years. William Gunn ( fl. 1628) of London, wine-porter: by lifetime gift before 1628, 10 to be lent among …
A History of the County of Oxford
… ECONOMIC LIFE 1500 TO 1800 From the 16th century Witney's economy was dominated by its expanding cloth industry, … riots. Conditions improved only with the blanket industry's recovery in the early 19th century, as piecemeal mechanization transformed the town's industrial organization. 14 The Cloth and Blanket Industry …
A History of the County of Oxford
… international scale. More general resurgence of the town's population and economy followed, though possibly not until … about 121213, a venture presumably stimulated by Witney's early success; since Newland failed, however, expansion may … house and outside the parish. 18 Names such as Butler, Porter, Barber, Woodward, Parker, Hayward, and Day (or …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and the excavated remains of the bishop of Winchester's manor house show that there was high-quality stone building … provisions; H. receiving-room for stores; J. stores; K. porter; L. work rooms; M. wash house; N. laundry; P. … entrance block contained a reception hall and porter's lodge on the ground floor, with the board room above. From …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and the right to deliver and return royal writs, the king's officers being forbidden entry into the bishop's manors except in connection with Crown pleas. 1 In 1284 the … style by William Wilkinson, who also designed the keeper's lodge. 284 The UDC took over as burial board in 1895, and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the growing centrality of Nonconformity to the town's social and civic as well as religious life (Figs. 546). An … Anglican churches together, overall attendance at the town's five Nonconformist meeting houses remained higher, … chapel were demolished and replaced with a new keeper's lodge, after Charles Early offered a site on High Street for …
A History of the County of Essex
… third highest in Lexden hundred, 20 reflecting Wivenhoe's growth as a port whose develop- ment was linked with the … with most of the south of Wivenhoe being the lord's demesne except for a considerable amount of copyhold land … of Essex Agricultural Society in 1870. At his Wivenhoe Lodge farm of 300 a., where 10 men were employed in 1851, …
A History of the County of Essex
… in the north-east and in a small pocket south of Wivenhoe lodge in the north-west. A band of London clay is exposed … a post office by 1853, probably the one which was in Queen's Road in 1887, and a sub post office at Wivenhoe Cross by … settlement. 23 The place name, Wivenhoe, meaning Wifa's ridge or spur of land, 24 suggests early Anglo-Saxon …
A History of the County of Essex
… Nigel as a tenant of Robert Gernon. 92 After Robert Gernon's fief had escheated to the Crown, Henry I granted it to … it passed with Battleswick in Colchester to Richard Battle's daughter and coheir Margery wife of William Sutton. 98 The … laid out by W. A. Nesfield. 15 The north- east entrance lodge is of the early 19th century. Aubrey de Vere (1137-94), …