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A History of the County of Essex
… Woodford Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. The wealth of woodland in Woodford long determined the economic life of the village, providing timber and some pasture, while … the canons of Waltham of various assarts made in the forest, including 32 a. at Woodford, 4 and in 1200 the abbot …
A History of the County of Essex
… Introduction WOODFORD Woodford was an ancient parish of 2,146 a., 1 lying about 8 miles north-east of the City of London, at the northern end of Becontree … Its western and northern boundaries ran through Epping Forest, part of which still survives in this area. A local …
A History of the County of Essex
… LOCAL GOVERNMENT. During the Middle Ages the abbot of Waltham, as lord of the manor, held courts for Woodford. He took the profits … in Woodford than in most Essex parishes, though the forest provided cover for thieves. In 1771 an association of …
A History of the County of Essex
… Woodford Manors MANORS. The manor of WOODFORD HALL, which comprised the greater part of the parish, is first mentioned in the charter of doubtful … stubbing in Monkham Grove and fencing off of it from the forest between 1737 and 1752 was probably associated with …
A History of the County of Essex
… by 1177 when it was confirmed among the possessions of the canons of Waltham Holy Cross. 1 In 1191 the Pope assigned this … the parishes of St. Mary, Woodford, and St. Peter-in-the-Forest, Walthamstow. 60 A separate ecclesiastical parish was …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Margaret) WOODHALL ( St. Margaret), a parish, in the union of Horncastle, S. division of the wapentake of Gartree, parts of Lindsey, county of … church has been erected at Woodhouse-Eaves, in Charnwood Forest; it was consecrated on the 5th of Sept. 1837, and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… SU 01 SW) Woodlands covers 2,594 acres in a broad strip of land extending from the R. Allen in the W. to the Dorset … by streams flowing S. and S.E. Bagshot Beds in the S.E. of the parish result in open heathland. The parish came into … windows and doorways were blocked up and altered without regard to symmetry, and the plan (probably of class T …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Fig. 212 Woodnewton Village Map Woodnewton is a parish of 565 hectares in the Forest of Rockingham. The village lies on the N. side of Willow …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Church Church. The church, of which the south doorway is of the 12th century, was presumably established when the … within Bladon parish and its church remained a chapel of ease, although rarely called a chapel after the 17th …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Development of the town Development of the town New Woodstock developed at a gate into the royal … town's curving west boundary perhaps represents the line of the 12th-century park wall but the straight south boundary …