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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Introduction WISBECH Wisbech is the largest and only corporate town in the Isle, and the nodal point for the whole marshland area comprised by … Old Market and along North Street. Lower down the river, Bedford, Russell and Chase Streets had been laid out and …
Records relating to the Barony of Kendale
… Witherslack, Meathop and Ulpha WITHERSLACK, MEATHOP AND ULPHA. The mesne manor of Meathop and Ulpha with land at … Richard and Joan who held it of Ingelram de Coucy, earl of Bedford, and Isabel his wife. In 1408 Richard, son of Richard …
A History of the County of Oxford
… cloth industry, already unrivalled within the county and marked, from the early 17th century, by increasing specialization in blankets and other broadcloths. 1 Thenceforth until the 20th century … in 1686 the moderately prosperous blanket-maker Francis Bedford had a loom in his weaving house, wool and yarn in his …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Introduction: Architecture and Buildings ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDINGS 1 Building Materials In the 1640s Witney was … shop, warping chamber, and wool house in 1645, and Francis Bedford had the same in 1686. 104 Those were typical of the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Andrew) WIVELISCOMBE ( St. Andrew), a market-town and parish, in the union of Wellington, W. division of the … W. division of Somerset, 28 miles (W.) from Somerton, and 155 (W. by S.) from London; containing 2984 inhabitants. … the head of a union, in the hundred of Manshead, county of Bedford, 15 miles (S. W. by S.) from Bedford, and 42 (N. W. …
A History of the County of Essex
… warren in their demesne lands in Wivenhoe. 39 In the 14th and 15th centuries courts with view of frankpledge were held … on the lord's land, breach of the assize of ale, and of infringing the lord's rights of avesage, pannage, and … Essex, ix. 294. E.C.S. 20 Oct. 1989; inf. from Mrs. J. Bedford. E.R.O., D/P 277/8/1. Inf. from Estates Management …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… granted to the family of Clare, who gave the manor and church to Tintern Abbey, together with several granges … Wye the parish is bounded by a range of limestone hills, and towards the Severn by a rich vale of red marl; it is … is bounded on the east by a portion of the county of Bedford, and intersected by the road from Bedford to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… an ancient parish lying on the north-west of the city and liberty of Oxford, c. 2 ½ miles north of the city centre, contained two settlements, Upper and Lower Wolvercote; the adjoining extra-parochial areas of … are scattered among the earlier cottages in Godstow Road. Bedford House (no. 102), by contrast, is a substantial late …
A History of the County of Essex
… does not seem to have been appropriated, even temporarily, and its incumbent has always been styled a rector. But part … composition was made in 1224 between the abbot of Waltham and the rector of Woodford to settle certain divisions of … it in 1914 to her sister, Adeline Russell, duchess of Bedford (d. 1920). 10 In 1930 the duchess's executors sold it …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… to St. Mary, existed here in the time of Henry I., and was united in the reign of Edward III. to the convent of Our Lady St. Mary and St. Michael, at Stamford-Baron. Wootton (St. Mary) … in the hundred of Redbornestoke, union and county of Bedford, 4 miles (S. W.) from Bedford; containing 1122 …