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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… - Woodbury Wombleton WOMBLETON, a township, in the parish of Kirkdale, union of Helmsley, wapentake of Ryedale, N. riding of York, 4 miles (E. by S.) from …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 58 and the school opened in 1878. A continuing shortage of school places was relieved by enlargements of the board … in the district. The first chairman was William Perrott, secretary of the Lilleshall Co. 67 He was soon succeeded by … log bks. of other schs. in the coalfield reveal no such state of affairs. P.R.O., ED 7/102, f. 479; St. Geo.'s C.E. …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Not to be confused with WEED ASH, these are the residues of ASHES from burning WOOD. This crude form of POTASH had to be processed to concentrate the content of potassium and to turn the raw product into POTASHES and …
Alumni Oxonienses
… 1600. See Woodhall. Woodarde, Nicholas s. Christopher, of Mechlen in Flanders, gent. Magdalen Hall, matric. 9 Oct., … Kent, esq. (s. Thomas), born there 30 March, 1568, secretary to Robert, earl of Essex, M.P. Appleby 1614, and … 1661 (son of Matthew last-named), educated at Cambridge, secretary to the Earl of Clarendon, and to James, duke of …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… purchased by a Catholic, 56 was bought by Charles Hooper of Eastington (d. 1869), 57 who gave it to Simeon's trustees, … 1291 60 and £9 9 s. in 1535. 61 In 1650 the annual value of the living, which included 25 a. of glebe, was £54 62 and … f. 52; G.D.R. vol. 40, f. 189. Hockaday Abs. ccccxv; lii, state of clergy 1593, f. 5. Ibid. ccccxv. Walker Revised, ed. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Woodditton WOODDITTON Woodditton lies immediately south of Newmarket, 8 a town established c. 1200 astride the road … bounds were beaten along the frontages on the south side of Newmarket High Street. 10 Newmarket was separated from its … Map 1/2,500, Cambs. XLII. 9 (1902 edn.). Inf. from Club Secretary, Mrs. MacGregor; C.R.O. 470/O 137, no. 1300. Local …
The Environs of London
… WOODFORD Etymology. Situation. Boundaries. Quantity of land. Soil. This place was so called from the ford in the … wood, where Woodford-bridge now is. It lies in the hundred of Becontree, at the distance of about seven miles and a half … 12s. 1d. The commissioners appointed to inquire into the state of ecclesiastical benefices, in 1650, found, by their …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Woodford WOODFORD The ancient parish of Woodford lies between Salisbury and Amesbury, on the western side of the River Avon. The parish is bounded on the east by the … In 1600 the mill had been presented as being in a bad state of repair as a result of floods. By 1773 the mill seems …
A History of the County of Essex
… Sunday school at Woodford, apparently Anglican, where most of the children of the poor were taught and clothed charitably. 1 By 1807, if … Antiq. Soc. Occ. Pubn. viii). Inf. from school secretary. St. Paul's, Woodford Green (pamphlet for official …
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 … Ago, 1. V.C.H. Essex, v. 27, 29. T. De Laune, Present State of London (1692). G. Brumell, Local Posts of London …