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Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… dwelling is remaining. The present building is erected on a slooping ground, with a fine lawn in front of about 30 … walk, which encircles it, of about a mile long, whence on the east, south, and west, you have extensive views into … Derby shire, Yorkshire, and a losty hill in Cheshire. On part of the west and north the prospect is bounded by a …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… in this article. The parish lies for the most part on the southern side of the Sence, and the river and its tributaries form the parish boundary on the north and east. The land rises from about 300 ft. in … Field boundaries and tracks mark the parish boundary on the south and west. The soil is mainly a loamy clay. The …
Records relating to the Barony of Kendale
… was resident at Witherslack Hall and paid tax that year on seven hearths. In 1684 a dispute between the Earl of Derby … coparceners died without issue. This estate was settled on the issue of that marriage, and on failure thereof, … to wit inter alia Wetherslake; Cal. Pat. R, p. 169. 1486 A commission was issued to Richard Tunstall, knt. and another, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… containing 818 inhabitants. This parish, which is situated on the river Colne, comprises about 7000 acres: the soil is … How, his wife, and nine children, in a small cross aisle on the south side of the church, the burial-place of the … of Lancashire, 5 miles (N. E. by N.) from Chorley, on the road to Blackburn; containing, in 1846, 2150 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Feoffees By 1613 the borough owned an almshouse and garden on the site of Nos. 2838 Church Green north of the rectory … some 417 of stock for charitable purposes, which a Charity Commission investigation that year found was not being used … significant changes were made until 1935 when two Charity Commission Schemes were sealed, by which all of Witney's …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was a small horse- or donkey-powered spinning factory on Corn Street. 14 Power-looms seem not to have been … Thomas Collins's weaving shops and small blanket factory on the north side of Corn Street, gradually extended from the late 18th century, were sold on his bankruptcy in 1814 and acquired in 1830 by Horatio and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… nondenominational National school was established in 1813 on Bridge Street, prompting a sharp fall in the number of … structural change was essential, and in 1877 a Charity Commission Scheme reorganized the school as a 'Second Grade' … school combining with it. Under Schemes of the Charity Commission in 1901 and of the Board of Education in 1902 the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… town stands at an early crossing of the river Windrush, on a limestone cornbrash island formerly lying between two … suggests that a late Anglo-Saxon estate-centre existed on or near the same site. 7 The precise location and … 102; xiii. 153. Compton, Oxf. Canal, 5760; C. Hadfield, Canals of East Midlands (1966), 1578; VCH Oxon. xii. 48, 182; …
A History of the County of Oxford
… or small portmoot met usually around 612 times a year on a Wednesday or Friday, and the two tourns, lawdays, or great portmoots for the borough on a Monday near Hockday and Michaelmas. 24 The pattern was … included in the town charities under successive Charity Commission decrees, and although from 1744 they were leased …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… inhabitants are supplied with water by pipes from a spring on Mawndown, a hill about a mile distant. A woollen manufacture is carried on, but not on so large a scale as formerly; the articles consists …