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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ( St. Andrew), a market-town and parish, in the union of Wellington, W. division of the hundred of Kingsbury, W. division of Somerset, 28 … subscription, and a grant of 500 from the Incorporated Society, for which 460 free sittings were provided. Here is a …
A History of the County of Essex
… estates ECONOMIC HISTORY. Between 1066 and 1086 the number of bordarii increased from 6 to 20 which might suggest … farming methods, and was president of Essex Agricultural Society in 1870. At his Wivenhoe Lodge farm of 300 a., where … from his estate. 14 A Wivenhoe branch of the Amalgamated Society of Boilermakers, Iron and Steel Ship- builders was …
A History of the County of Essex
… 97 Private schools were also recorded in 1844 and 1845. 98 Of two schools for young ladies recorded in 1866, one … day school for 28 chil- dren was established in one room of a small cottage. It was supported by voluntary contri- … 3 By 1839 the schools were in union with the National Society. In 1848 a new schoolhouse, built in the Elizabethan …
A History of the County of Essex
… Wivenhoe Charities for the poor WIVENHOE THE ancient parish of Wivenhoe, c. 3 miles south-east of Colchester on the east … and accommodated meetings of the vestry, a friendly society, and the Wivenhoe Association against Housebreakers, … lived in the town since the Second World War, and Wivenhoe Arts Club was opened in 1966. 82 Sir John Martin- Harvey …
A History of the County of Essex
… at Wivenhoe, which prob- ably met in the houses of John Tylor and William Giles, licensed for Presbyterian … 86 David George Goyder, minister of the Swedenborgian Society at Ipswich, founded a small society in Wivenhoe by 1848. The New Jerusalem church in Sun …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… 96 SW) The parish, covering around 1145 hectares, lies S. of Wellingborough between the R. Nene which forms its N.W. … above OD, partly floored by clay but with extensive areas of river gravel and alluvium near the Nene. The parish is notable for the large number of prehistoric and Roman sites. The most impressive are those …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Andrew) WOLLASTON ( St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Chepstow, hundred of Westbury, W. division of the county of Gloucester, 5 miles (N. E.) from Chepstow; …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… WOLLATON, OLAVESTON. In Olaveston (through corruption of speech now called Wollaton) there was of William Peverells fee of a Mannor which defore the Conquest Vlsi had, who paid for …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to have been no school in the parish before the beginning of the 19th century when dame or 'petty' schools were … or National system, closed shortly afterwards for lack of financial support, and in 1815 the three day schools … of Merton College, St. John's College, and the National Society, a new girls' schoolroom was built. 79 In 1833 a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… WOLVERCOTE, 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 … down. In the later 19th century the Foresters' Friendly Society held its annual festival on Whit Monday, with a …