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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Worcester - Wormsley Worcester WORCESTER, a city, a county of itself, having exclusive jurisdiction, and the head of a … library is attached, in 1815; there is also a society for the encouragement and improvement of native … 1818. The Museum of the Worcestershire Natural-History Society was opened in 1836. The theatre, a neat and …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… car. in demesne, and twenty-two sochm. on twelve bovats of this land, and twenty-four villains, and eight bord. having twenty-two car. and eight acres of meadow, pasture wood two leu. long, three quar. broad. In the time of Edward the confessour this was valued at 3l. when the …
The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk
… Worlingham Worlingham. Ulf, a free-man of Gurth, the brother of Harold, held Worlingham at the time of the Survey, and Roger Bigot was steward of it for the …
A History of the County of Essex
… 1825 there was a National Sunday school. 10 The National Society gave a grant towards the building of a new schoolroom at the south-east end of the churchyard c. 1825. 11 By 1833 it had accommodation …
A History of the County of Essex
… Wormingford Introduction WORMINGFORD THE ancient parish of Wormingford on the south bank of the river Stour, 6 miles north- west of Colchester and 8 … as an inn in 1750, was the meeting place of a friendly society between 1794 and 1849. 87 The one and a half bays on …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Mary) WORPLESDON ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Guildford, First division of the hundred of Wokeing, W. … in consideration of a grant of 200 from the Incorporated Society. A free school is endowed with an annual pension of … by subscription, aided by a grant from the Incorporated Society; and contains some monuments to the Bethune family. …
A History of the County of York
… It has been said 1 that the earliest liturgical traditions of the north were closely linked with Rome: this is perhaps illustrated in the beginnings of Anglian Christianity at York when Paulinus baptized Edwin … presumed that Paulinus brought with him the Roman pattern of the liturgy—the Roman canon of the mass, the system of …
A History of the County of Sussex
… WORTHING The Present article 51 deals with the history of Worthing hamlet until c. 1800, and thereafter with that of … the summer and autumn shows of the Worthing Horticultural Society. 49 Glass-house growers also began to take a part in … by the Temperance Permanent, later Gateway, Building Society in 1957, and Lloyds Bank registrar's department in …
A History of the County of Sussex
… were founded in 1858 by Robert and Ann Humphrys in memory of their son Harry, for Anglican married couples, widows, or … clothes. The Worthing and Broadwater Provident and Relief Society, started in the mid 19th century, provided coal in … equally between two Brighton charities, the Worthing Society for the Blind, and the Worthing and District Council …
A History of the County of Sussex
… 1410 was being used for mass. 74 Two chaplains, possibly of Worthing chapel, occurred in the early 15th century. 75 … as a result of strong criticism by the Cambridge Camden Society, and there were disputes between Elliott, the curate, … Protestant Church Union, 31 later merged in the Church Society, which held it in 1976. 32 A vicarage house recorded …