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A History of the County of Stafford
… certainly stood on the site of Nield Bank, 95 and Dun Cow's Grove was recorded as Duncote Greave in 1600. 96 Gamballs … of that name in Quarnford which was the centre of the area's button trade. 20 Obadiah Tunnicliff, who was living at … been partly incorporated into a printed version of Lomas's diary, published in 1848. 52 On Census Sunday 1851 there …
A History of the County of Stafford
… suit at the manor court in 1769 was 58. 72 The township's population in 1801 was 391, rising to 467 in 1811. It was … the market place called the Board in 1850 and the Butcher's Arms in 1860 became the Grapes c. 1866. 81 A horse post … chapel. 55 The teaching of poor children was supported by charity money: half the interest on 196 9 s. 6 d. left by …
A History of the County of Stafford
… was opened north-east of the village in 1959. 18 A Women's Institute was formed in 1962. 19 The belief that coins were … may have originated in the early 13th century, when Hugh's grandfather owned a park in Quarnford. 23 Hugh Despenser … Quarnford to Sir Roger Swynnerton, along with Despenser's share of Alstonefield manor and his manor of Rushton …
A History of the County of Stafford
… result of mining at Ecton, in Wetton, 37 and the township's population was 731 in 1801, 828 in 1811, and 854 in 1821. … Mining at Ecton declined in the 1820s, and by 1831 Warslow's population had fallen to 696. Mining in Warslow itself … England Sunday school was started at Elkstone in 1865. 28 CHARITY FOR THE POOR. By 1786 William Mellor had left £40 for …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Runcorn, Second division of the hundred of Eddisbury, S. division of the county of Chester, 3 miles (S. S. W.) from Frodsham; containing 314 inhabitants, and … and schools are aided by the trustees of Gilbert's charity, which provides also for the repair of the chapel. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… parishes of Black Bourton and Kencot, Alvescot's ancient parish was long and narrow, running from north to … Thames may have been part of the same process. The parish's 18th-century boundaries (Fig. 10), essentially unaltered at … charities, given mostly by local landowners. 135 A charity founded by Charles Trinder of Holwell (d. 1657), who …
A History of the County of Oxford
… gift. 5 Then and presumably earlier the manor, with Saeric's lands in Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, and Gloucestershire, was … executors sold the estate, still charged with the Blake charity annuities, in 1909. 81 Shield Farm, 82 demolished … Kelly's Dir. Oxon. (1939). Information from Mr L.M.F. Spicer, Manor Fm. e.g. M. Devine (ed.), Cart. Cirencester …
A History of the County of Warwick
… as 966. 11 Domesday records three mills here, worth 40 s. and 12 sticks and 1,000 of eels. 12 In 1240 there were two … in 1570. 16 The settlement of the same estate which Edmund's grandson Thomas made at the time of his marriage in 1650 … estates, which was redeemed in 1932 by an order of the Charity Commissioners in consideration of a sum of 100 …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… along the south side of an ancient assart called Prior's Mesne and then descended a small brook by the west side of … the land rises steeply to reach 140 m. near Prior's Mesne and 125 m. at the Barnage ridge. Cone brook has been … and Hewelsfield, owned 267 a. 35 Most of the estate's woodland was acquired by the Forestry Commission in 1956. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in the parish of Old Swinford, union of Stourbridge, S. division of the hundred of Seisdon and of the county of … Kendal ward and union, county of Westmorland, 25 miles (W. S. W.) from Appleby, and 274 (N. W. by N.) from London; … Norman arch dividing the nave from the chancel. Here is a charity school, endowed in 1719, by Robert Pleydell, Esq., …