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A History of the County of Oxford
… Richard Owen of Godstow was returned as a recusant in the 1590s, 64 and his influence may have encouraged the eight other recusants from the parish fined in the early … of the great tithes of Wolvercote. Cheriton refused the protestation oath in 1642. 66 There is no evidence that the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. Agriculture. By the mid 16th century what woodland remained in Wombridge and … 38 a. of wood in Wombridge, worth 10 s. an acre. 8 Among the coppices in the later 17th and 18th century were … due to Mr. W. K. V. Gale and Dr. B. S. Trinder who kindly read, and commented on, this section. V.C.H. Salop. ii. 82; …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wombridge Growth of settlement GROWTH OF SETTLEMENT. The original endowment of St. Leonard's priory seems to have consisted of the central part of what became the parish of Wombridge. About 1135 William and Seburga of …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… dated 1705, left £400 to pay three or four poor women of the parish to teach girls. By 1718 the sum had increased to £561 and an estate was purchased at … will dated 1722 was for teaching three boys each year to read and write and apprenticing one boy. The capital sum of …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… in 1735 and in 1750, but no group had a chapel in the parish. 4 A house was registered for protestant … and a number of houses were used by unidentified groups in the earlier 19th century. A house at Frogmarsh was registered …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… south of Newmarket, 8 a town established c. 1200 astride the road forming the parish boundary between Woodditton and Exning (Suff.). 9 Until the 19th century Woodditton's bounds were beaten along the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Manors and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. In the Middle Ages the manors in Woodditton were Ditton Camoys, Ditton Valence, … wife of the Revd. John Lloyd, and Jane, wife of George Read. 66 In 1742 the survivors sold the estate to the duke of …
The Environs of London
… 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 …
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 …
A History of the County of Essex
… school at Woodford, apparently Anglican, where most of the children of the poor were taught and clothed charitably. 1 By 1807, if not before, the only Sunday school was being held by Dissenters, but in …