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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 …
A History of the County of Essex
… parish of 2,146 a., 1 lying about 8 miles north-east of the City of London, at the northern end of Becontree hundred. Its western and … P.N. Essex, 110. Cat. Anct.D. i. B 777 (Edw. I should read Edw. III). V.C.H. Essex, v. 116; E.R. lvi. 1825. …
A History of the County of Essex
… evidently in existence by 1177 when it was confirmed among the possessions of the canons of Waltham Holy Cross. 1 In 1191 the Pope assigned … orders, was unable to give absolution, and that the rector read the services perfunctorily. 33 By the early 18th century …