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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ABBAS-COMBE, or Temple-Combe ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Wincanton, hundred of Horethorne, E. division of … The parish comprises by measurement 1884 acres of land; and contains good building-stone of the granite species, and … it stood in Monk-street. The town, which is lighted with gas and well supplied with water, is beautifully situated at …
A History of the County of Essex
… have visited Rookwood Hall for the benefit of his health and to have obtained from his hosts the use of a former malt … the Capels, who were certainly living there in 1698 and perhaps for a few years after. Until the end of the 18th … villages and persuaded the Essex Congregational Union to make a grant of £35 towards this work in 1885, when …
A History of the County of Essex
… Abbess Roding Parish government and poor relief PARISH GOVERNMENT AND POOR RELIEF The court rolls of the manor of Abbess Roding … Rivers (q.v.) and other parishes in a voluntary poor law Union under Gilbert's Act. In 1836 Abbess Roding became part …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… WALES. Abbey Cwm Hr ABBEY CWM HR, a parish, in the union of Rhaiadr, comprising the hamlet of Cevnpawl in the hundred of Kevenlleece, and the hamlet of Gollon in the hundred of Knighton, county … to St. Mary, was founded in 1148, by Cadwallon ab Madoc, and was originally designed for sixty brethren of the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… Abbey Dore AN INVENTORY OF THE ANCIENT AND HISTORICAL MONUMENTS IN SOUTH-WEST HEREFORDSHIRE … m. S.W. of Hereford. The principal monuments are the Abbey and Grange Farm. Roman c(1). In the station yard in 1908 the … rays; lower down large Royal Arms of Queen Anne after the Union in red and yellow colouring, rather defaced but with …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… bank of the Nethan, a fine stream tributary to the Clyde, and is in the centre of the parish, and contains the … clay of good quality is found in the neighbourhood. Coal-gas works have been established for lighting the towns of … by the turnpike-road from Queensferry to Linlithgow; the Union canal intersects the southern portion of the parish, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… list NOTE ON ABBREVIATIONS Among the abbreviations and short titles used the following may require elucidation: … of Canterbury giving an account of inhabitants, papists and other dissenters in the various dioceses' Dunkin MS. … Gloucester City Library, including terriers, tithe awards, and bound volumes of diocesan records. Hockaday Abs. The …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Brown Clee. Much of its boundary, especially on the south and west, followed streams, but on the east it followed the … Earnstrey Park, a detached township of Diddlebury parish, and a small detachment of Tugford parish around New House. 91 … not exercised there. 79 The parish was in Ludlow poor-law union 1836-1930, 80 Ludlow highway district 1863-95, 81 …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… on the south-west by the extraparochial Forest of Dean and included part of the market town of Mitcheldean. 2 Almost … in shape, the parish covered only 770 a. 3 (311.6 ha.) and was divided from Mitcheldean parish to the north-west … and the early 20th, but between 1921 and the time of the union with Mitcheldean in 1935 it recovered from 189 to 230. …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… county of Aberdeen; comprising the village of Pennan, and containing 1645 inhabitants, of whom 376 are in the … meaning "the glen of scanty arable land." The date of union is uncertain; but, previously to 1763, there was a … appearance, and the streets are well paved, lighted with gas, and watched, under the provisions of an act of 1 and 2 …