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A History of the County of Oxford
… reflected the experience of many small cloth towns, 1 and may have had its origins in an earlier tradition of local … accused of disseminating the scriptures in English and of questioning Catholic doctrine. Several of the group … associated with the cloth industry and to have had London trade links, those from Witney including a weaver, a town …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… W. by N.) from Wallingford; containing 125 inhabitants, and comprising 869 a. 2 r. 19 p. The living is a rectory, … by an ancient intrenchment supposed to be British, and to have been afterwards occupied by the Romans, Roman … good arable, meadow, and pasture, with some woodland and plantations. The substratum contains coal and lead, the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Andrew) WIVELISCOMBE ( St. Andrew), a market-town and parish, in the union of Wellington, W. division of the … W. division of Somerset, 28 miles (W.) from Somerton, and 155 (W. by S.) from London; containing 2984 inhabitants. … for the Newfoundland fishery, and blankets for the home trade: the number of persons regularly employed varies from …
A History of the County of Essex
… Wivenhoe Manors and other estates ECONOMIC HISTORY. Between 1066 and 1086 the … 16th and 17th centuries, supply- ing wool for the cloth trade of Colchester and other towns, but arable farming was … in exchange for herrings, and bulkier brigs for general trade. 6 Wivenhoe reached the peak of its fame for yacht- and …
A History of the County of Essex
… a small town. Wivenhoe became an urban district in 1898, and remained so until 1974 when it became part of the new … 86 Natural boundaries were formed by streams on the east and north-west, Wivenhoe and Whit- more heaths on the north-east, and the river Colne …
A History of the County of Essex
… warren in their demesne lands in Wivenhoe. 39 In the 14th and 15th centuries courts with view of frankpledge were held … on the lord's land, breach of the assize of ale, and of infringing the lord's rights of avesage, pannage, and larder were heard; admissions to and surrenders of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… granted to the family of Clare, who gave the manor and church to Tintern Abbey, together with several granges … Wye the parish is bounded by a range of limestone hills, and towards the Severn by a rich vale of red marl; it is … of a romantic succession of small hills, studded with plantations and old oaks, and forming an agreeable contrast …
A History of the County of Oxford
… abbey consolidated much of its demesne land in Wolvercote and St. Giles's parish into a single block of land straddling … the process: in return for land at Ailmerswell, Horestone, and Hawsland ditch in the north end of St. Giles's, Godstow … gave to St. Frideswide's its land in St. Clement's parish and at Twisdelowe (40 a. in 1545) in the north-east corner of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… an ancient parish lying on the north-west of the city and liberty of Oxford, c. 2 ½ miles north of the city centre, contained two settlements, Upper and Lower Wolvercote; the adjoining extra-parochial areas of … Synopsis, 23 Oct., 27 Nov. 1790. Rep. on Navigation and Trade upon Thames and Isis (1793) H.C. 1st. ser. xiv, p. 233; …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… WOMBOURN ( St. Benedict), a parish, in the union, and S. division of the hundred, of Seisdon, S. division of … 391 are rough marsh, turf-grounds, &c., 115 wood and plantations, 72 heath, and 151 water, the last comprehending … and on its banks is Honey-street wharf: a considerable trade in timber and coal is carried on, and a great number of …