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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Worth Matravers 53 WORTH MATRAVERS (9777) (O.S. 6 ins. aSY 97 NE, bSY 98 SE) Worth Matravers, a parish covering 2,700 acres, lies in the S. part of the Isle of Purbeck, 3 miles W. of Swanage. It … and hedges. On the high limestone tableland are Renscombe Farm, Weston Farm, Worth Matravers and Eastington Farm. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… had led to the accumulation of shingle, and Worthing's former fine, hard sands 78 had been replaced by a pebbly … 87 Those conditions were a principal cause of Worthing's growth as a resort, and afterwards of the expansion of the … in 1918 casual gardening afforded higher rewards to local farm-workers than agricultural overtime. 70 In the 1920s and …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Portland Road, 29 with money bequeathed by Robert Humphrys's will dated 1860. Part of the land was sold c. 1922, and the … Scheme of 1972; £4.80 was paid out in 1975. St. Elizabeth's alms-houses were founded in 1859 by Alfred Burges of … About 1920 John Pearson of Worthing established Pearson's Retreat Cottage Homes for poor, elderly inhabitants of …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Worthing Land Improvement Co. held c. 105 a.there. 26 A farm-house had been built on the eastern edge of the former east field on John Winchester's allotment by 1838. 27 It was called Sea Mill Park farm by … poultry were also kept. 32 Market-gardening. 33 Worthing's climate and fertile brickearth soil helped the development …
A History of the County of Sussex
… weekly payments. 7 A new schoolroom, classroom, and master's house were built in Richmond Road c. 1834, 8 and c. 1847 … to the Revd. W. Davison (d. 1852). The Davison school's average attendance was 120 in 1862 when there was also a … in Bedford Row, 1909. Moved to new buildings in South Farm Road 1914. Junior school apparently in Shelley Road …
A History of the County of Sussex
… AND PUBLIC SERVICES Manor Court books of Worthing manor's court baron survive from 1544 to 1925. 91 The court's jurisdiction was presumably over that part of Worthing … a temporary supply from a well sunk in the chalk at Lyons farm, Broadwater, 91 and from 1897 by a new pumping station …
A History of the County of Sussex
… by 1811, and a master of ceremonies c. 1813. 19 Worthing's original promenade was the sands, but by 1811 they had been … at the junction of High and Warwick streets, and Stafford's Marine library, west of what was later the Steyne Hotel. 31 … were founded by religious interests. The Workman's Reading Room or Institute in Montague Street was founded …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of the wapentake of Skyrack, W. riding of York, 3 miles (S.) from Wetherby; containing 19 inhabitants. It comprises … the hundred of Wotton, W. division of Surrey, 3 miles (W. S. W.) from Dorking; containing, with the chapelry of … and Highgate. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 12. 18. 9., and in the patronage of William J. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… Buckinghamshire Wotton Underwood 101. WOTTON UNDERWOOD. (O.S. 6 in. (a)xxvii. N.W. (b)xxvii. N.E. (c)xxvii. S.W.) Ecclesiastical a(1). Parish Church of All Saints, about … 1589. ConditionGood; much restored. Secular a, b(2). Moat Farm, house and moat, about 1 miles N.E. of the church. The …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… Wotton-under-Edge WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE (18 miles S.W. of Cirencester) Romano-British objects have been found in the vicinity of Symonds' Hall Farm (ST 790960). A fragment of a quern 1 was picked up immediately S. of the farm in 1969 (ST 790958). A metal spoon 2 was found …