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A History of the County of Essex
… and 20 a. of meadow. 51 Mixed farming was carried on at Bowdens farm beside the Stour in the 16th century. 52 … exacted carrying services on foot to and from Wormingford at their manor of Wix c. 1400. 56 In 1086 there was woodland … with a little pasture in 1906. After the First World War arable farming became even less profitable: in 1912 …
A History of the County of Essex
… was probably that over the river Stour by the watermill, at the bottom of Church Road, where there is a sand bank in … horse-drawn omnibus ran between the railway station at Bures (Suff.) (opened in 1849) and Colchester on … 361 in 1911, then remaining steady until the Second World War. In 1951 the population of 569 included temporary …
A History of the County of Essex
… Between 1584 and 1634 a leet was held with the court baron at about two-yearly intervals; the number of jurors sworn … from 2 yd. to 7 yd. each. In 1767 a woman was treated at Guys hos- pital, London, at parish expense. There was a salaried doctor in 1777. …
A History of the County of Essex
… Primitive Methodists met from the 1880s in the Forge Barn at the Queen's Head. In 1898 a corrugated-iron chapel was … Corner. Attendances declined after the Second World War. By 1970 only three Methodists remained in the village, …
A History of the County of York
… illustrated in the beginnings of Anglian Christianity at York when Paulinus baptized Edwin there in 627, for it is … place in the order of precedence, above his rival the treasurer, who seems to have ranked next to the dean in the … of special services increased after the Second World War: from St. Mark's Day 1955 to St. Mark's Day 1956 there …
A History of the County of Sussex
… visitors to the resort complained, and which was removed, at great expense, before 1802. 66 By 1814 the sea had reached … flooding by the sea through out the 19th century, 74 and at the east end of the town it was estimated that the … many more deaths than births. 81 Before the Second World War, however, the high proportion of elderly people appeared …
A History of the County of Sussex
… a. of meadow. Six villani and 9 bordars had another team. At the same date Mordinges, the other part of Worthing manor, … 56 a. in Worthing were copyhold of Cokeham, one copyhold at least having been enfranchised. 87 Of land in Worthing … was grown for the same markets until the First World War. 63 By 1904 there were c. 81 a. of glass-houses in the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… 34 There is some archaeological evidence for a settlement at the south end of High Street between the 13th and 16th … buildings possibly of the 18th century survived in 1978 at the east end of Warwick Street. South of the hamlet, on … glass-houses and windpumps, until after the Second World War. 10 In 1978 the long-drawn-out process of building …
A History of the County of Sussex
… to copyholds. From c. 1790 courts were held more often, at least once every two years, and sometimes two or three … were a clerk, who was paid for each meeting he attended, a treasurer, and a beadle who was also town-crier and … and encouraged its expansion. After the Second World War, on the other hand, it adopted a deliberate policy of …
A History of the County of Sussex
… in 1086, 51 and Worthing descended with Broadwater until at least 1268. 52 By 1291 Easebourne priory held lands in … 54 In 1536 the king granted it to Sir William Fitzwilliam, treasurer of his household. 55 Sir William (d. 1542), created … gave land in Worthing to the hospital he had founded at Cokeham in Sompting c. 1278. 71 It passed with the …