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A History of the County of Essex
… Wivenhoe Charities for the poor WIVENHOE THE ancient parish of Wivenhoe, c. 3 miles south-east of Colchester on the east … a small town. Wivenhoe became an urban district in 1898, and remained so until 1974 when it became part of the new … 64-9. V.C.H. Essex, iv. 227; v. 212; Essex Sessions of the Peace, ed. E. C. Furber, 17-18; Morant, Essex, i. 407; ii. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Andrew) WOLLASTON ( St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Chepstow, hundred of Westbury, W. division of the county … granted to the family of Clare, who gave the manor and church to Tintern Abbey, together with several granges … shortly to apply for a separate commission of the peace. The powers of the county debt-court of Wolverhampton, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… - Woodbury Wombleton WOMBLETON, a township, in the parish of Kirkdale, union of Helmsley, wapentake of Ryedale, N. … WOMBOURN ( St. Benedict), a parish, in the union, and S. division of the hundred, of Seisdon, S. division of … infantry; but they were pulled down on the restoration of peace. The trade mainly consists in the exportation of corn, …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wombridge Growth of settlement GROWTH OF SETTLEMENT. The original endowment of … of what became the parish of Wombridge. About 1135 William and Seburga of Hadley and their son Alan gave land bounded on … the town centre by the International Voluntary Service for Peace on the initiative of J. E G. Cartlidge, vicar of …
The Environs of London
… WOODFORD Etymology. Situation. Boundaries. Quantity of land. Soil. This place was so called from the ford in the … hundred of Becontree, at the distance of about seven miles and a half from Whitechapel church. The parish is bounded by … whenever the parishioners should demand it, after a good peace should be settled in church and state. Among the debts …
A History of the County of Essex
… LOCAL GOVERNMENT. During the Middle Ages the abbot of Waltham, as lord of the manor, held courts for Woodford. He took the profits of justice 1 and, from the 13th century at least, held a view of … and in 1801 by a special rate; and justices of the peace were occasionally persuaded to grant orders for the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was at Woodstock Park, which he visited regularly for love of Rosamund Clifford; he therefore provided land outside the park so that men might build hospitia, and he granted a market to the new residents. 5 The story is … considered forming an armed association to preserve the peace 7 and in 1800 the mayor appointed special constables to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… New Woodstock was incorporated in 1453 75 the borough and its customs were ancient. The plots laid out at the … as a borough in the early 14th century. 78 The development of self-government was only gradual, for the vill was merely … writ, and the borough was given its own commission of the peace, although it could not prosecute felonies without …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… 6 ins. aSY 88 NW, bSY 88 NE, SY 89 SW) The modern parish of Wool, 5 m. W. of Wareham, covers some 3,000 acres on both sides of the river Frome between 200 ft. and 50 ft. above O.D. The S. part slopes from Chalk in the … The original iron firegrate has panels with figures of Peace and Plenty. The Drawing Room to the E. also has an …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… - Woore Woolminstone WOOLMINSTONE, a tything, in the union of Chard, hundred of Crewkerne, Western division of Somerset; … is situated on the road from Ipswich to Bury St. Edmund's, and was formerly a market-town. The parish comprises 1898 a. … sovereigns, on their visit to this country after the peace of 1814, and presented by that monarch to the garrison. …