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A History of the County of Oxford
… and Curbridge were added in 1932, bringing the town's area to 1,306 a., and intakes from Curbridge (47 a.) and … the river and surrounded by low-lying alluvium. The river's surviving eastern branch formed the town's and parish's eastern boundary until the 20th century, and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and the excavated remains of the bishop of Winchester's manor house show that there was high-quality stone building … doing so in 1595, as was Anne Pettie, one of the richest women in the town, in 1622. 70 It is not clear why appraisers … for closure of public houses on Sundays. 387 A mechanics' institute, established in 1838 with 160 members, was given …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and the right to deliver and return royal writs, the king's officers being forbidden entry into the bishop's manors … 159 Inmates, chiefly vagrants, petty criminals, and 'lewd women', seldom numbered more than four or five, and came from … included a few paupers until 1832, and both men and women until 1854, though by then the asylum catered chiefly …
A History of the County of Oxford
… east, and almost certainly it long predated the borough's foundation. 1 The ecclesiastical parish, conterminous with … probably an error, arising possibly from the parish church's location just outside the borough boundary within Curbridge … was among the wealthiest in the bishop of Winchester's gift, attracting influential non-residents whose prolonged …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the growing centrality of Nonconformity to the town's social and civic as well as religious life (Figs. 546). An … boosted by Americans from Brize Norton airbase. Women deacons were nominated by the 1940s, and in 1969 a … the Briscoe family of Alvescot and Lew. Separate men's and women's meetings were held throughout. 83 During the earlier …
A History of the County of Oxford
… probably with a group centred on the Greenwood family's manor house at Brize Norton: a priest from there tried to … 1767 ten out of twelve recusants recorded in Witney were women, including a shopkeeper, mantua-maker, publican, and tailor's wife. 6 Two or three Catholic families remained in 1802, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Somerset, 28 miles (W.) from Somerton, and 155 (W. by S.) from London; containing 2984 inhabitants. This place is … Wiveliscombe in the Cathedral of Wells, valued in the king's books at 27. 0. 10.; net income, 300. The church is a very … by John Westend in 1451, are occupied by sixteen men and women, who receive a small allowance of fuel; and at …
A History of the County of Essex
… at Wivenhoe heath was bought and the yearly rent of £2 10 s. was used to buy material for gowns. In the early 19th … the number of beneficiaries increased until 1867 when 51 women and 17 men each received an average of 3 yd. of … trustees land in Rebow Road for six almshouses for single women or widows, preferably sailors' widows. She en- dowed …
A History of the County of Essex
… third highest in Lexden hundred, 20 reflecting Wivenhoe's growth as a port whose develop- ment was linked with the … employed in dressmaking and 65 in tailoring, many of them women doing outwork for Col- chester clothing firms. … 34 Colchester Manu- facturing Co. Ltd. employed c. 25 women making clothing from 1935 until c. 1946 at its factory …
A History of the County of Essex
… a post office by 1853, probably the one which was in Queen's Road in 1887, and a sub post office at Wivenhoe Cross by … settlement. 23 The place name, Wivenhoe, meaning Wifa's ridge or spur of land, 24 suggests early Anglo-Saxon … Library facilities were provided consecutively by a Free Institute 1872-82, a Reading Club 1883-1914, and by the …