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A History of the County of Stafford
… from 1844 in a schoolchurch, converted from a stable and cowshed and licensed at the request of the newly-appointed incumbent … Sunday services, one taken by a curate from Christ Church and the other by a curate from St. Modwen's, in Burton. …
A History of the County of Stafford
… along the Burton-Lichfield road. There is much 19th- and 20th-century housing along Clays Lane north of the village and along Burton Road to the east. Elsewhere the land is … south-east the boundary runs down the middle of the Trent, and the first part of the southern boundary with Tatenhill …
A History of the County of Stafford
… estates which the abbey lost in the early 11th century, and in 1066 it was held by Godgifu ( Godiva), the widow of … by the Crown after the earldom was abolished c. 1070, and was certainly held by the abbey in 1086, when it was … the Crown. 13 Branston became a tithing in Burton manor, and after the dissolution of the abbey and then of Burton …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Thomas Snow was returned as a papist in 1657, and again in 1667 along with another man and a woman. 6 Snow was one of three people in Branston … chapel was built on the north side of Main Street in 1834, and the average attendance in 1851 was 73 adults, besides …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Lower division of the hundred of Oswaldslow, Worcester and W. divisions of the county of Worcester, 3 miles (N. W.) … In this hamlet is a chapel of ease, dedicated to Christ, and built by subscription in 1836. A meeting-house was erected by Lady Huntingdon's Connexion, in 1825; and there is also a national school. Broadhembury (St. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… two founders, William Smyth, Bishop of Lincoln (d. 1514) and Richard Sutton, serjeant-atlaw and steward of the nunnery of Syon (d. 1524). Ralph Churton, … published The Lives of William Smyth, Bishop of Lincoln and Sir Richard Sutton Knight in 1800, was not able to trace …
A History of the County of Somerset
… corner is marked by a possible prehistoric earthwork 2 and part of the common boundary with Yarlington south of the village is marked by a bank and double ditch. 3 In 1839 the parish measured 1,094 a. 4 In … Musgrove. 5 In 1981 the area was 601 ha. (1,485 a.) and, after transfer of land to Wincanton in 1982, was in 1991 …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Bray with the borough of Maidenhead Churches and charities CHURCHES The church of ST. MICHAEL consists of … usually paid to the vicar for St. Mary's coal and clothing clubs and 5 to each of the other clothing clubs in the borough, 10 a year in special cases of distress, …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Bray with the borough of Maidenhead Introduction, borough and manors BRAY with the BOROUGH OF MAIDENHEAD The parish of … which 2,208 are arable land, 4,690 under permanent grass and 492 woodland, 1 lies between Maidenhead and Windsor. The subsoil is Reading and London clay, but …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Brechin - Byth (New) Brechin BRECHIN, a burgh, market-town, and parish, in the county of Forfar, 8 miles (W. by N.) from Montrose, and 66 (N. N. E.) from Edinburgh; containing, with the … stipend is 70, paid partly by seat-rents and partly by two societies, with a house rent-free. The members of the Free …