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A History of the County of Shropshire
… of Wombridge 1808-56, resisted the nonconformists 25 and, save for the Wesleyan chapel at Ketley Bank, no … established in his parish during his time. In the 1840s and 1850s, however, Primitive Methodist, Congregational, and … Bourne also preached near the town that year. Oakengates bull ring was regularly used for open-air preaching until …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wombridge Social and cultural activities SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES. As … focus of activity being the pubs along the main street. 55 Bull baiting was among the more notorious entertainments, and … when it moved to Donnington. 60 Neither cock fighting nor bull baiting was confined to the wakes. In the early 19th …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… Ancient and historical monuments in Buckinghamshire Wooburn 99. … 12th-century date; c. 1360 the North Chapel was added, and the Chancel was probably re-built at the same time. The … generally much restored; the roofs are tiled. (58). The Bull Inn retains some of the original brick and timber at the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Brictric's estate at that time. 8 In 1297 50 a. of arable and small acreages of pasture and meadow were recorded on the manorial demesne, 9 which was … and staircase and reoriented, the garden was altered, and gate-posts were added. Further service rooms were added c. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… in 1540. Presentations were made by the Crown in 1342-3 and 1370, and (under royal grant) by Mary (née de Brewes), countess of Norfolk, in 1346 and 1350. 13 From 1540 the advowson descended with the …
A History of the County of Essex
… at the northern end of Becontree hundred. Its western and northern boundaries ran through Epping Forest, part of … was amalgamated with that of Wanstead, to the south, and in 1937 the borough of Wanstead and Woodford was formed. … Corinthian pilasters and a segmental pediment. Impressive gate-piers with stone urns flanked the drive entrance and the …
A History of the County of Essex
… Angrices burne (the river Roding) to ealdermannes hcce and cynges hcce. If the last was Chingford Hatch, the … must have been in the south-west corner of Woodford; 2 a gate called Grovehacche, near Hall Grove, close to the point where the vills of Walthamstow, Wanstead, and Woodford met, was mentioned in 1414. 3 The manor granted …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 13. 1. 10., and in the patronage of the Crown: the tithes have been commuted for 482, and the glebe comprises 18 acres. The church is principally … of the palace, erecting the front and the principal gate-house. This gatehouse was for some time the place of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… until the 1930s. They were listed in a survey of 1279 and as 'the king's rents' in 1468-9. 48 Later the corporation … By the early 18th century the house was an inn, the Pied Bull, 63 and remained so until acquired c. 1802 by Joseph … House In 1279 the site may have been that next to the park gate for which Robert Marshall paid 4 d. rent. 56 Later it …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1488). 77 In 1551 the corporation bought the chantry house and undertook to use it for three or four almsmen, but the site was later found inconvenient and in the 1590s the house was taken over for the town … Churchill agreed to build six more near Hensington Gate and to take a lease of the first building. The plan was …