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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wombleton - Woodbury Wombleton WOMBLETON, a township, in the parish of Kirkdale, union of Helmsley, wapentake of … Helmsley to Kirkby-Moorside. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans. John Stockton, in 1839, left 10 per annum for … 1846. There are places of worship for Baptists, the Society of Friends, Independents, and Wesleyans. The free …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wombridge Churches CHURCHES. During the Middle Ages St. Leonard's priory presumably served the … still owed the Crown the 'king's rent' of £2 6 s. 8 d. for the maintenance of a minister, 51 but before his death in 1642 he …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… LL. D., was licensed as deacon and schoolmaster in the parish. 49 By 1833 20 boys and 21 girls were attending … Collins, vicar 1872-8, 52 tried in vain to raise money for a new church school at Ketley Bank where 250 children … Oliver's 82 expense aided by parliamentary and National Society grants; Oliver (d. 1867) left the school an endowment …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… a papist or sympathizer with papists. 22 Samuel Campion, the minister ejected from Hodnet in 1660, held Sunday … 1808-56, resisted the nonconformists 25 and, save for the Wesleyan chapel at Ketley Bank, no nonconformist … and United Reformed Church. About 1764 a Wesleyan society was established at Ketley Bank by J. W. Fletcher, …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES. As almost everywhere in the coalfield the alehouse was an integral and ever present … in market gardens around London would traditionally return for the wakes, some with dowries. 57 Horse and donkey races … or later. 62 By 1808 there was a brotherly or friendly society at Oakengates, perhaps that which met in the Leopard …
Alumni Oxonienses
… minister in Salisbury, and at Newbury, Berks, ejected 1662 for nonconformity, chaplain to Charles II., silenced by the act of conformity; died at Inglefield, Berks, 1 Nov., … India Company's minister at Poplar 1689, "a member of the society for reformation of marines," rector and vicar of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Mary) WOODCHESTER ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Stroud, hundred of Longtree, E. division of the … pavement, of which an engraving was exhibited to the Society of Antiquaries by Samuel Lysons, Esq., F.S.A., who … in the gift of Lord Ducie: the tithes have been commuted for 265; there is a parsonage-house, and the glebe comprises …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… dated 1705, left £400 to pay three or four poor women of the parish to teach girls. By 1718 the sum had increased to … the estate, which was then worth £80 a year, being used for additional expenses of the larger schools. 10 By 1824 the … and the yearly income applied as follows: £80 for the maintenance of the school, to be known as the Woodchester …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woodchester Introduction WOODCHESTER The parish of Woodchester, well known as the site of a Roman … having a station, situated just inside Rodborough parish, for Woodchester. The line was closed for passenger traffic in … has been recorded as an inn since 1766 when a friendly society met there. 35 A friendly society continued to meet …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Until inclosure c. 1816 open-field arable occupied the centre of the parish, between heath in the north-west and … Ditton Camoys in 1291 had 32 villeins each holding 15 a. for weekwork and other services, and free tenants and molmen … a milkman, baker, butcher, and the Newmarket Co-operative Society's van, to supplement weekly shopping trips to …