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A History of the County of Stafford
… 14th century, when the bounds of land belonging to Hawk's Yard, west of Bank House, included places then called … 72 Houses there were probably the cause of the township's rapid growth in population in the early 19th century. The … into a church and a school in 1842. 74 The present Butcher's Arms inn, so called by 1834, existed by the later 1820s. 75 …
A History of the County of Stafford
… an adjacent site in the later 1890s. 82 The site of Badger's Croft further west was probably inhabited by 1308, when … of Alstonefield manor. The house was known as Butcher's or Badger's Croft in the 18th century. 83 A house called … Ralph Gylmen of Merril Grove in Heathylee bequeathed a lamb for 'God's service' at Longnor, probably an indication …
A History of the County of Stafford
… certainly stood on the site of Nield Bank, 95 and Dun Cow's Grove was recorded as Duncote Greave in 1600. 96 Gamballs … of that name in Quarnford which was the centre of the area's button trade. 20 Obadiah Tunnicliff, who was living at … been partly incorporated into a printed version of Lomas's diary, published in 1848. 52 On Census Sunday 1851 there …
A History of the County of Stafford
… suit at the manor court in 1769 was 58. 72 The township's population in 1801 was 391, rising to 467 in 1811. It was … the market place called the Board in 1850 and the Butcher's Arms in 1860 became the Grapes c. 1866. 81 A horse post … There were boys' and girls' boarding schools by the 1840's and a solicitor lived in the village in 1864. 88 Longnor's …
A History of the County of Stafford
… was opened north-east of the village in 1959. 18 A Women's Institute was formed in 1962. 19 The belief that coins were … may have originated in the early 13th century, when Hugh's grandfather owned a park in Quarnford. 23 Hugh Despenser … Quarnford to Sir Roger Swynnerton, along with Despenser's share of Alstonefield manor and his manor of Rushton …
A History of the County of Stafford
… result of mining at Ecton, in Wetton, 37 and the township's population was 731 in 1801, 828 in 1811, and 854 in 1821. … Mining at Ecton declined in the 1820s, and by 1831 Warslow's population had fallen to 696. Mining in Warslow itself … there are views down the Manifold valley as far as Thor's Cave in Wetton may explain the first part of its name, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… HISTORY Agriculture Open Fields and Commons Alwoldsbury's field or fields were mentioned in 12467. 1 No later … to Pitlands or Puttes referred only to land in Alvescot's fields then held with Pitlands farm. 4 10. Alvescot parish … fields In the 18th century and probably earlier Alvescot's open fields lay chiefly north of the KencotBlack Bourton …
A History of the County of Warwick
… as 966. 11 Domesday records three mills here, worth 40 s. and 12 sticks and 1,000 of eels. 12 In 1240 there were two … in 1570. 16 The settlement of the same estate which Edmund's grandson Thomas made at the time of his marriage in 1650 … commuted and they paid relatively high rents, mostly 7 s. in Alveston and 6 s. in Tiddington, for a virgate, which …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in the parish of Old Swinford, union of Stourbridge, S. division of the hundred of Seisdon and of the county of … Kendal ward and union, county of Westmorland, 25 miles (W. S. W.) from Appleby, and 274 (N. W. by N.) from London; … devices in plaster, and among the rest one of the paschal lamb. Amcotts AMCOTTS, a chapelry, in the parish of Althorp, …
History Theses 1970-2014: Historical research for higher degrees in the universities of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland
… policy borrowing: aspects of the development of Ontario's system of public instruction, 1844-76. Cohen, Jessica E. … 18441876 Eve in the renegade city: elite Jewish women's philanthropy in Chicago, 1890-1900 . Farmer, Hannah M. … change and diffusion in the generalware branch, 1872-1914. Lamb, A. McG. Ph.D., London. Supervised by Potter, J. America …