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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… head of a union, in the hundred of Witham, N. division of Essex, 8 miles (N. E. by E.) from Chelmsford, and 37 (N. E. … with the river Blackwater, on the main road from London to Colchester. It is of respectable appearance, and consists … of the Eastern Counties railway, 12 miles from that of Colchester. In 1846 an act was passed for a railway from …
A History of the County of Oxford
… wool was reportedly brought from as far as Canterbury, Colchester, Norwich, and Leicester, collected in London and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of them were at first local people, the appointment of an Essex man as surveyor and inspector in 1896 marking a shift …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Lexden and Winstree, Colchester division of the hundred of Lexden, N. division of Essex, 4 miles (S. E. by E.) from Colchester; containing 1599 inhabitants. The village is …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… and small town on the left bank of the Colne, 3 m. S.E. of Colchester. The church, Wivenhoe Hall and the house (6) are …
A History of the County of Essex
… contributed to the upkeep of the houses after 1959. Colchester borough council gave a loan to help with the … Char. Com. file. 32nd Rep. Com. Char. p. 651; White's Dir. Essex (1863), 145. E.R.O., D/ACR 303, f. 15. Ibid. Q/RSr 1; …
A History of the County of Essex
… not valued in 1291 when it paid 4 s. to St. John's abbey, Colchester, and 2 s. 2 d. to St. Osyth's priory. 7 The … rector 1750-71, was also perpetual curate of St. Giles's Colchester 1749-71, and rector of Paglesham 1752-71. A friend … 193; Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), i. 444. Smith, Eccl. Hist. Essex, 312. C. Hodgson, Queen Anne's Bounty, pp. cxxxix, …
A History of the County of Essex
… develop- ment was linked with the expanding economy of Colchester. 21 Between 1381 and 1560 from 20 to 29 Wivenhoe men became Colchester bur- gesses. 22 By the 17th century shipbuilding, … kept originally for dairying as well as wool, as in other Essex marshland parishes where grazing in salt meadows gave …
A History of the County of Essex
… 296; E.R.O., D/P 30/28/19. E.C.S. 5 Jan. 1844; P.O. Dir. Essex (1845). Kelly's Dir. Essex (1866-1922). Return Elementary Educ. 1871, H.C. 201, p. … 12. Gordon, Wivenhoe Congregational Ch. 30-4. Kelly's Dir. Essex (1866, 1870). …
A History of the County of Essex
… THE ancient parish of Wivenhoe, c. 3 miles south-east of Colchester on the east bank of the river Colne where it … port in the south-west corner of the parish, which served Colchester from the 16th century or earlier until the 19th, … transferred to Colchester bor- ough. 89 By 1990 all of the Essex University site at Wivenhoe park had been removed from …