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A History of the County of Sussex
… PROTESTANT NONCONFORMITY. The Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion, after an unsuccessful attempt to establish … and improved by 1817, 86 there was a Sunday school of 80 children c. 1826, 87 and the chapel was enlarged and … and 276 evening worshippers and c. 130 Sunday school children. 89 The chapel was apparently renovated c. 1890, but …
A History of the County of Sussex
… by 1811, and a master of ceremonies c. 1813. 19 Worthing's original promenade was the sands, but by 1811 they had been … at the junction of High and Warwick streets, and Stafford's Marine library, west of what was later the Steyne Hotel. 31 … St. James's Hall in which leading artists appeared, and children's concerts in the Theatre Royal. 67 Meanwhile open …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of the wapentake of Skyrack, W. riding of York, 3 miles (S.) from Wetherby; containing 19 inhabitants. It comprises … 12. per annum, a moiety of which is applied in teaching children, and the other in the maintenance of five poor … bequeathed by Elizabeth Martindale, is applied in teaching children. On Leigh down, about a mile from Failand's Inn, in …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… Writtle 109. WRITTLE. (E.c.) (O.S. 6 in. (a)xliii. S.E. (b)lii. N.W. (c)lii. N.E. (d)li. S.E. … headdresses, three with pomanders; three groups of children, indent of inscription plate; (2) of Edward Bowland, … helm, and of woman in veiled horned head-dress, four children, inscription and two shields; top of slab missing, …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… original line of Watling Street: the boundary - the 'king's boundary' - diverged northwards from the road at Overley … in 1841, 1,380 in 1961, and 2,105 in 1981, 2 Admaston's growth largely accounting for an increase in the 1960s. … south and roughly doubled in size. Admaston, 'Eadmund's tun', 10 grew in the mid 18th century from a rural village …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at 7. 8. 6., and in the patronage of the Crown. The … inhabitants. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 3. 7. 8., and in the gift of the Crown; net … by his son, the Rev. Granville Wheeler. A free school for children of both sexes was founded in 1708 by Lady Joanna …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… broad recorded in Domesday. 64 Referred to as the king's wood c. 1130, it was claimed in 1235 to be well stocked … in 1397-8 and 1413-14. 67 The area was still known as King's wood c. 1577. 68 Much of the surviving woodland was … divided) were occupied by 35 cottagers, 12 of them at Pain's Lane. By the early 18th century smallholdings probably …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… because in that 'nursery of sectarianism' upwards of 280 children aged 7-13 were still without instruction, 81 and in … proposals and plans, 86 although it was aware that c. 400 children had no schooling. Anglicans petitioned against the … That year £50 was spent on repairs, a deficit of £47 4 s. 3½ d. being met by the rector, who owned the master's …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… average 180. 51 In 1863 the Wesleyans moved to St. George's and the Nabb chapel closed. 52 In 1824 St. John's Wesleyan chapel, Trench Road, opened. Society membership … seats. Attendance was said to average 150 adults and 70 children. 53 There were 50 adherents in 1910 and 1920, and 80 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… About 1490 the vicarage was worth £8 a year. 74 The vicar's income in 1612 consisted of tithes of wool, lambs, flax, … Edward Pemberton (d. 1680) left a rent charge of £6 13 s. 4 d. for similar purposes; it was discharged for £200 in … In 1843 the seating - with 63 free seats and 110 children's seats, apparently in the galleries - sufficed for …