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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… ESTATE was formed in the 16th century, adding Ditton Park wood perhaps between 1559 and 1571. 79 Richard Eaton of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… was once known as Little, Blakesley, Blakesley Parva or Wood Blakesley. The modern village consists of a single …
The Environs of London
… land. Soil. This place was so called from the ford in the wood, where Woodford-bridge now is. It lies in the hundred of … roofs and fronts of houses; for making pendant frames for hay-ricks and stacks of corn; and safeguards to preserve them … Woodford. Parliamentary Surveys, Lambeth MS. Library. Ant. Wood's Athen. Oxon. vol. ii. Sir Thomas Stepney, who was …
A History of the County of Essex
… Woodford was densely wooded. 1 Monkhams was originally all wood, and there also pannage was important. 2 Some clearances … rent 8 and sent one man to work in the lord's meadow at hay-time and two or three men to the boon works, but more … district round Woodford and Chingford was known as the 'Hay Country', 19 and in 1905 there were still 523 a. of …
A History of the County of Essex
… fringe the High Road and Woodford New Road. Knighton wood in the north covers 37 a., and the north-western corner … break-up of the Wanstead House estate in 1882, the great wood at Woodford was felled and the land brought under …
A History of the County of Essex
… endowed the abbey of Stratford Langthorne with his wood of Buckhurst in 1135, 67 and this became known as … the tenement called Buckhurst alias Monkhill and the wood called Monkgrove to Alderman Sir John Lyon of London and … 18th centuries. 87 John Hill of Enfield (Mdx.) felled wood there from at least 1718 until 1733 88 when he mortgaged …
A History of the County of Essex
… the common mead, 'the Parson's Grove', and another acre of wood on the north side of Jack of Lea's Grove. 20 In 1840 … and became vicar of Walthamstow in 1557. 23 Richard Wood (156189) was listed in 1585 among Essex's non-preaching … increased, members built their own temporary church of wood in Chigwell Road in 1957. This was constituted Broadmead …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… which 788 are arable, 384 meadow, pasture, and down, 169 wood, and 65 furze, waste, &c. Here is a mansion, built in …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… 1706. Royal Arms: In naveat W. end, Stuart arms of 1660 on wood. ConditionFairly good, some decayed stonework and some …