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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… are waste. The vicarial tithes have been commuted for 35, and the impropriate for 30. Widdington (St. Mary) WIDDINGTON … 2 r. 37 p., of which 1375 acres are arable, 337 pasture, and 248 woodland. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 25, and in the gift of W. J. Campbell, Esq.: the tithes have been …
Alumni Oxonienses
… M.A. 27 Jan., 1613-14; vice-principal of Gloucester Hall, and chaplain to Katharine, Duchess of Buckingham, rector of … at Gloucester. 1640, ejected, became minister of Woodstock and master of the school there, and finally at Northleach, co. Gloucester, where he died, …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… comb', which Randle Holme described as 'haueing round open and strong teeth' [Holme (2000)]. The occupation of wig … pb 1989), Holme (2000). Wildbore A WORSTED, made stouter and more closely woven than TAMMY, but finished without a … card Almost certainly a piece or pieces of CARD so cut and shaped that when fastened by a pin to a stick it would …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… The parish is situated on the Great Ouse river, and comprises 1275 a. 1 r. 34 p., of which 543 acres are arable, and 677 meadow and pasture. The surface is flat; a considerable portion lies …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire
… are tiled. In 1881 the church was completely restored, and there is not enough old detail remaining to determine the … date of the original building. It consisted of a Chancel and an aisleless Nave, of which the plan has remained unaltered, and a West Chamber, added in the 15th century, now forming an …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… (O.S. 6 in. (a)VI, N.E., (b)VI, S.W.) Wigmore is a parish and village 9 m. N.W. of Leominster. The church, the castle, and Chapel Farm are the principal monuments. Ecclesiastical … of the parish. The walls are of local sandstone rubble and ashlar with dressings of the same material and tufa; the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 1050 acres, in full cultivation; the surface is pleasing, and the village, though small, is neatly built, and of rural aspect. The tithes have been commuted for 14. 3. … to the vicar of Thorner, 41. 7. to the vicar of Harewood, and 39 to the vicar of Bardsey. A school for ten children is …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… 1160 hectares, lies approximately midway between Corby and Market Harborough, Leicestershire. The S. third of the … OD, except in the extreme S. where sands, lime-stones and clays are exposed in the valley of the E. flowing … have exposed narrow outcrops of limestones, silts, sands and clays, while beyond, in the extreme N., the land rises …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… miles east of York, on the east bank of the river Derwent and astride the Escrick moraine. 1 Newton village lies on the … stream. Newton was first mentioned at the same time and its suffix was added in the 13th century. 2 The … a., of which Wilberfoss township accounts for 1,472 a. and Newton 1,713 a. 3 Newton and Wilberfoss civil parishes …
A History of the County of Oxford
… suggests that the parish was an independent agrarian unit, and the division of a small freeholding in the early 17th … south. The former bore the collective name Wilcote fields, and presumably comprised several fields once grouped together … 45 An instruction of 1593 that land was to be ploughed and sown 'according to the use of the fields' 46 implies that …