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A History of the County of Sussex
… Worthing Protestant nonconformity PROTESTANT NONCONFORMITY. The Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion, after an unsuccessful … was sold for use as a factory. 14 The New Street chapel on the corner of Graham Road and Montague Street was … in Marine Place in 1865, 34 and there was a preaching or mission room in Montague Street in 1873 35 and 1878, 36 …
A History of the County of Sussex
… and cultural activites Social and cultural activities. The entertainment facilities available to visitors to … by 1811 they had been replaced by the Steyne, 20 modelled on that at Brighton. A band played there during the 1812 … Steyne Hotel. 31 By 1859 the number had increased to four or five. 32 In 1802 Thomas Trotter, a travelling …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wothersome - Wrayton Wothersome WOTHERSOME, a township, in the parish of Bardsey, Lower division of the wapentake of … Hill, and comprises 4176 acres, of which 563 are common or waste. The soil is various. The lands are watered by two … considerable woods of oak, ash, beech, hazel, and birch. On the summit of Leith Hill, which is the highest in the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… about 2 miles N.E. of Brill, is built of rubble, that in the walls of the chancel being coursed; the roofs are covered with lead. A 12th-century church possibly existed on the site, as a lintel over the W. doorway of the Nave is … square shafts, and another stack at the E. end is probably old, but is hidden by ivy. Two rooms have original …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… and historical monuments in Buckinghamshire Woughton-on-the-Green 228. WOUGHTON-ON-THE-GREEN. (O.S. 6 in. xv. N.W.) … which have moulded capitals and bases; they are modern or entirely restored, but the design is of the 14th century. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… WREA, Lancashire.See Ribby. Wreay WREAY, a chapelry, in the parish of St. Mary, union of Carlisle, Cumberland ward, … stained glass. The reading-desk is formed of an eagle, on whose spread-out wings the chesnut-bound Bible and … the butt of a black oak, cut in imitation of the sigilaria or antediluvian palm-tree; and the clerk's desk, on the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… is a large parish and village 2 m. W. of Chelmsford. The Church, Moor Hall and Aubyns are the principal monuments. … wall is an arcade of two bays, generally similar to that on the N.; further E. is a 15th-century window, now blocked, … a four-centred head with a moulded label, all of late 15th or early 16th-century date, set in 14th-century splays.and …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… detached piece of woodland, later a township, belonging to the manor and parish of Wrockwardine, the rest of which lay 7 … and western boundaries followed no natural features or roads for any significant distance. On the south it was bounded by Watling Street. The northern …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… HISTORY. Wrockwardine Wood was probably identical with the woodland 1 league long and ½ league broad recorded in … 65 It was within the royal forest of Mount Gilbert or the Wrekin. By c. 1290 assarting had begun, and it may … in 1754. 69 The woodland then remaining, at the Nabb and on Cockshutt Piece, was coppiced 70 but by 1847 virtually no …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wrockwardine Charities for the poor CHARITIES FOR THE POOR. Various benefactions made … the land's value in 1670 by building a house and barn on it. The parish workhouse was built on the site c. 1801 but … it was £35 a year, from the four cottages 93 to which the old workhouse had been converted. 94 By her will of 1675 …