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A History of the County of Essex
… Wivenhoe Charities for the poor WIVENHOE THE ancient parish of Wivenhoe, c. 3 miles … of the river, had become dangerous, and there were demands for a bridge. 2 A temporary bridge, opened by George V in …
A History of the County of Essex
… Wivenhoe Local government LOCAL GOVERNMENT From 1246 the lords of Wivenhoe manor were entitled to free warren in … higher. 50 In the 16th century bequests were often made for relieving the poor, 51 and weekly collections are recorded for poor relief from 1577; regular cash payments and relief …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Andrew) WOLLASTON ( St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Chepstow, hundred of Westbury, W. division of … who, after a judicial combat at Salisbury, was executed for high treason, was lord of the principal part of this … of a romantic succession of small hills, studded with plantations and old oaks, and forming an agreeable contrast …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was administered independently of Wolvercote from the Middle Ages; its economic organization is described below. There is no early evidence for the open fields of Wolvercote, which seem to have been … in 1358 may have been part of the process: in return for land at Ailmerswell, Horestone, and Hawsland ditch in the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Introduction WOLVERCOTE, an ancient parish lying on the north-west of the city and liberty of Oxford, c. 2 ½ … small streams on part of the north, and field boundaries for the rest. The extra-parochial area of Godstow (411 a.), … Synopsis, 23 Oct., 27 Nov. 1790. Rep. on Navigation and Trade upon Thames and Isis (1793) H.C. 1st. ser. xiv, p. 233; …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wombleton - Woodbury Wombleton WOMBLETON, a township, in the parish of Kirkdale, union of Helmsley, wapentake of … Helmsley to Kirkby-Moorside. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans. John Stockton, in 1839, left 10 per annum for … 391 are rough marsh, turf-grounds, &c., 115 wood and plantations, 72 heath, and 151 water, the last comprehending …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. Agriculture. By the mid 16th century what woodland remained in Wombridge and … unrealistically low: a cottage rented from the estate for £2 was sublet for £6 10 s., and five cottages with a … Pemberton & Stokes (Eardington forge) for forge iron. 54 Trade at Snedshill was apparently similar to that at …
Alumni Oxonienses
… minister in Salisbury, and at Newbury, Berks, ejected 1662 for nonconformity, chaplain to Charles II., silenced by the act of conformity; died at Inglefield, Berks, 1 Nov., … Stanton Fitzwarren, Wilts, 1625; see Foster's Index Eccl.; for an account of his son John, see Calamy, i. 292; & …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woodchester Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY: Agriculture. The details of the estate held by Edward, sheriff of … at harvest time. 12 Customary tenements were held by copy for three lives but tenancies at will were also recorded in … Harrison and worked by Thomas Sykes in 1818. 25 Other Trade and Industry. Apart from farming and the cloth industry …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… south of Newmarket, 8 a town established c. 1200 astride the road forming the parish boundary between Woodditton and … almost immediately and continued into the 1990s, when, not for the first time, a further boundary extension was being … since in 1086 the western manor, Ditton Camoys, had land for 16 ploughteams but only 5 at work. 28 The c. 650 a. of …