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A History of the County of Oxford
… Book rebellion, which had spread to Oxfordshire from the West Country, but no Witney townsmen seem to have been … about 1930 in the former Anglican schoolroom at West End, a small, plain, stone building erected in 1881; at …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wittenham, Little - Witton, West Wittenham, Little (St. Peter) WITTENHAM, LITTLE ( St. … Wittering, East WITTERING, EAST, a parish, in the union of West Hampnett, hundred of Manhood, rape of Chichester, W. … to the vicarage by Bishop Shirborne, in 1518. Wittering, West WITTERING, WEST, a parish, in the union of West …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the articles consists chiefly of clothing for the West India markets, swanskins for the Newfoundland fishery, … the North Devon breed, considered to be the largest in the west of England, is held on the last Tuesday in February; and … the tythings of Croford, Langley, Nunnington, Oakhampton, West-Town, and East and West Whitefield; comprising 5790 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… built c. 1340 and the South Arcade and Aisle c. 1350. The West Tower was added c. 1500. The church was extensively … 14th-century splays and moulded two-centred rear-arch. The West Tower (12 ft. by 10 ft.) is of c. 1500 and of three …
A History of the County of Essex
… road was exchanged for a slightly larger area of the south-west of Elmstead parish. In 1986 the part of Wivenhoe on the west side of the Colne was transferred to St. Barnabas's, Old … house had been replaced by one built c. 200 metres north-west in Rectory Road, which was described as good in 1841, …
A History of the County of Essex
… the flock seems to have been shared with Battleswick in West Donyland (Col- chester). 27 The lord's common at … of the Alresford road, and Wivenhoe wood in the south-west beside the Colne. Field names suggest there was once … road, and that gravel and sand were extracted in the west of the parish. 70 In 1633 there was a sandpit, …
A History of the County of Essex
… respectively, in 1966 and 1971 off Heath Road in the north-west of the parish, 8 the children transferred from the … 10 A Nonconformist schoolroom for 20 pupils opened behind West Street in 1807. 11 In 1833 it had 130 boys who each paid … the newly-built Congre- gational church on the corner of West Street and Quay Street. The school closed in 1853 and …
A History of the County of Essex
… covered 1,549 a. (627 ha.). 85 Its port in the south-west corner of the parish, which served Colchester from the … boundaries were formed by streams on the east and north-west, Wivenhoe and Whit- more heaths on the north-east, and the river Colne and its marshes on the west and south. In 1734 woodland formed part of the eastern …
A History of the County of Essex
… council built houses on the former Corsellis Park estate west of The Avenue. 74 By 1960 eight bungalows and 13 flats … it quickly; it was replaced in 1990 by one built on the west side of Colchester Road at Wivenhoe Cross. 82 From 1847 … water from the borehole to a water tower in Tower Road west of Wivenhoe Cross. 88 The council sold the waterworks in …
A History of the County of Essex
… 1961. 2 The manor house, Wivenhoe Hall, built just north-west of the church c. 1530, had a tower gateway used as a sea … prospect of Wivenhoe in 1734, with Wivenhoe Hall on the west Wivenhoe Park was built for Isaac Martin Rebow in 1759 … which was extended by semi-circular bays to the east and west. The principal floor was raised above a basement and the …