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A History of the County of Oxford
… WOLVERCOTE, an ancient parish lying on the north-west of the city and liberty of Oxford, c. 2 ½ miles north of the city centre, contained … to join the Thames above King's Weir. 84 The Oxford-Rugby railway line was built through the parish in 1846, and the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Watling Street to Wombridge priory, perhaps on the line of the later Hadley Road. Priorslee probably grew up beside … turn was replaced by a new road to the south-west as part of the Holyhead road improvements. The first part of the new … Queensway, partly built along the former Coalport branch railway, opened northwards to the Hollinswood interchange in …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… probably coppiced; 7 in 1556 there were said to be 38 a. of wood in Wombridge, worth 10 s. an acre. 8 Among the … coppice (82 a.) in Priorslee. 9 By 1847 only 6 a. of wood remained in Wombridge and none in Priorslee. 10 … presumably once open-field land, lay 500 metres south-east of Wombridge church in 1847. 11 Four or five ploughteams …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wombridge Growth of settlement GROWTH OF SETTLEMENT. The original endowment of St. Leonard's priory seems to have consisted of the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Nonconformity NONCONFORMITY. Wombridge. William Charlton of Wombridge (d. 1567) was reputed a papist or sympathizer … expanding population. 24 C. R. Cameron, perpetual curate of Wombridge 1808-56, resisted the nonconformists 25 and, … be demolished in advance of the Wellington-Wolverhampton railway c. 1846. It was replaced by a chapel opened in 1847 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the alehouse was an integral and ever present part of the community. There was an alehouse at Ketley Bank in … in Oakengates. 52 In the earlier 19th century the number of public houses grew as the town expanded, and in 1846 the … until the construction of the Wellington-Wolverhampton railway across it c. 1849, and thereafter at the other end of …
Alumni Oxonienses
… 1600. See Woodhall. Woodarde, Nicholas s. Christopher, of Mechlen in Flanders, gent. Magdalen Hall, matric. 9 Oct., … 1587, D.D. university of Triers, in Germany, 1588, president of Douay college 1599; died in England about 1626. … became Greek reader, fellow college of physicians 1528, president 1541, 1542, 1543, physician to Henry VIII.; died 5 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Mary) WOODCHESTER ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Stroud, hundred of Longtree, E. division of the county of Gloucester, 2 miles … population is employed in making shoes. The Peterborough railway, and the road from Thrapston to Wellingborough and …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woodchester Introduction WOODCHESTER The parish of Woodchester, well known as the site of a Roman villa, 1 lies on the west side of the Nailsworth … running from east to west through North Woodchester. 6 A railway was built in 1867 linking Nailsworth with the main …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Woodditton WOODDITTON Woodditton lies immediately south of Newmarket, 8 a town established c. 1200 astride the road … Woodditton when the boundary was realigned near Newmarket railway station. 20 This account covers the rural part of … 43 In 1953 the estate granted a long lease to the Forestry Commission, which cut down the mature oak, cleared the …