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A History of the County of Shropshire
… court baron survive from 1697, 1708, 1711, 1717, and 1747, the matters dealt with being mainly agricultural. 12 The … 1816. The number of immigrant workers in Wombridge led to numerous settlement disputes. 19 Wombridge was included in … 20 Priorslee was in Shifnal union 1836-1930. 21 By the early 1890s four fifths of Oakengates town lay in …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… a papist or sympathizer with papists. 22 Samuel Campion, the minister ejected from Hodnet in 1660, held Sunday … in the 20th century. A United Church was formed in 1981 by the Methodists and United Reformed Church. About 1764 a … Cartlidge, op. cit. 78. S.R.O. 972, parcel 235, plan of proposed schoolrm. (watermark 1857). Cf. P.O. Dir. Salop. …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… wood ashes] Not to be confused with WEED ASH, these are the residues of ASHES from burning WOOD. This crude form of … date of use: 1748 Found in units of BUSHEL Found rated by the HUNDREDWEIGHT of 112 LB, LAST of 12 BARREL, … which was used for EMBROIDERY and to make into various articles of HABERDASHERY such as BINDING and TAPE. Much of …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… evidence shows that there was a church there in the 12th century. 52 The living was a rectory in 1320 53 and … until the 19th century 54 although presentations were made by Edmund Bereford in 1352 and by William Zouche in 1395 and … by Charles Hooper of Eastington (d. 1869), 57 who gave it to Simeon's trustees, 58 the patrons in 1972. 59 The living …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… parish, is treated under Minchinhampton. 8 Elizabeth Seys, by will dated 1705, left £400 to pay three or four poor women of the parish to teach girls. By 1718 the sum had increased to … number of schools had increased to nine and c. 1828 it was proposed to reduce their number and to find teachers of …
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 … from its parent parishes of Exning and Woodditton by stages: All Saints was created as a chapelry of Woodditton by 1336 to serve the Cambridgeshire part of the town; 11 by the 18th …
The Environs of London
… Quantity of land. Soil. This place was so called from the ford in the wood, where Woodford-bridge now is. It lies … and a half from Whitechapel church. The parish is bounded by Chigwell, Chingford, Walthamstow, Wanstead, and Barking. … loam. Land-tax. This parish pays the sum of 374l. 12s. to the land-tax, which is at the rate of about one shilling …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Woodford WOODFORD The ancient parish of Woodford lies between Salisbury and … side of the River Avon. The parish is bounded on the east by the winding course of the river and on the west by the old turnpike road from Salisbury to Devizes along the top of the down. 1 The parish includes …
A History of the County of Essex
… school at Woodford, apparently Anglican, where most of the children of the poor were taught and clothed charitably. 1 By 1807, if not before, the only Sunday school was being held … school of industry. By 1818 attendance had fallen from 90 to 69 and some supporters withdrew their subscriptions on the …
A History of the County of Essex
… parish of 2,146 a., 1 lying about 8 miles north-east of the City of London, at the northern end of Becontree hundred. … the urban district was amalgamated with that of Wanstead, to the south, and in 1937 the borough of Wanstead and … side of Woodford is a ridge about 200 ft. high, now marked by the High Road. From this the parish slopes gently …