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The Environs of London
… Situation. Boundaries. Quantity of land. Soil. This place was so called from the ford in the wood, where … under the title of Plant Woodfordienses. He claims a place also among dramatic writers, having translated several … and some grammatical works, was a school-master at this place; he was afterwards under-master of St. Paul's school …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… house built by William Green and known as 'le Court place'. 68 A new house was built between 1660 and 1690, and … Bowles at Heale for three weeks in 1783. He thought it 'a place which might furnish without any help from fiction the … the common flock. Since then the sheep have yielded their place to cattle, all the downland has been fenced, and much …
A History of the County of Essex
… 47 A second move, to Pyrmont House, Woodford Green, took place at the end of the First World War. In 1922 the school, …
A History of the County of Essex
… remaining space. Yet Woodford remains a green and leafy place. Many of the estates are of the garden-suburb type. … was 1,745. This indicates the residential character of the place, since inhabitants of purely agricultural villages of … laid out for housing estates. 40 Some building took place in the extreme north of the parish, more at the …
A History of the County of Essex
… slated. 64 CHRIST CHURCH CHRIST CHURCH mission, Burlington Place, also in All Saints parish, was an iron building opened …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Woodhall Spa, in September, 1847. The Presbyterians have a place of worship in the parish. Woodhall, York.See … E.) from Bishop-Auckland; containing 207 inhabitants. This place was honoured by a visit from James VI. of Scotland, on … The Independents and Primitive Methodists have each a place of worship. In the parish was anciently a palace …
A History of the County of Sussex
… always to have been described as in Woodmancote. 54 The place name Eaton Thorn, previously Heathen Thorn, on the … parish, including the sites of settlement at Woodmancote Place, Blackstone, Bilsborough, Wick Farmhouse, and Nutknowle … parks in the 19th century and earlier 20th at Woodmancote Place, 69 and at Bramlands in the south-west corner of the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… passes near the township, and has a commodious landing-place for coal, lime, and gravel; on its banks are some … a lofty artificial mount, supposed by some to be either a place where the Saxon idol Woden was worshipped, or the burial-place of Vortimer; whilst others state it to be the …