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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wiveliscombe - Wolford, Little Wiveliscombe (St. Andrew) WIVELISCOMBE ( St. Andrew), a market-town and parish, in the union of … of Somerset, 28 miles (W.) from Somerton, and 155 (W. by S.) from London; containing 2984 inhabitants. This place is …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… Wivenhoe 98. WIVENHOE. (D.d.) (O.S. 6 in. xxxvii. N.W.) Wivenhoe is a parish and small town on the left bank of the Colne, 3 m. S.E. of Colchester. The church, Wivenhoe Hall and the house … principal monuments. Ecclesiastical (1). Parish Church of St. Mary stands in the town. The walls are of mixed rubble, …
A History of the County of Essex
… at Wivenhoe heath was bought and the yearly rent of £2 10 s. was used to buy material for gowns. In the early 19th … for £41,000 for residential development; in 1974 Feedham's Charity Trust, formed to administer the funds, built seven … in 1749, charged a house and land called Woodhewers in St. Osyth with 50 s. to be distributed to five widows to buy …
A History of the County of Essex
… Wivenhoe on the west side of the Colne was transferred to St. Barnabas's, Old Heath. 5 The value of the rectory was estimated at 4 … 6 The church was not valued in 1291 when it paid 4 s. to St. John's abbey, Colchester, and 2 s. 2 d. to St. Osyth's …
A History of the County of Essex
… third highest in Lexden hundred, 20 reflecting Wivenhoe's growth as a port whose develop- ment was linked with the … of the parish extending into Cockaynes in Elmstead. 24 St. John's abbey, Colchester, owned 120 a. called Withemorhad … assarted land was granted by Eudes the sewer (d. 1120) to St. John's abbey. 36 In 1395 nineteen men paid avesage for …
A History of the County of Essex
… a post office by 1853, probably the one which was in Queen's Road in 1887, and a sub post office at Wivenhoe Cross by … south-east of Wiven- hoe, caused damage in Wivenhoe to St. Mary's church, the Congregational church, the gas- works, … ser.], xxxiv), p. ccxxi; A. Dowden, Monumental Brasses of St. Mary's Church, Wivenhoe, 2-3. Cal. Pat. 1467-77, 317-18. …
A History of the County of Essex
… 12 to 16 jurors. Cases of animals trespassing on the lord's land, breach of the assize of ale, and of infringing the lord's rights of avesage, pannage, and larder were heard; … trading under that name in 1937. The gasworks were in St. John's Road. 92 By 1947 gas was supplied in bulk by …
A History of the County of Essex
… Nigel as a tenant of Robert Gernon. 92 After Robert Gernon's fief had escheated to the Crown, Henry I granted it to … Cal. Inq. p.m. iv, p. 81. V.C.H. Essex, ix. 413. Cart. St. John of Jerusalem, p. 35. Pleas before King or his … PRN 2400. Colne Cart. 21; V.C.H. Essex, ii. 104. Cart. St. John of Jerusalem, p. 35. E.R.O., D/DBw Q1, rot. 7; ibid. …
A History of the County of Essex
… W. F. Tyler (1883-1927) a Band of Hope met, there were men's bible classes and prayer meetings, and the earlier … plan in 1837; there was preaching, apparently in a member's house, every Sunday afternoon and evening, and fort- … had started in 1848 at Wivenhoe Cross. 86 David George Goyder, minister of the Swedenborgian Society at …
A History of the County of Essex
… was celebrated in a former school in High Street. In 1967 St. Monica's Roman Catholic church was opened off De Vere Lane. In 1995 …