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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Church CHURCH. Woodditton parish church stands by the presumed site of Ditton Valence manor house, 11 whose … of the minor heir, 16 and the Crown in 1834 by lapse. 17 John Egerton, earl of Ellesmere, bought the patronage from … 23 The tithes alone were worth £80 a year in 1792. 24 At inclosure in 1815 the vicar was allotted c. 200 a. forming …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Until inclosure c. 1816 open-field arable occupied the centre of the parish, between heath in the north-west and … freehold and copyhold land, like the Pratt family, tenants at Camois Hall c. 1600, 21 and the Collins, lessees … flocks infringing the common were both large and numerous: John Langham had 40 sheep in 1405 and 200 in 1417, a tenant …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Manors and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. In the Middle Ages the manors in Woodditton were Ditton Camoys, … 66 Ralph's son Ralph (d. 1277) was succeeded by his son John, 67 who leased it to Edward I in 1281 and granted it … whom the manors were vested by an Act of 1730, 89 and who at once sold them to Charles Seymour, duke of Somerset, 90 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Woodditton Nonconformity NONCONFORMITY. The handful of individual dissenters known before the 19th … from 1829 and building a small flint and brick chapel at the north end of Saxon Street in 1835 71 as part of the Wickhambrook …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Woodend 68 WOODEND (OS 1:10000 a SP 64 NW, b SP 65 SW) The modern parish, formerly part of Blakesley, contains the … the N. and S. by E.-flowing tributaries of the R. Tove at about 115 m. above OD. From these valleys the land rises … the hillside and here it is 1 m.1.5 m. deep. At its N.E. end it divides. One branch continues N. towards the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… is a parish and suburb of London adjoining Walthamstow on the E. Ecclesiastical b(1). Parish Church of St. Mary has … kneeling figures of man and wife in civil costume at prayer-desk, entablature, obelisks, achievement and shield of arms. Floor-slabs: In N. aisle(1) to John Cowland, 1700; (2) to Sarah, wife of James Tutt, 1699, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Woodford 55 WOODFORD (OS 1:10000 a SP 97 NW, b SP 97 NE) The parish, covering 880 hectares, lies between the R. Nene … village, above the valley of Cranford Brook, on Cornbrash at 210 ft. above OD. Air photographs show, rather … site of a house and a garden, apparently built by the St. John family which bought the main manor in 1621 and owned it …
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 in the hundred of Becontree, at the distance of about seven miles and a half from … of religious houses 2, and, in 1546, was granted to John Lyon 3. The next year there was a grant of this manor to …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Woodford WOODFORD The ancient parish of Woodford lies between Salisbury and … 1 The parish includes buildings on each side of the road at Druid's Lodge, in the extreme north-west of the parish. In … Woodford, which was held by the bishop in 1214. 28 In 1279 John, son of Richard of Grimstead, quitclaimed to the bishop …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… 149 Woodford-Cum-Membris Medieval settlements and estates The parish covers about 1100 hectares and is bisected by the … Fig. 150 Woodford-Cum-Membris (2) Settlement remains at West Farndon Prehistoric and Roman Worked flints, … ridge-and-furrow is mainly arranged in interlocked and end-on rectangular furlongs except along the N.E. parish …