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A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Protestant nonconformity Protestant Nonconformity The Presbyterian Thomas Whateley preached at Woodstock in the late 1660s, 55 and in 1672 Edward Miles … abolition of church rates in the 1860s. He and his son, John, pressed for reform of the old corporation, which …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… (C.a.). (O.S. 6 in. II S.E.). Woodstone is a parish on the S. side of the Nene. The northern part forms a suburb of … Monuments: In N. transepton E. wall, (1) to Vokes, son of John Walsham, 1714, marble tablet with fluted Ionic … (3). Cottage, two tenements, on E. side of the road at Water End, about 250 yards N. of the church, is of one …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wookey (St. Matthew) WOOKEY ( St. Matthew), a parish, in the union of Wells, hundred of Wells-Forum, E. division of … of the Subdean of Wells, valued in the king's books at 12. 15. 10.: the great tithes have been commuted for 212, … The present mansion in the park was built by the late John Sargent, Esq., the intimate friend of Hayley the poet, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… WOOL (8486) (O.S. 6 ins. aSY 88 NW, bSY 88 NE, SY 89 SW) The modern parish of Wool, 5 m. W. of Wareham, covers some … Abbey was transferred here in 1172 from its original site at Little Bindon in West Lulworth. The third settlement, … was added at the same time. Much rebuilding was done by John Hicks of Dorchester following a faculty of 1865: the …
A Dictionary of London
… Wool Quay - Wormwood Street Wool Quay At the south end of Water Lane, east of that lane (S. 44). Earliest …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woolaston Charities CHARITIES. A distribution to the poor of corn from Woolaston Grange was said to have been … of Tintern Abbey. 17 No dole was made after 1546 when John Conway, steward of Henry, Earl of Worcester, obtained a … gave the church house with a small piece of village green at the east end of the churchyard as an alms-house in 1501. …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woolaston Church CHURCH. The church of Woolaston was recorded in the foundation grant … failed to present. William held the rectory for life, but at the next vacancy a vicar was instituted; 95 two … had visited the church. 7 Richard de Swinfield in 1289 and John Trefnant in 1397, however, carried out episcopal …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… land in either Woolaston manor or Aluredston, though the king held two fisheries in demesne at Madgett. 6 By the late 13th century, shortly before the … by Richard Barrow (d. 1777), and by 1815 had passed to John Barrow. 91 In 1793 it was held by John Ward, who went …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… and Chepstow. Roughly rectangular in shape, it rises from the River Severn to the high ground of Tidenham Chase. The … Tintern Abbey. In 1882 the detached portion of the parish at Madgett, comprising 308 a., was transferred to Tidenham. 2 … features visible are a stone fireplace at the west end of the older range and a partly-blocked four-light window …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Manor and other estates MANOR AND OTHER ESTATES. Before the Conquest Brictric son of Algar held two hides in … enlarged to include most of the parish except property at Brookend, Netherend, and part of Woolaston Common, 23 and … on his bankruptcy. It had belonged in the 18th century to John Shere of Woolaston, son of Richard and Anne Shere and …