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This volume is the first of two containing the history of all the places in Waltham hundred and some of those in Becontree hundred This region most of which is now in Greater London extends eastwards from the River Lea and northwards from the Thames Until the mid19th century it was rich farm land and was also fashionable with the gentry as a place of residence Its northern fringe is still rural but the remainder has since 1850 been the scene of a most remarkable example of sustained inflow and settlement of population This transformation starting in West Ham is described for the region as a whole in a special introductory article The parish histories include Barking and Dagenham which now contain the Becontree housing estate the residential suburbs of Chingford and Ilford and the market towns of Epping and Waltham Abbey
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This volume covers seven parishes and some sixteen ancient settlements on the eastern dipslope of the Yorkshire Wolds Its rich and varied past extends from the important Iron Age settlements with their wellknown chariot burials to the great estate at its high point one of the largest in England built up by the Sykes family in the 18th and 19th centuries and centred upon the village of Sledmere The volume includes a substantial introduction covering the history and archaeology of the area as a whole and analysing the impact of the Sledmere estate on local villages churches and farmsteads There are also detailed sections on the landscape and topography economic social and religious history of the parishes and their settlementsThe villages covered by the volume are Cowlam Duggleby Fimber Fridaythorpe Helperthorpe Kirby Grindalythe East and West Lutton Sledmere Weaverthorpe and Wetwang DAVID and SUSAN NEAVE are former staff of the University of Hull
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The volume contains histories of the eleven ancient parishes in Leyland hundred Leyland Penwortham Brindle Croston HeskethwithBecconsall Tarleton Rufford Chorley Hoole Eccleston Standish and of two of the five ancient parishes in Blackburn hundred Blackburn parish and Whalley Some very considerable places in the volume never achieved the status of ancient parish Darwen was part of Blackburn parish and Whalley included Accrington Burnley Clitheroe Colne and Nelson In the Middle Ages the area was relatively poor with extensive royal forests used for deer and later cattle and sheep farming From the late 18th century the woollen industry gave way to cotton spinning and weaving in hundreds of factories and the coalfield was exploited Despite the growth of industry the area retains much undeveloped countryside gentry houses in the lush pasture land of the Ribble Valley and many old farmhouses on the slopes of the Pennine moorlandsand Pendle Hill
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This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature
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This volume covers seven parishes and some sixteen ancient settlements on the eastern dipslope of the Yorkshire Wolds Its rich and varied past extends from the important Iron Age settlements with their wellknown chariot burials to the great estate at its high point one of the largest in England built up by the Sykes family in the 18th and 19th centuries and centred upon the village of Sledmere The volume includes a substantial introduction covering the history and archaeology of the area as a whole and analysing the impact of the Sledmere estate on local villages churches and farmsteads There are also detailed sections on the landscape and topography economic social and religious history of the parishes and their settlementsThe villages covered by the volume are Cowlam Duggleby Fimber Fridaythorpe Helperthorpe Kirby Grindalythe East and West Lutton Sledmere Weaverthorpe and Wetwang DAVID and SUSAN NEAVE are former staff of the University of Hull
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The volume contains histories of the eleven ancient parishes in Leyland hundred Leyland Penwortham Brindle Croston HeskethwithBecconsall Tarleton Rufford Chorley Hoole Eccleston Standish and of two of the five ancient parishes in Blackburn hundred Blackburn parish and Whalley Some very considerable places in the volume never achieved the status of ancient parish Darwen was part of Blackburn parish and Whalley included Accrington Burnley Clitheroe Colne and Nelson In the Middle Ages the area was relatively poor with extensive royal forests used for deer and later cattle and sheep farming From the late 18th century the woollen industry gave way to cotton spinning and weaving in hundreds of factories and the coalfield was exploited Despite the growth of industry the area retains much undeveloped countryside gentry houses in the lush pasture land of the Ribble Valley and many old farmhouses on the slopes of the Pennine moorlandsand Pendle Hill
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Sir Laurence Gommes original idea for a county history was realized by the publisher Herbert Arthur Doubleday who not only gained Queen Victorias consent that the History should bear her name but secured a special arrangement with the Public Record Office The first volume Hampshire I appeared in 1900 and new volumes continue to be published now much improved and updated but remaining comprehensive factual reliable and unbiased reference works based on original research Index to the Huntingdonshire volumes one two and three Offmint No jacket
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Volume XI relating to an area between the left bank of the Severn and the Weald Moors covers most of the east Shropshire coalfield Two parishes from the borough of Wenlock and eight from Bradford hundred contributed territory to Telford New Town and the volume opens with an account of the towns planning and growth since designation as Dawley in 1963 Prehistoric settlement centred on the Wrekin in the late Iron Age Uxacona stood on Watling Street which crosses the area PostRoman settlement was earliest north of Watling Street to the south settlements were smaller in woodland cleared at a later date Lilleshall abbey Wombridge priory and other monasteries nearby had large interests in the areas growth Wenlock priory established a market at Madeley in 1269 but Wellington proved a more successful town becoming one of Shropshires three largest in the 18th century The area cradled the industrial Revolution Seventeenthcentury coal and iron works grew rapidly after the 13thcentury innovations of the Darbys of Coalbrookdale and the Iron Bridge opened 1780 symbolizes the areas entrepreneurial talent From c1850 however and despite the growth of Oakengates the area declined it has been for Telford new town to reverse that decline In the north Telfords rural surroundings comprise land sloping down to the Weald Moors in the west the Wrekin dominates Aston Little Wenlock and other secluded villages To the south the scenery and historic remains of Coalbrookdale and the Severn Gorge are now sedulously conserved The volume includes an account of Bradford hundred
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This volume is the first of two containing the history of all the places in Waltham hundred and some of those in Becontree hundred This region most of which is now in Greater London extends eastwards from the River Lea and northwards from the Thames Until the mid19th century it was rich farm land and was also fashionable with the gentry as a place of residence Its northern fringe is still rural but the remainder has since 1850 been the scene of a most remarkable example of sustained inflow and settlement of population This transformation starting in West Ham is described for the region as a whole in a special introductory article The parish histories include Barking and Dagenham which now contain the Becontree housing estate the residential suburbs of Chingford and Ilford and the market towns of Epping and Waltham Abbey
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Ecclesiastical history the history of public schools and endowed grammar schools and sporting history provide the bulk of the content in Volume II The opening chapter deals not only with the territorial organization of the established church in Shropshire but also with the history of Roman catholic and protestant nonconformist organization There are separate articles on 40 religious houses including the abbeys of Buildwas Haughmond Lilleshall and Shrewsbury and the priory of Wenlock an account of the Ludlow Palmers Guild which maintained a college of chaplains in St Lawrences church is also included Among the 15 schools whose histories are treated are Ludlow Grammar School and Oswestry School whose origins lie in the Middle Ages and Shrewsbury School founded in 1552 to become one of the leading schools of Elizabethan England and restored to greatness in the early 19th century under the energetic rule of Samuel Butler The dozen articles on the sporting history of Shropshire besides illuminating the social basis of some sports revive the memory of such noteworthy sportsmen as John Mytton of Halston and John Purcell the sporting parson of Sidbury A table of population completes the volume based on the official censuses 18011961 the table gives statistics of each parish and for various other local government areas
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Bosbury is the second parish history to be produced by the Trust for the Victoria County History of Herefordshire following the history of Eastnor published in 2013nbsp Like Eastnor Bosbury is an agricultural parish near the market town of Ledbury It covers a relatively large area below the western slopes of the Malvern Hills In the Middle Ages Bosbury was the site of one of the favourite residences of the bishops of Hereford in the western part of the parish called Upleadon was an estate belonging first to the Knights Templar and then to the Hospitallers From the 16th century onwards both estates passed into the hands of tenants leaving the parish without a major resident landowner until John Stedman and Edward Higgins successively developed the Bosbury House estate in the late 18th and the 19th century Much of that estate was given after the First World War to create the Bosbury Farm Settlement for former soldiers The economy of the parish has always been agricultural mixed farming being practised Orchards have been important particularly on the higher ground in the northern part of the parish and hops have been grown since the 17th century By the late 19th century the lack of industry and indeed of any major roads made the parish appear an oasis of rural peace The many timberframed buildings particularly those along the village street and the parish church with its detached bell tower attracted visitors and some new residents but the parish avoided any largescale 20thcentury development nbsp
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This volume contains the histories of 24 parishes in southeast Cambridgeshire forming the hundreds of Chilford Radfield and Whittlesford Traversed and in part bounded by the Icknield Way and the ancient Wool Street they stretch from the neighbourhood of Cambridge to the Suffolk border In the valley of the Cam or Granta the arable was cultivated in open fields until the early rgthcentury inclosures On the southeastern upland the medieval clearance of ancient woodland in the heavy clays produced much early inclosure while the heathland lying along the Icknield Way encouraged sheepfarming and nearer Newmarket is used for studfarms Babraham was notable for 17thcentury irrigated meadows and as the home of the Victorian sheepbreeder Jones Webb The villages in the river valleys are mostly nucleated in the less populous eastern part settlement has been more scattered The former market town of Linton near the centre of the area had once two small religious houses and Castle Camps a motteandbailey castle held by the Veres Among later mansions the Tudor Babraham Hall and Horseheath Hall a grand classical house destroyed through its owners extravagance have gone Sawston Hall the seat of the Catholic Huddlestons during four centuries survives The village of Sawston and its neighbours have grown since the 19thcentury through the presence of such industries as tanning papermaking and the production of fertilizers and more recently of adhesives besides light engineering Further east the land is still devoted mainly to farming
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