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| Red Burn | See NB of Sheet 92/3 | |||||
| Ramshaw Burn | See NB of Sheet 92/3 | |||||
| Willimontswyke | Willimontswyke | List of County Voters | 65 Chains South east | A large farm house with outhouses | ||
| Willimontswyke | Willimontswyke | Mr Spraggon | by east of | gardens &c attached, the property of | ||
| (Remains of) | Willimontswyke | Mr Thompson Tow House | Smeath’s Haugh | Sir Edward Blackett Bart this has | ||
| Willimoteswick | Whites Directory | formerly been a place of importance and | ||||
| Williammountswick | Fryer & Son’s County Map | was the birthplace of Bishop Ridley | ||||
| the Martyr the remains now consist of | ||||||
| a square Castellated tower at the North | ||||||
| east end & two short walls at the | ||||||
| farm house, the remainder appears to | ||||||
| be modern, there are no signs of a | ||||||
| ditch, there are various modes of spelling | ||||||
| this name but the mode adopted appears | ||||||
| to be best, the meaning of the word |
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| probably is William’s Town on the | ||||||
| Mount or Hill as it is on a gentle | ||||||
| eminence overlooking the Stream. | ||||||
| "There are extensive ruins of the Castle which was | ||||||
| antiently the seat of the Ridley family; here was born the | ||||||
| Nicholas Ridley the celebrated prelate & martyr |
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| burnt at Oxford in 1555 being condemned for heresy by | ||||||
| the arbitrary Court of the bigotted and cruel Queen Mary" | ||||||
| Whites Histy of | ||||||
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