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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… November 12th. Wooburn House occupies the site of a noble palace that belonged to the bishops of Lincoln. The living is …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 69 The enrolment of 222 students at Oakengates Coffee Palace assembly rooms in 1892 was the beginning of continuous … in east Shropshire. In 1900 other rooms at the Coffee Palace were also rented, and by 1903 classes were being held … engineering, and commercial subjects. 71 When the Coffee Palace lease expired in 1915 72 senior classes were held at …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 25 The urban district council first met at the Coffee Palace but soon moved to rented offices in Market Street. Its …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… century. 83 A large temperance meeting place, the Coffee Palace, served Oakengates between c. 1895 and c. 1913. 84 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 3000 acres, the soil of which is a light loam. Here was a palace of the bishops of Salisbury, but no traces of it are …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… each a place of worship. In the parish was anciently a palace belonging to the bishops of Winchester. Woodhay, West …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… III. Henry VII. added considerably to the buildings of the palace, erecting the front and the principal gate-house. This … and Arms. During the civil war of the 17th century, the palace was besieged and much damaged, the furniture was sold, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Aug. 1678. Lond. Gaz. 6-9 June 1692; D. Green, Blenheim Palace, 253; Blenheim Mun., box 133, deed of 1718 giving …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to crenellate park wall: reproduced in D. Green, Blenheim Palace, pl. 91. Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. c 351, ff. 71-2. For the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… pre-dated the town: passage from the gate to the royal palace remained difficult, requiring long causeways. 92 Park … houses, was thought to be spoil from the demolished royal palace; some lintels, however, appear to be in situ, notably … Park Street, and no. 20 High Street, all built before the palace was slighted. Some 17th-century bay windows survive: …