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A History of the County of Oxford
… 95 There was extensive meadow along the streams of the Thames in the south and west. In 1086 there were 120 a. of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… boundary changes in 1857 and 1868) followed streams of the Thames on the west, the Banbury road on part of the east, … was divided into four separate parts, three along the Thames in the west, and the fourth and largest (221 a.) … manor. 36 The site of the abbey, between streams of the Thames, was thus presumably part of Wolvercote, although, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… abbey was built on an island between streams of the Thames given to the foundress c. 1133 by John of St. John. … different alignment, and fragments of masonry found in the Thames suggest that work continued throughout the 13th … extended, on the south at least, from one stream of the Thames to another; the closure of a back gate c. 1535 caused …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Primitive Methodists have each a place of worship. Wood-Ditton, county of Cambridge.See Ditton, Wood. WOOD-DITTON, county of Cambridge.See Ditton, Wood. And other …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… taken as the boundary of the two parishes would cut Wood Ditton into a thousand shreds and patches'. 14 In 1815 the … long as it is broad, it included two ancient land units, Ditton and Saxton, the former being divided in two before 1066. 22 The three early manors, Ditton Camoys, Ditton Valence, and Saxton, each formed a …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Woodditton parish church stands by the presumed site of Ditton Valence manor house, 11 whose lords probably founded … 1535. 21 The impropriators kept half the small tithes of Ditton Camoys, and tithes on cattle, sheep, and the mill were … clergy until it closed c. 1986. 52 About 1284 the lord of Ditton Camoys gave away land belonging to a chapel, so that …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… principal manors had separate field systems. 96 That of Ditton Valence was apparently cultivated in three shifts in … stable field names were Ditch, Church, and Down fields in Ditton Camoys, 98 and Kirtling, Wrongs, Cawdle, and Mill … fields in Saxton. 99 Each manor had a home farm in 1086. 1 Ditton Camoys's had only two ploughteams but expanded by the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… school built on the road between Saxon Street and Little Ditton (thenceforth School Road). 79 The building was … school for 30 children was opened at Valence House in Ditton Green in 1987 and served an area much wider than …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… was seen alternatively as forming a single township with Ditton Camoys or Ditton Valence. 95 By the early 16th century the parish was … 98 The only medieval court rolls to survive are those of Ditton Valence, covering 1327-76, 1389, 1400-20, 1453-4, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… ESTATES. In the Middle Ages the manors in Woodditton were Ditton Camoys, Ditton Valence, Saxton, the rectory, and Ditton Priory. The … of the tithes of Ditton Camoys from Bermondsey priory (Surr.). 54 The name Monkwick is first recorded in 1269, 55 …