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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is very pleasantly situated on an eminence, on the eastern bank of the Glyme, an expansion of which forms the lake in …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Remains, West Woodsford To the S.W. of the closes a bank about 30 ft. across stands up to 4 ft. high above a … 8 ft. wide. Whatever may be the date of this rig, the bank probably represents the boundary between the open fields …
A History of the County of Oxford
… so until acquired c. 1802 by Joseph Brooks, who opened a bank there in 1805. On his death in 1807 the lease was bought … house as a girls' boarding school and probably closed the bank in the early 1840s. 65 The house was the grammer school … principal meeting places. 61 19. No. 15 Market Street (Old Bank House) From the mid 18th century the house belonged to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to the withdrawal of charity funds from Woodstock Savings Bank and investment in consols, and at the same time the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Place, the Bull on the site of the National Westminster bank (no. 16) and probably several plots to the east, the … Three Cups, later no 18 Market Place. The later Barclay's Bank site was probably occupied by a 9-hearth house, and No. … Edward Ryves, town clerk, built the house later Barclay's Bank in the 1740s and Henry North, town clerk, the house …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a founding partner in 1790 of Oxford's University and City bank; in 1805 he opened a bank in Woodstock at no. 12 Oxford Street, combining with it … which included the Marlborough Arms, was sold. The bank was carried on by Cox & Morrell of Oxford until the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… or marsh called le Pool, comprising c. 17 a. on the south bank of the river Glyme; the fee farm rent of 2 13 s. 4 d. … Bradshawe's ford to drain water from his land on the north bank into the meadow drains; the lease of land for the meadow … his obligation under the first lease to maintain the river bank on the north side of the meadows and also the middle …
A History of the County of Oxford
… forest in the Anglo-Saxon period. The site, on the north bank of the Glyme opposite Blenheim Palace, was occupied … applied to a small hamlet outside the park on the north bank of the Glyme; the hamlet, later Old Woodstock, lay in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… goats were kept. Here is a branch of the North of England bank; a public subscription library is supported, and a … Tuesday in May a general fair takes place on Weetwood Bank, a mile and a half distant from the town. The powers of …