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A History of the County of Oxford
… twice-yearly tourn or view of frankpledge, which continued for the rural townships following the borough's foundation. 4 … council: it commented on planning issues, and retained control of allotments, burial grounds, and some leisure … estates outside the town, despite the fact that most workers lived there and were assumed to enjoy its facilities. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to Aelfwine (d. 1047), bishop of Winchester, 2 and except for two brief periods during the 16th and 17th centuries the … temporalities in 1558. 6 Bishop Watson (d. 1584) leased it for 80 years from 1583 to the queen, who soon after seems to … ed. A. W. Goodman (1927), pp. 18990; below. For royal control during vacancies, Hyde, 'Winchester Manors', 47, 513. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… conterminous with the late Anglo-Saxon estate, was large for Oxfordshire, covering 7,182 a. and including, besides the … rector being supported by a team vicar with responsibility for Hailey and Woodgreen. In 1988 the latter was redesignated … Witney; reorganisation in 1993 combined responsibility for new housing estates in west Witney with that for Hailey …
A History of the County of Oxford
… adherents necessarily lived within the town or parish. For much of the 18th century Dissent, though strong, never … but Methodism remained a dominant force in the town for much of the 20th century. The 19th-century Methodist … keen interest in the conduct and moral wellbeing of their workers, and encouraged and rewarded teetotalism. 116 56. The …
A History of the County of Essex
… small and insignificant. In 1327 its assessment for subsidy was one of the lowest of the parishes in Lexden … 19 By 1524, however, the number of persons assessed for subsidy was the third highest in Lexden hundred, 20 … in 19201 and survived in 1970. Many of the shipyard workers came from outside the town, unlike the fishermen who …
A History of the County of Essex
… teacher was recorded. 94 A charity school, started in 1718 for 10 boys and 5 girls, still existed in 1724. 95 Two … were also recorded in 1844 and 1845. 98 Of two schools for young ladies recorded in 1866, one survived in 1922. 99 … 1888, because of lack of funds, it was transferred to the control of a school board. 5 The girls' and infants' …
A History of the County of Essex
… Wivenhoe Charities for the poor WIVENHOE THE ancient parish of Wivenhoe, c. 3 … Library facilities were provided consecutively by a Free Institute 1872-82, a Reading Club 1883-1914, and by the … of Charles G. Nottage 1852-94, yacht owner, the Nottage institute, including a library, was established in 1897 on …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… who, after a judicial combat at Salisbury, was executed for high treason, was lord of the principal part of this … of the Duke of Beaufort: the tithes have been commuted for 327. 12.; there is a parsonage-house, and the glebe … patron, the Rev. W. W. Dickens: the tithes were commuted for land and annual money payments in 1788. The church is a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… is described below. There is no early evidence for the open fields of Wolvercote, which seem to have been … in 1358 may have been part of the process: in return for land at Ailmerswell, Horestone, and Hawsland ditch in the … was still the largest employer; there were 62 agricultural workers compared with 46 people at the paper mill and 10 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… on the 'new' or National system, closed shortly afterwards for lack of financial support, and in 1815 the three day … by 101 children, and in 1823 the master was sent to London for training. 78 By 1825 numbers had risen to 120, each child … north side of Mill Street for evening classes for the mill workers. There is no further clear record of the school, …