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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… when 10,000 bricks were ordered for the purpose at 15 s. 8 d. a thousand. 13 The keeper's salary was fixed in 1624 at £13 6 s. 8 d. 14 In 1681 … jail was closed in 1846 and replaced by a building in Gaol Lane (now Victoria Road) designed by Basevi. This was a small …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… as a prominent centre of Nonconformity in Bishop Compton's 'census' of 1676, which enumerated only 12 Dissenters here … Nonconformist place of worship in the town-in Deadman's Lane (now Alexandra Road). 84 William Rix was appointed as …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Schools SCHOOLS A reference in the Archdeacon's Visitation Book of 1581-3 69 to a certain Mr. Belson of … in 1710, when a permanent school building with a master's house had been built and the girls' school started, there … rooms. Another charity school had been opened in Deadman's Lane in 1803. Its original promoter was James Hill the …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… A track in the south-west of the parish called Coal Pit Lane had become overgrown with trees by the early 20th … who held the lands that had once been Robert dispensator's. 28 The earliest reference to their tenure of Wistow seems … earls of Pembroke, who remained tenants of the family's Leicestershire estates, including Wistow, until the death …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… (G.b.) Witham. The Parish Church of St Nicholas. (O.S. 6 in. (a)xxxiv. S.E. (b)xxxv. S.W. (c)xliv. N.E. (d)xlv. N.W.) Witham is a … window with moulded mullions and now blocked. Mill Lane, E. side: d(36). Range of five tenements, 1,100 yards S. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and Nonconformist schools better suited to the town's needs. John Holloway's Bluecoat school at West End, endowed in 1724, catered … and again in 1993. 98 Tower Hill Primary school in Moor Lane, the open-plan Queen's Dyke County Primary School on the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and Curbridge were added in 1932, bringing the town's area to 1,306 a., and intakes from Curbridge (47 a.) and … the river and surrounded by low-lying alluvium. The river's surviving eastern branch formed the town's and parish's … the western boundary following roughly the lines of Puck Lane and of the lane called the Crofts across the narrow neck …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and the excavated remains of the bishop of Winchester's manor house show that there was high-quality stone building … been built parallel to the street. A house on High Street's east side, described in 1704, had a parlour, hall, entry, … dwellings mostly along Corn Street and Meeting House Lane, one of them (bought in 1764) divided into three …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and the right to deliver and return royal writs, the king's officers being forbidden entry into the bishop's manors except in connection with Crown pleas. 1 In 1284 the … and a new sewerage system, with a pumping station on Dark Lane, was finally opened in 1902, funded largely by loans …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Manor and Manor House ('Bishop's Palace') MANOR AND MANOR HOUSE ('BISHOP'S PALACE') Witney Manor In 969 King Eadgar gave the 30-hide … east of the main curia, bounded on the north by Farm Mill Lane, and on the east by the river Windrush; by the mid 13th …