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A History of the County of Buckingham
… sold it to the Warden and scholars of Lincoln College, Oxford, for 1,000. 69 Lincoln College still presents. The …
A History of the County of Oxford
… subsoil of clay, gravel, and sand. 9 At one time the main Oxford to London road ran through the north of the parish, … and spiritual condition 'truly lamentable'. 32 In 1841 the Oxford and West Berkshire Congregational Association … was organized as an offshoot of George Street Church in Oxford. In 1884 the Congregationalists complained of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Culham CULHAM The parish lies some 7 miles south of Oxford in a bend of the River Thames, which forms its chief … during the Tudor period meant that the Thames between Oxford and Burcot was virtually innavigable by the end of the reign of Elizabeth I. Hence the establishment of the Oxford-Burcot Commission by Acts of 1605 and 1624 to improve …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… The village is just off the main road from Faringdon to Oxford, which runs from south-west to north-east through the parish. On its way from Cumnor to Oxford it passes through Chawley, where there are extensive … much water from the main stream that the king's mills at Oxford were seriously hampered. In the reign of William II …
Magna Britannia
… which Sir Thomas White, founder of St. John's College in Oxford, bequeathed the sum of 100l., to be lent from time to …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… is upper, middle and lower lias, inferior oolite and Oxford clay, the soil being very varied. 18 The quarry of …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… of his college, vulgarly called Cardinal college, in Oxford. But four years afterwards, when the cardinal was cast …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… of the Avon, crosses the southern part of the parish. Oxford Clay outcrops throughout the parish, including the … to his sister Maud and her husband John de Vere, earl of Oxford. 120 John (d. 1360) was succeeded by his son Thomas, earl of Oxford, 121 who was overlord of Smithcot at his death in …
Magna Britannia
… in 1701, to the Master and Fellows of Baliol College, in Oxford. The rectory, which is a sinecure with a stipend of …
A History of the County of Worcester
… Evenlode, which forms its south-western boundary. The Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton branch of the Great … money for the payment of 3,345 6 s. to the Misses Eaton of Oxford, 52 and subsequently to sell it to Jacob Knight, 53 …