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A History of the County of Oxford
… ordered the payment of the contribution to the repairs, and awarded costs of 42 gold florins against Wolvercote. 7 … were made regularly until 1869, were revived in 1923 and continued until the closure of St. Peter's in 1965. 8 … money to St. Peter-in-the-East as the 'mother church', and as late as 1636 a woman left 2 d. to the parish church of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… abbey consolidated much of its demesne land in Wolvercote and St. Giles's parish into a single block of land straddling … the process: in return for land at Ailmerswell, Horestone, and Hawsland ditch in the north end of St. Giles's, Godstow … a large block of land extending from the Cherwell to Port Meadow. 90 Most of the land between the Woodstock road and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… an ancient parish lying on the north-west of the city and liberty of Oxford, c. 2 ½ miles north of the city centre, contained two settlements, Upper and Lower Wolvercote; the adjoining extra-parochial areas of … area of Cutteslowe (281 a.). 32 To the south is Port Meadow, the common pasture of the Oxford freemen, where …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Wolvercote Manors and other estates Manors and other estates Roger d'Ivri held WOLVERCOTE in 1086, and … citizens of Oxford added other land on the edge of Port Meadow. 69 At the Dissolution the estate was bought by George …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Wolvercote Site and remains of Godstow abbey Site and remains of Godstow abbey Godstow abbey was built on an … ruins were used as a pound at the annual drives of Port Meadow, and the precinct wall was probably partially rebuilt; …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… WOMBOURN ( St. Benedict), a parish, in the union, and S. division of the hundred, of Seisdon, S. division of … Wolverhampton; containing, with the liberties of Orton and Swindon, 1808 inhabitants, of whom 1220 are in the … and comprises 4388 acres, of which 2495 are arable, 585 meadow, 507 wood, and the rest common. The surface is hilly …
Alumni Oxonienses
… graduate), said to be S.T.D.; a minister in Salisbury, and at Newbury, Berks, ejected 1662 for nonconformity, … May, 1678, aged 17; his father governor of Windsor Castle, and knighted 20 May, 1660; brother of Edward. Woodcock, … B.Can.L. supd. 16 April, 1532; rector of Patching 1545, and vicar of West Deane, (both) Sussex, 1544. See Foster's …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the antiquities that have been found are, foundations and ruins of buildings, fragments of statues, stags' horns, … of the Lower Empire, a coin of Adrian, one of Lucilla, and a noble tessellated pavement, of which an engraving was … r. 11 p., of which 1571 acres are arable, 658 pasture and meadow, and 12 woodland. The Hall, now a respectable …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Brictric's estate at that time. 8 In 1297 50 a. of arable and small acreages of pasture and meadow were recorded on the manorial demesne, 9 which was …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the centre of the parish, between heath in the north-west and closes and woods in the south-east. The three principal manors had … conformed to the East Anglian pattern of inconstant names and irregular and perhaps variable sizes. 97 Among the more …