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A History of the County of Oxford
… Wolvercote Economic history Economic history St. Frideswide's estate at Cutteslowe was administered independently of … much of its demesne land in Wolvercote and St. Giles's parish into a single block of land straddling the parish … additional to those belonging to the college's Wolvercote farm, and to have been leased for 60 years or more, 26 but …
A History of the County of Oxford
… extra-parochial areas of Godstow, Cutteslowe, King's Weir, and Pixey Mead were incorporated in the later 19th … and North Oxford. The extra-parochial areas of King's Weir (0.09 a.) and Pixey Mead (51 a.), which was then … gravel terrace, as is the 19th-century Pear Tree Farm in the north-east. 59 The land rises from 60 m. or lower …
A History of the County of Oxford
… is no further record of the under-tenancy, and d'Ivri's successors probably held in demesne. The manor descended with the rest of Roger d'Ivri's lands in the county and in the early 12th century was held … derived from land sold by the younger George Owen. A farm bought by John Bell in 1611 was acquired in 1636 by St. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… monuments in Buckinghamshire Wolverton 226. WOLVERTON. (O.S. 6 in. ix. S.E.) Ecclesiastical (1). Holy Trinity Church, Old Wolverton, … as the doorways. ConditionGood. (4). House, at Warren Farm, mile S.W. of Old Wolverton Church, is a small …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Churches CHURCHES. During the Middle Ages St. Leonard's priory presumably served the area that became Wombridge … to have been simply a donative and outside the bishop's ordinary jurisdiction. 50 It was evidently in the Crown's … and Shifnal. That part of Wombridge south of Priory Farm was put in the new parish, largely depriving Wombridge …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… there were said to be 38 a. of wood in Wombridge, worth 10 s. an acre. 8 Among the coppices in the later 17th and 18th … 11 Four or five ploughteams belonged to William Charlton's Wombridge tenants in the years 1693-8; most of the parish's … sunk around Priorslee village and near Lower Woodhouse Farm in the 19th century. 14 Considerable changes in land …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… OF SETTLEMENT. The original endowment of St. Leonard's priory seems to have consisted of the central part of what … on the east by a stream dividing Hadley wood from the king's wood (Wrockwardine wood), on the west by Springwell brook, … at Wombridge there was probably little more than Wombridge Farm, on the priory site. 2 In 1672 hearth tax was paid by …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… comprised Wrockwardine Wood C.P. (914 a.) and the new C.P.s of St. George's (129 a.) and Priorslee (584 a.). 56 In 1934 the U.D.'s … and Hollinswood, and to the north-east between Newfield Farm and Snedshill. The Greyhound and Lightmoor faults cross …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… and other estates MANOR AND OTHER ESTATES. St. Leonard's priory was dissolved in 1536 and its demesnes were leased … 1539 James Leveson bought the reversion and fee of Abbot's leasehold lands from the Crown. 89 Leveson bought more of … of the priory buildings remained incorporated in Wombridge Farm until its demolition in 1965-6. 97 In 1695 Sir John …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 32 It was sold in 1864 to the Oakengates and St. George's Gas and Water Co. Ltd., 33 which was in turn bought by the … abandonment of a major scheme of 1904. The Lilleshall Co.'s supply was transferred to the U.D.C. between 1901 and 1918; … the Oakengates main system. 40 The U.D.C. built the Trench Farm sewage works, Hortonwood, in 1904-5; 41 it was one of …