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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 island between streams of the Thames …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of the Carthew family, still retains the name of the Abbey. In 1666, upwards of 327 inhabitants died of the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… the house, is fragmentary. ConditionOf house, good. b(5). Abbey Farm, house 180 yards S.W. of (4), is of one storey …
Alumni Oxonienses
… St. Mary Hall, matric. 1 July, 1603, aged 15; of Boxley Abbey, student of Gray's Inn 1604 (as s. George, of Boxley, … 16; student of Gray's Inn 1618 (as s. George, of Boxley Abbey, Kent, esq.); brother of the next. See Foster's Gray's … Leoline Jenkins"; died 16 May, 1765, buried in Westminster abbey 23rd. See Foster's Judges and Barristers; Woolrych's …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 2777 inhabitants. This parish, so called from an ancient ford, where is now Woodford Bridge, is about three miles in …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… which was held in the manor court by Cirencester Abbey's bailiffs. 40 View of frankpledge was claimed by the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Revd. H. D. Clarke. 99 In 1873 Clarke sold it to William Ford who conveyed it in 1898 to the trustees of Sidney …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… in the early 11th century by King Cnut, who gave it to Ely abbey in 1022 in exchange for Cheveley. 58 Archbishop Stigand later held it as lessee or custodian of the abbey, and on his death in 1072 it was taken by William I. … Cal. Pat. 13916, 300. Feud. Aids, vi. 407; Westminster Abbey Mun. 13890; Cal. Close, 14059, 364. Cal. Pat. 14229, …
The Environs of London
… Quantity of land. Soil. This place was so called from the ford in the wood, where Woodford-bridge now is. It lies in … was another manor, or whether the Hickmans held under the Abbey of Waltham, I am not certain; but think the latter more … ago. It is thus described in the record of Doomsday: The Abbey of Waltham Holycross has, from time immemorial, held …
A History of the County of Essex
… Coming from Abridge, it crossed the Roding by a ford, from which the village derived its name, and continued … eventually veering south-west towards London. Around the ford, in the area now known as Woodford Bridge, a medieval … 73 Warner may have built the sham 'chapel' or 'abbey' ruin in the garden, a structure of flint and brick of …