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A History of the County of Oxford
… inhabitants. 37 Woodstock straddles the Oxford-Stratford road, which was probably an established route before the town's foundation: north of Woodstock the road formed part of the early boundary of Wychwood forest and … and the rest of the causeway in the 1840s. 42 An early road to Banbury ran north-east from the town on the line of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… for parish roads, for cleaning main roads, and erecting road signs. 83 A lighting committee established in 1886 … it owned the community centre, a former drill hall in New Road acquired in 1970. In 1985 Hensington Without parish (493 … and the corporation's records were moved across the road to Mrs. Brotherton's parlour (no. 6 Market Place), which …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 'any eminent commercial person', 93 and the Tory Sir John Gladstone, a Liverpool merchant, was returned unopposed with … find no politically congenial colleague. 94 Apparently Gladstone and Langston were approached to provide £2,500 each … to meet the duke's local debts; Langston may have paid but Gladstone denied any promise and handed over to his agent, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… that it could no longer afford one; then and later New Road chapel, Oxford, provided preachers. 65 There was a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the church of St. Hugh of Lincoln was built in Hensington Road. 53 A new parish, the Woodstock and Kidlington mission, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… Co.'s No. 4 Yard, W. of the Huntingdon to Peterborough road. ( See also under Fletton.) Ecclesiastical (2). Parish … Augustine of Canterbury stands on the S. side of Oundle road. The walls, where old, are of rubble and the dressings … Secular (3). Cottage, two tenements, on E. side of the road at Water End, about 250 yards N. of the church, is of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Newton-Abbott, 2609 inhabitants. The parish lies on the road from London to Plymouth, about half a mile south of the … from Barnsley; containing 418 inhabitants. It lies on the road from Wakefield to Barnsley, and comprises 2569 a. 14 p., … are arable, 836 meadow and pasture, 353 woodland, and 40 road and waste. Coal is obtainable, though not wrought; and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… form a single range. Wool a(9) House, No. 3 Station Road, has brick walls and is of the 18th century, enlarged in … on either side of a hollow-way running in from the W. This road was already blocked by a cottage in 1770. (Estate Map by … above a ditch on the W., runs N. and continues beyond the road from Wool; it then seems to have curved N.E. to join the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… been found. A near-by landmark on the Gloucester-Chepstow road is Peters Cross, first recorded in 1700 and known as St. …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… fields at Plusterwine lay almost entirely south of the road to Chepstow and east of Plusterwine Lane. The arable …