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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… in the mid 18th century. At the E. end of the village the road crossed the river by a ford until 1735 when the Earl of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… and small enclosures' which lay'south of an old road to the ford' (Hutchins I, 453). Nine strip-like closes … scarp has traces of a ditch below it. The present road S.E. of the castle cuts these closes and narrow rig to … ditch running N.W.S.E. which may have been a sunken road. Immediately W. a block of broad rig runs up to a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… is unknown. The two-storeyed rear wing on Hensington Road is of c. 1720, and the cellar is lit by a 17th century … chimneypieces. The former malthouse range along Hensington road was converted into cottages after the Second World War. … turnpike trustees, who demolished both houses to widen the road. 46 14. The Queen's Own Between 1614 and 1616 Robert …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of a site, probably confined on the north and east by the road, later Oxford Street, to the Old Woodstock river … frontage, presumably dictated by the line of an existing road bending towards the river crossing. The straight … Street's east side, however, ignored the line of the road and so created a wide market area. The long regular …
A History of the County of Oxford
… there soon after the war. 69 Crutch's glove factory in New Road, Hensington, was opened c. 1924 and closed in the 1950s. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1940. In 1968 a Church primary school was built in Shipton Road, Hensington, but the old school remained in use until … to a newly built Church secondary school in Shipton Road; it acquired controlled status in 1951 and was renamed … was opened in 1934 next to St. Hugh's church in Hensington Road with 43 pupils; it was staffed from the convent of Notre …
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
… 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, …
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