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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in the decorated English style. On Woodnesborough Hill is a lofty artificial mount, supposed by some to be …
A History of the County of Sussex
… commemorated by a line of table tombs which descends the hill north of the church. Two of the three bells are …
A History of the County of Sussex
… the junction of the road from Blackstone with the Crouch Hill to High Cross road c. 1840. 25 About 1840 the largest … Wick Fmho., and Mr. J. C. Allen, Managing Dir., Truslers Hill Fms. Ltd. P.R.O., MAF 68/433, 2371. W.S.R.O., SP 829. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… 1726 on the west side, with the initials EH for Edward Hill, occupier c. 1729, 94 may date some of the work. In 1729 … and earlier 18th centuries it belonged to members of the Hill or Hills family, including Edward (fl. 1626), John (d. … on the north side. It was perhaps the house at which Peter Hill was taxed on seven hearths in 1664. 59 In 1708 Thomas …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 6 s. 8 d. rent to the corporation for a garden on Market Hill in which, before 1601, he built a new house; his son … of Chaucer's House extended northwards to the foot of the hill near the causeway, where there was a 'handsome' entrance … Boro. Mun. 11/9. For early 19th-cent. plans of Hoggrove Hill area see ibid. 100, f. 24-5. C. Freeman, 'Mr. Harrison …
A History of the County of Oxford
… that the townsmen had received Henry VIII at Castle Hill, 31 apparently at the north end of Common Acre. In 1436 … Wall', 32 and a street, possibly the later Upper Brook Hill, leading to the same feature was mentioned c. 1461; 33 … Market or Cornmarket Street, sometimes called Cornmarket Hill in the 16th century, 38 was the later Market Place; the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… employer in 1851 with 43 men and 600 women, lived in Brook Hill on the later gas works site, but seems also to have … Street from the 1950s, moving to a new factory in Brook Hill c. 1972. 97 Hensington works, the former Pullman's glove … 35. Cf. P.R.O., HO 107/1730; Boro. Mun. 143, s.v. Brook Hill encroachments; below, Old Woodstock, Econ. Boro. Mun. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… late as 1750 a triangle of land at the junction of Brook Hill and Upper Brook Hill remained in Hensington, 17 suggesting that the borough … followed the edge of the valley on the line of Upper Brook Hill and Harrison's Lane. The original east boundary was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the shambles stalls and cottages in Common Acre and Brook Hill; by 1828 the traditional reserved rents were only 12 … were encroachments for gardens and cottages on Hoggrove Hill from the mid 17th century, 23 on the site of Glyme … 24 on the later Union Street from the 1760s, and at Brook Hill in the early 19th century. 25 The house later the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… form, with a large cairn on the summit; the sides of the hill are formed into terraces, about twenty feet broad, in …