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A History of the County of Sussex
… history ECONOMIC HISTORY. There was one ploughteam on the Woodmancote manor demesne farm in 1086. 70 The farm had … the junction of the road from Blackstone with the Crouch Hill to High Cross road c. 1840. 25 About 1840 the largest …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Manors and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. The manor of WOODMANCOTE was held in 1066 by Countess Guda, … (fl. 1887). 63 The Dennetts seem always to have lived on the estate, 64 Thomas (d. 1723) and John (d. 1840) serving … 1726 on the west side, with the initials EH for Edward Hill, occupier c. 1729, 94 may date some of the work. In 1729 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1:3,348 (approx. 19 in. to 1 mile). Quitrents imposed on the town's original burgages survived until the 1930s. They … 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 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Development of the town Development of the town New Woodstock developed at a … the deliberate marking out of a site, probably confined on the north and east by the road, later Oxford Street, to … that the townsmen had received Henry VIII at Castle Hill, 31 apparently at the north end of Common Acre. In 1436 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Economic history Economic history In the century after its foundation the town prospered, … 7 paid more than 3 s. 73 In 1334 the town was assessed on total wealth of only c. 38. 74 Population seems to have … employer in 1851 with 43 men and 600 women, lived in Brook Hill on the later gas works site, but seems also to have …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of Rosamund Clifford; he therefore provided land outside the park so that men might build hospitia, and he granted a … 36 s. 10 The site of New Woodstock, a well drained plateau on the edge of the Glyme valley opposite the royal palace, … late as 1750 a triangle of land at the junction of Brook Hill and Upper Brook Hill remained in Hensington, 17 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… TO 1886.When New Woodstock was incorporated in 1453 75 the borough and its customs were ancient. The plots laid out … the profits were taken to include the quitrents set on burgages at the town's foundation and still listed in … the shambles stalls and cottages in Common Acre and Brook Hill; by 1828 the traditional reserved rents were only 12 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wookey (St. Matthew) WOOKEY ( St. Matthew), a parish, in the union of Wells, hundred of Wells-Forum, E. division of … encrusted with concretions of most fantastic form, while on the floor are other large petrifactions, formed by the … form, with a large cairn on the summit; the sides of the hill are formed into terraces, about twenty feet broad, in …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… WOOL (8486) (O.S. 6 ins. aSY 88 NW, bSY 88 NE, SY 89 SW) The modern parish of Wool, 5 m. W. of Wareham, covers some 3,000 acres on both sides of the river Frome between 200 ft. and 50 ft. … of squared and coursed local rubble with dressings of Ham Hill stone; the roof is slate-covered. The church is …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… land in either Woolaston manor or Aluredston, though the king held two fisheries in demesne at Madgett. 6 By the … estate, but the process was reversed by Cromwell, on whom the manor had been settled. 24 In 1771-2 in Woolaston … including the erection of cottages, were made at Park Hill, Woolaston Wood, and Brockweir in the late 17th and 18th …