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A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Introduction Introduction In 1279 local jurors asserted that New Woodstock was founded by Henry II to provide lodgings for his … inhabitants. 37 Woodstock straddles the Oxford-Stratford road, which was probably an established route before the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Local government Local government BOROUGH TO 1886.When New Woodstock was incorporated in 1453 75 the borough and its … for parish roads, for cleaning main roads, and erecting road signs. 83 A lighting committee established in 1886 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Overview Overview WOODSTOCK lies 8 miles (12 km.) north-west of Oxford on the … Park. 1 The borough and market town, called formally New Woodstock until the 19th century, was founded in the 12th …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Parliamentary representation Parliamentary representation Woodstock sent two representatives to parliament in 1302 and … Bennet family. 87 The borough charter of 1453 freed Woodstock from the burden of representation 88 but in 1553 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Protestant nonconformity Protestant Nonconformity The Presbyterian Thomas Whateley preached at Woodstock in the late 1660s, 55 and in 1672 Edward Miles and … 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
… Woodstock Roman Catholicism Roman Catholicism. Woodstock presumably had a significant recusant community in … 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. …