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A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Manor and Manor House ('Bishop's Palace') MANOR AND MANOR HOUSE ('BISHOP'S PALACE') Witney Manor In 969 King Eadgar gave the 30-hide … church, within an extensive curtilage which ran from the churchyard wall to the river Windrush, and which included the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… east, and almost certainly it long predated the borough's foundation. 1 The ecclesiastical parish, conterminous with … probably an error, arising possibly from the parish church's location just outside the borough boundary within Curbridge … rector and vicar were absent, the chancel ruinous, and the churchyard fouled, 61 though such neglect, typical of the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the growing centrality of Nonconformity to the town's social and civic as well as religious life (Figs. 546). An … Anglican churches together, overall attendance at the town's five Nonconformist meeting houses remained higher, … I/ii/119; for Quaker organization in Oxfordshire, E. D. Paul, 'Recs. of Banbury Monthly Meeting', Oxoniensia, 31 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a. 2 r. 19 p. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 17. 10.; net income, 400; patron, the Rev. F. J. … of Wallingford, hundred of Ock, county of Berks, 4 miles (S. W.) from Abingdon; containing 580 inhabitants. It is … III., and is dedicated to St. John the Evangelist. The old churchyard is still retained as a place of sepulture. About a …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… Wivenhoe 98. WIVENHOE. (D.d.) (O.S. 6 in. xxxvii. N.W.) Wivenhoe is a parish and small town on the left bank of the Colne, 3 m. S.E. of Colchester. The church, Wivenhoe Hall and the house … North and South Porches are modern. There was a N. but no S. chapel before the restoration. The Church, Plan …
A History of the County of Essex
… the west side of the Colne was transferred to St. Barnabas's, Old Heath. 5 The value of the rectory was estimated at 4 … a church shop was built on the street side of the churchyard, its profits and rent being used for the church. … Lewer and J. C. Wall, Ch. Chests Essex, 56-7, 228-9. W. N. Paul, Essex Fonts and Font Covers, 219; E.R.O., D/P 277/6/9. …
A History of the County of Essex
… third highest in Lexden hundred, 20 reflecting Wivenhoe's growth as a port whose develop- ment was linked with the … with most of the south of Wivenhoe being the lord's demesne except for a considerable amount of copyhold land … 277/11/1; ibid. D/DU 27; D/DEt M10, M13; tomb in Wivenhoe churchyard. Ipswich Jnl. 19 June, 10 Oct. 1784. V.C.H. Essex, …
A History of the County of Essex
… a post office by 1853, probably the one which was in Queen's Road in 1887, and a sub post office at Wivenhoe Cross by … settlement. 23 The place name, Wivenhoe, meaning Wifa's ridge or spur of land, 24 suggests early Anglo-Saxon … once a market-place) and most of the ground between the churchyard and the quay above high water. A narrow strip of …
Survey of London
… Woburn Walk and Duke's Road LXXIIIWOBURN WALK AND DUKE'S ROAD (formerly Woburn Buildings) From the east side of … at right angles northwards to Euston Road, skirting the churchyard of New St. Pancras Church. Both sections of this …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Alvington and Lancaut consolidated, valued in the king's books at 13. 11. 5., and in the gift of the Duke of … St. James', St. Matthew's, St. George's, St. John's, St. Paul's, and St. Mark's. It is the intention of the … and his wife, the former represented in armour. In the churchyard, which is inclosed with a handsome iron palisade, …