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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Rapsgate, Eastern division of the county of Gloucester, 5 miles (N. by W.) from Cirencester; containing 256 … of Tipnoak, rape of Bramber, W. division of Sussex, 6 miles (N. E. by E.) from Steyning; containing 378 … of Cleeve, Eastern division of the county of Gloucester, 3 miles (W. by S.) from Winchcomb; containing 372 inhabitants. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… paying 4½ d. and 1½ d. 79 In the later 17th century Miles Parker was paying 4½ d. for the site of no. 14 Oxford … For much of the 18th century the property was held by the Miles family, collarmakers, and had probably ceased to be an …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in the town: the Hatleys, hatters and maltsters, and Miles Parker (d. 1719), a maltster also concerned in the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… relatively unimportant, the London-Worcester road passed 2 miles to the north, and the Ox-ford-Coventry road 2 miles to the east. 47 After Blenheim Palace was built, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Overview Overview WOODSTOCK lies 8 miles (12 km.) north-west of Oxford on the river Glyme close …
A History of the County of Oxford
… In 1628 Sir Gerard was replaced by his nephew Sir Miles Fleetwood (d. 1641) and for the Short Parliament of 1640 the M.P.s were Sir Miles's son Sir William Fleetwood, by then ranger of the … members, Fleetwood's protg, Jerome Sankey, and his nephew Miles Fleetwood (d. 1688). 13 For the Convention Parliament …
A History of the County of Oxford
… at Woodstock in the late 1660s, 55 and in 1672 Edward Miles and William Metcalfe applied for meeting-house …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Purbeck, liberty of Bindon, Wareham division of Dorset, 6 miles (W. by S.) from Wareham; containing 505 inhabitants. It … Bridgwater, hundred of Whitley, W. division of Somerset, 4 miles (N. E.) from Bridgwater; containing 448 inhabitants, … of Haytor, Teignbridge and S. divisions of Devon, 5 miles (W. S. W.) from Teignmouth; containing, with the town …