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A History of the County of Oxford
… New Woodstock was incorporated in 1453 75 the borough and its customs were ancient. The plots laid out at the … eastern boundary with Hensington manor, he instigated riots; when his party failed in the mayoral election of 1581 … in later sources, 29 has not been traced. Until the Civil War political pressure on the corporation was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock sent two representatives to parliament in 1302 and two others in 1305; 86 all seem to have been residents and two were members of the prominent Bennet family. 87 The … in 1622 and thereafter controlled the seat until the Civil War. William Lenthall, 6 who succeeded Whitelocke as …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… acres on both sides of the river Frome between 200 ft. and 50 ft. above O.D. The S. part slopes from Chalk in the S.W., through areas on Reading Beds and London Clay, well-wooded to the E. around Woodstreet, to … acquired by Humphrey Weld in 1641 and burnt down in the Civil War in c. 1644 (Hutchins I, 349). In 1785 the account …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woolaston Manor and other estates MANOR AND OTHER ESTATES. Before the Conquest Brictric son of Algar … Herbert, he was an active supporter of the king during the Civil War, and on the defeat of the royalist cause part of …
A History of the County of Somerset
… rectangular in shape measuring 3 km. from north to south and 2.5 km. from east to west. Its northern and eastern boundaries were marked by watercourses including … church. S.R.O., DD/BR/ely 1/6; D. Underdown, Som. in Civil War and Interregnum, 107, 134, 137, 206-7. D.N.B.; …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… covered by an area of Plateau Gravel. Woolland village and the former hamlet of Chitcombe are spring-line settlements at the junction of the Chalk and the Gault Clay. Woolland occurs in Domesday Book (Vol. I, … (Plate 40); above, figure of lady at prayer wearing ruff and farthingale; below, on inscription plate (20 ins. by 13 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… parish, 702 hectares in area, lies S. of Northampton and the R. Nene. It is separated from the river for most of … gain a narrow access to the Nene. Its boundary on the W. and S. sides is formed by the Wootton Brook while its … Archaeol 9 (1974), 111) are old quarry pits and modern disturbances to ridge-and-furrow. (10) Parish Church of St. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a city, a county of itself, having exclusive jurisdiction, and the head of a union, locally in the county of Worcester, of which it is the capital, Worcester and W. divisions of the county, 111 miles (N. W. by W.) from … Worcester: the number of parishes is 171. For purposes of civil government it is divided into the five hundreds of …