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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Woodditton's bounds were beaten along the frontages on the south side of Newmarket High Street. 10 Newmarket was … above 90 m. (295 ft.) rises gently to 120 m. (394 ft.) on the Cheveley and Stetchworth boundaries. Below 90 m. the … drops more steeply to 30 m. (98 ft.) in Newmarket. Springs on the plateau once fed streams draining north which are now …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… parish of Woodford lies between Salisbury and Amesbury, on the western side of the River Avon. The parish is bounded on the east by the winding course of the river and on the west by the old turnpike road from Salisbury to …
A History of the County of Essex
… for the usual petty offences, including encroachments on the waste, the unlicensed sale of ale, sheltering … ditches or repair roads. The court also regulated grazing on the common. As well as constables one or two bread- and … 4 d. an acre in 1647 but after 1659 rates were assessed on property values: 1 s. in the pound in 1707, rising in the …
A History of the County of Essex
… mead, 'the Parson's Grove', and another acre of wood on the north side of Jack of Lea's Grove. 20 In 1840 there … lights and surmounted by a fanlight. A Regency bow window on the south side formerly had a canopied balcony above it. A … 33 By the early 18th century two services were being held on Sundays, with communion celebrated monthly; by the 1760s …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Allen at about 140 ft. above O.D. the land rises gently, on Chalk, to a low N.-S. ridge capped by Reading Beds, about … of a Neolithic henge (20). Later settlement developed on the Reading Beds and London Clay. Woodlands village, first … but it appears to have been situated near Bagman's Copse, on the ridge between Woodlands and Knowlton, about a mile …
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. … The following account of sites of particular note is based on those sources. 1. Nos. 8-12 Oxford Street Bought in 1587 … transferred to the corporation in 1599 and usually granted on long leases to provide the bulk of the school's income. 53 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… elsewhere, early corporate life in the borough had centred on a religious guild, 45 and that the instruments of 1453 … The site, a house at the park gate with an attached close on the south, had been acquired by the corporation in the … that the corporation had met the cost in the past, 57 but on his death in 1837 his executors were obliged to pay …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the deliberate marking out of a site, probably confined on the north and east by the road, later Oxford Street, to … been laid out only when New Woodstock was planned, and on its south side is the church, where a 12th-century doorway … 40 a.; its 19th-century extent (61 ½ a.) included meadows on the north not granted to the borough until the 15th …
A History of the County of Oxford
… market town except Eynsham. 72 In 1327 Woodstock's assessment of c. 40 s. was paid by only 18 inhabitants, of … 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 … paid as much as 8 for his lands. 77 By 1581 the town's assessment and the distribution of its wealth was similar to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… College, Oxford, who transferred the loan from the college on the understanding that fellows would supply the mastership … library. 95 The earliest grammar school may have been on the site of no. 10 Oxford Street, where a former … then that the school was moved to a former chantry chapel on the north side of the church, where it remained until the …