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A History of the County of Sussex
… Dennett 62 (d. 1705), from whom it passed in the direct line to Thomas (d. 1723), John (d. 1761), Charles (d. 1774), …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… of the tower and its plinths. A thin arch was built in line with the E. walls of the transepts to carry the E. wall … wall was built on the N. of the nave, slightly inside the line of the former arcade and most of the tower was rebuilt; … is of the mid 13th century. The S. wall was rebuilt in line with the aisle wall in 1808. The parapets are plain, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… bowl with octagonal sinking, 14th-century reset. Secular Railway Gatekeeper's Cottage, see p. 416. b(2) Woodsford … sunken road another ditch or hollow-way ran S.W. on the line of the old stream and appears to have met the line of an 'old road, now disused', marked mile S. of the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in 1974 the property passed to West Oxfordshire district council. 44 In 1868 Samuel Lovegrove left c. £5 a … files; inf. from Blenheim Estate Office and West Oxon. district council; R. Mole, Cottage Improvement to Sheltered …
A History of the County of Oxford
… The town's curving west boundary perhaps represents the line of the 12th-century park wall but the straight south … nonconformist chapels, schools, a public station, and a railway station. The streets were repaved in the 1850s, and … 19th century, presumably because of the newly established railway link, the duke of Marlborough considered schemes for …
A History of the County of Oxford
… burned outside their houses. 45 Failure to establish a railway link until 1890 adversely affected the town's … in 1881 was employing 30 workers. 64 The opening of the railway in 1890 encouraged outside firms to invest in and … was broadly similar to that of 1830. The effect of the railway and later the motor car on the tourist trade was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… may once have followed the edge of the valley on the line of Upper Brook Hill and Harrison's Lane. The original … through Woodstock were carrying London travellers to the railway at Steventon (Berks.), and by 1852 coaches were … and Oxford with regular omnibus connexions to the railway at Kidlington. 55 Poorer communications forced a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… union as the rural sanitary authority and in Wootton district highway board were transferred to the new … in local services, and in 1889 approved the Woodstock Railway Co.'s plans for the station. 74 In the earlier 20th … retained its 18th-century plan of three square rooms in line on each of two floors, linked by corridors, with a …