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A History of the County of Oxford
… Anson, 'South-West Oxon.' (TS 1965), p. 57: copy in COS, Cross colln. DC 1; Witney Gaz. 6 Mar. 1980, p. 6; ORO, Witney … 1978), 201; Anson, 'South-West Oxon.' p. 57; D. A. E. Cross, 'Witney's Famous Fires', Witney Gaz. 11 Dec. 1964; C. … since 1945). Anson, 'South-West Oxon.' p. 55; D. A. E. Cross, 'Ind. of Witney', Jnl. Industrial Archaeol. i (1964), …
A History of the County of Oxford
… presumably along the line of Corn Street and Crown Lane to cross the river at an early ford. 54 Westwards it connected, … the 13th and 14th centuries and presumably later. A stone cross where Corn Street intersects the market place, superseded in 1606 by the Butter Cross, existed probably by the later Middle Ages. 172 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of the demolished Crown Hotel opposite the Butter Cross, both of which may have originated as substantial … range parallel to the street, with gabled and jettied cross wings and a large carriage entry on the south; a … glass and which may also have had a timberframed hall and cross wing; 23 the inn was rebuilt in the late 18th or early …
A History of the County of Oxford
… together with responsibility for the town hall and Butter Cross and continuing involvement in town charities, though … and some of its muniments, the town hall and Butter Cross (held as a charitable trust), and Langdale Hall. 130 … writs themselves. 139 The names Galloway field and Gib's cross (in Curbridge) may preserve memory of a gibbet, though …
A History of the County of Oxford
… bishop of Winchester, granted it to the hospital of St Cross in Winchester. 11 St Cross's ownership was confirmed in 1189, but by 1211 it … of Gayhurst, chancellor of the diocese of Salisbury, 12 St Cross having perhaps lost it during a long and confused …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… bridge of stone was erected in 1837. Upon the village cross is the date 1698, which is most probably the time when …
A History of the County of Essex
… Westeley, Elizabeth's chaplain (d. 1535). 65 A granite cross in the churchyard commemorates the dead of the two …
A History of the County of Essex
… for a considerable amount of copyhold land near Wivenhoe Cross and some on the east side of High Street just south of … indicate that hops were formerly grown east of Wivenhoe Cross. 33 The parish contained woodland for 100 swine in … September. The fair was moved from High Street to Wivenhoe Cross in 1906 and survived until 1931. 69 Field names suggest …
A History of the County of Essex
… 1566, from the Colchester road just south of Wivenhoe Cross to their manor house c. ½ mile further south, providing … Street known as Love Lane. 94 Horsedrawn traffic could cross the river Colne at low tide between The Quay and … in Queen's Road in 1887, and a sub post office at Wivenhoe Cross by 1906. In 1871 telegraph wires connected the railway …
A History of the County of Essex
… poor a cottage lying between Wivenhoe heath and Wivenhoe Cross, which was con- verted to a parish workhouse. 55 In … one built on the west side of Colchester Road at Wivenhoe Cross. 82 From 1847 or earlier a policeman appointed by the … borehole to a water tower in Tower Road west of Wivenhoe Cross. 88 The council sold the waterworks in 1961 to Tendring …