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A History of the County of Oxford
… £300 stock yielding £9 a year. It was distributed in coal to 80 poor families in that year, and continued usually as a coal charity, frequently augmented by the corporation from … c. £340 a year; pensions were no longer given, but coal and groceries were distributed. In 1977 a Scheme for …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the southern edge of the town in the 1950s and Barn Piece Farm estate in Old Woodstock in the 1960s. By 1967 there were …
A History of the County of Oxford
… his workshop and malt, grain, and cattle on his Hensington farm. 28 The later 17th-century mercers Thomas Sparrow and … by outsiders: in 1813 there was a London glover at Manor Farm, Old Woodstock, and after his bankruptcy another company … 3 wheelwrights, 3 saddlers, and a coachmaker; there were 3 coal merchants, 2 corn dealers, and a currier and cheese …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 50. 54 There was a succession of boarding schools at Manor Farm, Old Woodstock: a girls' school established there from …
A History of the County of Oxford
… John's reign the market and probably the rents were put to farm, yielding between 4 and 6 4 s. a year in the period … overseers. 73 The corporation continued to contribute to a coal fund, financed by subscription. In 1800 the council agreed to store coal in the town hall or shambles cellars before it was …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… meadow and pasture, 353 woodland, and 40 road and waste. Coal is obtainable, though not wrought; and there are …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… The third settlement, Woodstreet, is now represented by a farm of c. 1600; it is situated in a small valley on Reading … settlement on a river terrace of the Frome, now only a farm. The parish church, the ruins of Bindon Abbey and the … brick and tiled roof. a(27, 28) Cottages. b(29) Woodstreet Farm, house (856856), was built in the late 16th or early …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Rep. Com. Char. 114. Ex inf. Mrs. P. Guest, of Plusterwine Farm. …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… and Brockweir and the manor of Aluredston were all held at farm, Brockweir being leased to a number of tenants. … of Dean Forest in order to check the felling of timber, coal-mining, and iron-works, which had become more extensive … Madgett, Woolaston Woodside, and near Cone Mill. A former coal-pit a short distance south of Whitewalls farm was then …