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A History of the County of Oxford
… 1086 79 presumably comprised the north-east quarter of the parish and the heath adjoining Hanborough and Eynsham. … and 13 of between 1 s. and 2 s., indicating that the parish was still populated mainly by half-yardlanders and … later 16th century gentry families became resident in the parish, usually as lessees of demesne farms. The demesne 8 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… provided in 1827 the first purpose-built school in the parish and seems to have attracted children away from the … Instruction was according to the old plan, and the parish was said to be unable to afford purpose-built …
A History of the County of Oxford
… known chiefly for its Roman villa and for a remarkable parish church, lies c. 2 1/2 miles (4 km.) north-east of … just off the road from Witney to Woodstock. 98 The ancient parish was measured in 1876 at 2,423 a., 99 but the … north-west tip of Eynsham. 1 The boundary of the ancient parish was marked by natural features on the east, where it …
A History of the County of Oxford
… it met at the Mason Arms. 15 In the 1770s and 1780s the parish spent c. £130 a year on poor relief, but, as … Spending on settlement cases was consistently high. 19 A parish workhouse was from 1768 farmed to local men. In 1776 … take 35, 21 perhaps then almost all the paupers in the parish. In 1800, when there were 24 inmates including 3 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… In 1984 the Blenheim Estate retained only c. 250 a. in the parish. 44 The manor house stood west of the church. Traces … a tributary of the Evenlode in a valley ¾mile north of the parish church. The name Foly, occurring after flooding in … 77 Thorpe was still in possession in 1638 but had left the parish by 1642 when a 4 1/2-yardland estate was in the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… wife were in 1577 the only Roman Catholics recorded in the parish, 21 and there seem only to have been one or two … Leigh Methodists seem at that time to have attended the parish church in the mornings and the meeting house in the … Methodists were attending the chapel at New Yatt in Hailey parish. The success of Primitive Methodist revival meetings …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… 0 0 12 Cockermeat 1 0 0 13 Poovy Dole 1 1 0 14 Hablesthorp Dale 7 0 0 15 Bolingbroke Dale 7 0 0 16 Whitten 2 0 0 17 Waggon 3 0 0 18 Leverton Dale 7 0 0 19 Allison Tenman 2 0 0 20 Widow Dale 3 0 0 21 …
A History of the County of Sussex
… North Marden NORTH MARDEN North Marden is a very small parish on the Downs, to the north of, and higher than, East Marden parish. It contains 697 acres and measures about mile from … 350 ft. in the south to nearly 600 ft. in the north. The parish does not, however, stretch to the highest point of the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… MARSTON. (O.S. 6 in. xxiii. N.W.) Ecclesiastical (1). Parish Church of St. Mary, stands at the N.E. end of the … The famous Master John Schorne (d. 1314) was rector of the parish, and the church formerly contained his shrine. …
Old and New London
… early history of Marylebone, and of that portion of the parish lying on the south side of the Marylebone Road, we … there are only three houses dotted about near the then new parish church of Marylebone. Indeed, at the commencement of … and the new buildings in the north-west part of the parish increased with equal rapidity. The large estates at …