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A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Manor and Manor House ('Bishop's Palace') MANOR AND MANOR HOUSE ('BISHOP'S PALACE') Witney Manor In 969 King Eadgar gave the 30-hide … curtilage which ran from the churchyard wall to the river Windrush, and which included the site and grounds of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… east, and almost certainly it long predated the borough's foundation. 1 The ecclesiastical parish, conterminous with … late Anglo-Saxon parochiae, with territories north of the river Windrush dependent on a probable minster at Minster … probably an error, arising possibly from the parish church's location just outside the borough boundary within Curbridge …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a. 2 r. 19 p. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 17. 10.; net income, 400; patron, the Rev. F. J. … of Wallingford, hundred of Ock, county of Berks, 4 miles (S. W.) from Abingdon; containing 580 inhabitants. It is … The living is annexed to the rectory of Houghton. The river Ouse passes through the parish. Witton WITTON, a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Somerset, 28 miles (W.) from Somerton, and 155 (W. by S.) from London; containing 2984 inhabitants. This place is … Wiveliscombe in the Cathedral of Wells, valued in the king's books at 27. 0. 10.; net income, 300. The church is a very … 1599 inhabitants. The village is situated on the Colne river, and much shipping belongs to the port: it has a …
A History of the County of Essex
… third highest in Lexden hundred, 20 reflecting Wivenhoe's growth as a port whose develop- ment was linked with the … of the parish on the Elmstead border mile from the river. That mill was apparently replaced by a windmill by … 98 Robert Page built the Nonsuch in 1650 which sailed to Hudson's Bay (Canada) in 16689, a voyage which led to the …
A History of the County of Essex
… 3 miles south-east of Colchester on the east bank of the river Colne where it widens to form an estuary, covered 1,549 … a post office by 1853, probably the one which was in Queen's Road in 1887, and a sub post office at Wivenhoe Cross by … settlement. 23 The place name, Wivenhoe, meaning Wifa's ridge or spur of land, 24 suggests early Anglo-Saxon …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… SP 96 SW) The parish, covering around 1145 hectares, lies S. of Wellingborough between the R. Nene which forms its N.W. … OD, partly floored by clay but with extensive areas of river gravel and alluvium near the Nene. The parish is … of the internal walls still visible. Immediately to the S.E. a series of circular structures is also visible, while …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… with several granges stretching across the parish from the river Wye to the Severn. Towards the Wye the parish is … of Alvington and Lancaut consolidated, valued in the king's books at 13. 11. 5., and in the gift of the Duke of … N. division of the county of Northampton, 3 miles (S. S. E.) from Wellingborough; containing 1120 inhabitants. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Wolvercote Economic history Economic history St. Frideswide's estate at Cutteslowe was administered independently of … much of its demesne land in Wolvercote and St. Giles's parish into a single block of land straddling the parish … in the parish had orchards. Some of the land near the river was planted with osiers and other bushes, and there may …
A History of the County of Oxford
… extra-parochial areas of Godstow, Cutteslowe, King's Weir, and Pixey Mead were incorporated in the later 19th … and North Oxford. The extra-parochial areas of King's Weir (0.09 a.) and Pixey Mead (51 a.), which was then … twice, whereas the more easterly route avoided any major river crossing. 69 The road from Wolvercote to Wytham crossed …