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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Mary) WOOTTON ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Woodstock, hundred of Wootton, county of Oxford, 2 miles (N. by W.) from Woodstock; containing 1129 inhabitants. The parish lies on … land, with a small portion of meadow and pasture. At Old Woodstock, and in other parts of the parish, glovemaking is …
A History of the County of Oxford
… communities, looking to small markets at Deddington or Woodstock. Weaving and malting at Deddington were on a small … scale, and slate mining at Stonesfield and gloving near Woodstock were developments of the 17th century and later. … they covered 69,215 a. (28,011 ha.). 1 The borough of Woodstock (62 a.) and the extra parochial district of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… parishes and several extraparochial places, notably Woodstock, later Blenheim, Park. Eynsham and Woodstock were boroughs and market towns. The area, lying … not a distinct region; some villages looked to markets at Woodstock and Eynsham, others to those at Witney and Oxford. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… WORTON, a hamlet, in the parish of Cassington, union of Woodstock, hundred of Wootton, county of Oxford; containing … WORTON, NETHER ( St. James), a parish, in the union of Woodstock, hundred of Wootton, county of Oxford, 3 miles (W. … WORTON, OVER ( Holy Trinity), a parish, in the union of Woodstock, hundred of Wootton, county of Oxford, 4 miles (S. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Yarington YARNTON, or Yarington, a parish, in the union of Woodstock, hundred of Wootton, county of Oxford, 4 miles (N. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… living had risen to c. £9. 59 It was poorer than most in Woodstock rural deanery, worth in 1707 only £36 a year, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… (d. 1690), also held property at Charltonon-Otmoor and Woodstock, and was presumably raising stock on a large scale. … were temporarily resident. Glovemaking, presumably for Woodstock masters, provided work for a few women, and in 1851 … i (O.H.S. xv), 53. Hearne's Colln. vi (O.H.S. xliii), 187. Woodstock Boro. Mun. 35/4. O.R.O., MSS. Wills Oxon. 299/4/39; …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a.), lay north-east of the junction of Sandy Lane with the Woodstock road. The boundaries with Begbroke and its detached … and furrow in the area known as the Marshes east of the Woodstock road, and around Stonehouse Farm, 54 indicate that … by changes at the locks and at the mill. The main Oxford-Woodstock road, passing ½ mile east of the village, attracted …
A History of the County of Oxford
… among the highest. 27 Yarnton's proximity to Oxford on the Woodstock road presumably accounts for the very large numbers … on the local bench. 41 In 1834 Yarnton became part of Woodstock poor law union. In 1932 it was transferred to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… south-east of the parish, immediately west of the Oxford-Woodstock road, was, like Paternoster farm, part of the …