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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the parish. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 13. 1. 10., and in the patronage of the Crown: the … Woodmancott WOODMANCOTT, a hamlet, in the parish of Bishop's-Cleeve, union of Winchcomb, hundred of Cleeve, Eastern … dug up within the limits of the borough; and the Akeman-street, an ancient Roman road, passes through the northern …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… on the N. side of Willow Brook and consists of a single street with a back lane on the N. Closes shown on the … XVI. 5). The sheltered position and fertile soil on the S. side of the street gave rise in the 19th century to a market gardening …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Woodsford 51 WOODSFORD (7690) (O.S. 6 ins. aSY 78 NE, bSY 79 SE) The roughly rectangular … of Woodsford, covering some 1,700 acres, lies on the S. side of the river Frome, 4 m. E. of Dorchester. It slopes … a hollow-way running N.E., perhaps the original village street, is about 3 ft. deep and 10 ft. to 12 ft. across. A …
A History of the County of Oxford
… (approx. 19 in. to 1 mile). Quitrents imposed on the town's original burgages survived until the 1930s. They were … note is based on those sources. 1. Nos. 8-12 Oxford Street Bought in 1587 with Richard Cornwell's bequest for the … the schoolhouse was', presumably the site of no. 10 Oxford Street. 61 Simon Jeames, schoolmaster, occupied no. 12 in the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… for the Poor Municipal Charities. The corporation's first almshouses were successors to those founded in the … house with a large close in Hollow Way (later Oxford Street), rebuilding it in 1612 and again in 1724. 79 In 1614 … of the poor. 85 The buildings survive as nos. 76-8 Oxford Street. 86 William Cornwell, alderman, by will proved 1552 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and burial ground were reconsecrated in 1336 the bishop's licence was granted not to the rector but to the vill. 36 … purposes. 36 He provided a church house (no. 11 Park Street), where there were clubs and a choir room, 37 and he … house may have stood east of a passage from Park Street to the north door of the church, and was perhaps the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… developed at a gate into the royal park. The town's curving west boundary perhaps represents the line of the … confined on the north and east by the road, later Oxford Street, to the Old Woodstock river crossing. 90 The south … remained difficult, requiring long causeways. 92 Park Street, running east from the park gate, may have been laid …
A History of the County of Oxford
… owed over a third of the total rental. 70 The hospital's estate had been granted in the mid 13th century by … of a Bicester charity. 4 A Northampton dyer owned a High Street shop in 1500, 5 and in 1499 William Harcourt of … Crossley, a Kidlington draper, bought a house in Market Street (later part of the Woodstock Arms) from an Oxford …
A History of the County of Oxford
… master, who was to be a good preacher. 88 In 1587 Cornwell's relict Mary Dolman gave money to trustees to buy property in Oxford Street (now nos. 8-12), 89 and the school probably opened … partly for the use of the school, 90 took over the Oxford Street houses and a rent charge of £8 a year from Childrey …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in part by other evidence, but Woodstock was one of Henry's principal residences before and after his association with … were found near the church in 1755 and an urn near Oxford Street in 1810. 11 The underlying rock is Oolitic limestone, … altered in the 13th century when the east side of Oxford Street was laid out. 18 In the 1580s there was a dispute over …