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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 … east of the main curia, bounded on the north by Farm Mill Lane, and on the east by the river Windrush; by the mid 13th …
A History of the County of Oxford
… east, and almost certainly it long predated the borough's foundation. 1 The ecclesiastical parish, conterminous with … probably an error, arising possibly from the parish church's location just outside the borough boundary within Curbridge … required expensive repairs, and a new house in Station Lane was acquired to serve as the rectory. The old house …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the growing centrality of Nonconformity to the town's social and civic as well as religious life (Figs. 546). An … Anglican churches together, overall attendance at the town's five Nonconformist meeting houses remained higher, … meeting house on Marlborough (formerly Meeting House) Lane was built about 1712 on Mather's initiative, reportedly …
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 … the head of a union, in the hundred of Manshead, county of Bedford, 15 miles (S. W. by S.) from Bedford, and 42 (N. W. by N.) from London; containing 1914 …
A History of the County of Essex
… link the main roads and the river. In 1734 they included a lane running west from The Entry to a crossing on the river … 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 …
A History of the County of Essex
… 12 to 16 jurors. Cases of animals trespassing on the lord's land, breach of the assize of ale, and of infringing the lord's rights of avesage, pannage, and larder were heard; … Essex, ix. 294. E.C.S. 20 Oct. 1989; inf. from Mrs. J. Bedford. E.R.O., D/P 277/8/1. Inf. from Estates Management …
A History of the County of Essex
… in a former school in High Street. In 1967 St. Monica's Roman Catholic church was opened off De Vere Lane. In 1995 it was served by a priest from Brightlingsea …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… Wix 99. WIX. (F.c.) (O.S. 6 in. (a)xxix. N.W. (b)xxix. N.E.) Wix is a parish 6 m. W.S.W. of Harwich. Wix Abbey is the principal monument. … at the N. and S. ends. a(5). Cottage, in Honeypot Lane, nearly 1 m. S.S.W. of (4). ConditionPoor. b(6). Bardox …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Alvington and Lancaut consolidated, valued in the king's books at 13. 11. 5., and in the gift of the Duke of … is bounded on the east by a portion of the county of Bedford, and intersected by the road from Bedford to … Armada; also a monument to the memory of Colonel John Lane, the protector of Charles II. after the battle of …
A Dictionary of London
… of All Hallows the Less, of later time called Wolfes Lane, but now out of use (S. 42). "Wolsieslane "lay between the tenement of Sir John de … part stopped up and built on by the Chamberlain of London (S. 42). First mention: "Wolsiesgate," 1300 (Lib. Horn. fol. …