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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Pyder and of the county of Cornwall, 5 miles (W. by S.) from Bodmin; containing 468 inhabitants. The parish … of Withiel. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 10, and in the gift of Sir R. R. Vyvyan, Bart.: … 3150 are arable, 900 pasture, 1100 wood, and 1174 waste. A pleasure-fair is held on the 23rd of April. The living is a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… declined or remained low, suggesting that much of the town's trading took place outside the formal market structure. In … and livestock, often combined, from the 19th century, with pleasure- and hiring-fairs. The Middle Ages In 1202 the … was presumably planned to avoid competition from Witney's market. 6 A second annual fair, held for five days from the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and Curbridge were added in 1932, bringing the town's area to 1,306 a., and intakes from Curbridge (47 a.) and … the river and surrounded by low-lying alluvium. The river's surviving eastern branch formed the town's and parish's … of the site were used by civil aviation firms engaged in pleasure trips and commercial operations. In 1932 the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and the excavated remains of the bishop of Winchester's manor house show that there was high-quality stone building … been built parallel to the street. A house on High Street's east side, described in 1704, had a parlour, hall, entry, … the mill house at Bridge Street Mills possessed 'lawns, pleasure and kitchen gardens, with green house and summer …
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 … 94 Richard Duke (170811), poet and wit 'turned parson', was a pluralist on a more modest scale than his …
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 … by Canova; and the magnificent Lanti or Bedford Vase. The pleasure-grounds contain many objects of great attraction; …
A History of the County of Essex
… 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 … 41 and director of the East India Co. Apart from Martin's mansion and another, Wivenhoe Park, built in the north west …
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; … were elected; the court was usually held by the lord's steward, Charles Gray, or his deputy. By that period the …
A History of the County of Essex
… Nigel as a tenant of Robert Gernon. 92 After Robert Gernon's fief had escheated to the Crown, Henry I granted it to … it passed with Battleswick in Colchester to Richard Battle's daughter and coheir Margery wife of William Sutton. 98 The … it amounted to 2,381 a.: the mansion, deer park, and pleasure grounds comprised 124 a. in Wivenhoe and Greenstead. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… wapentake of Ryedale, N. riding of York, 4 miles (E. by S.) from Helmsley; containing 337 inhabitants. It comprises … WOMBOURN ( St. Benedict), a parish, in the union, and S. division of the hundred, of Seisdon, S. division of the … has fallen into disuse, and the latter dwindled to a small pleasure-fair held on the 11th of June. The manor-house of …