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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… buildings on each side of the road at Druid's Lodge, in the extreme north-west of the parish. In 1951 the … chequerwork, and it retains stone mullioned windows and an enriched plaster centrepiece to one of the ground-floor … the Vicar of Wilsford and Woodford. See p. 215. W.R.O., Alehouse Reg. 18227; ibid. Wilts. Freehold Bk. 1821, and see …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Key to Buildings Section Scale 1:3,348 (approx. 19 in. to 1 mile). Quitrents imposed on the town's original … as the White Hart inn and a little adjoining house; an attached close on the east was in Hensington field and the … the site was the Globe, 15 and was probably the inn or alehouse occupied by Thomas Godfrey in the early 17th …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Economic history Economic history In the century after its foundation the town prospered, acquiring a fair in addition to its original market, 66 but it remained a … is not recorded, held estates in north Berkshire, was an official of Eynsham abbey, and may have been engaged in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Introduction Introduction In 1279 local jurors asserted that New Woodstock was founded … a market to the new residents. 5 The story is supported in part by other evidence, but Woodstock was one of Henry's … Roman coins were found near the church in 1755 and an urn near Oxford Street in 1810. 11 The underlying rock is …
A History of the County of Oxford
… BOROUGH TO 1886.When New Woodstock was incorporated in 1453 75 the borough and its customs were ancient. The … and bailiffs forfeited 5 of felons' goods for allowing an escape. 93 In Woodstock, as elsewhere, the ruling group … Kent. 6 In 1625 an alleged seditious speech in a Woodstock alehouse was referred to the Oxford sessions and brought to …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woolaston Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY: Agriculture. In 1086 there was no demesne land in either Woolaston manor … and in 1293 two casks and eight quarters of apples. 7 An orchard belonging to the vicarage was recorded in 1261. 8 … Woolaston Wood. 38 For a short time in 1660 the wood was committed to the care of the Commissioners of Dean Forest in …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… midway between Lydney and Chepstow. Roughly rectangular in shape, it rises from the River Severn to the high ground … the steep valley of the River Wye opposite Tintern Abbey. In 1882 the detached portion of the parish at Madgett, … Gloucester to Chepstow, but north of the road it takes an erratic course unrelated to topographical features. It is …
A History of the County of Somerset
… of Bridgwater. The ancient parish was almost rectangular in shape measuring 3 km. from north to south and 2.5 km. from … the village across field boundaries, seems to have been an addition to the ancient road pattern. 15 POPULATION The … 1595 William Edwards sold wine and beer, probably at the alehouse recorded in 1605. 17 A tippler and another …
The Environs of London
… Woolwich WOOLWICH. Name. THIS place in old charters is called Hulviz, Wolwiche, Wollewic, &c. I … Bowater Esq., the present proprietor. Manor of Jeffrys. An estate in this parish, called the Manor of Jeffrys, was, … an alms-house in Woolwich for five poor widows, and committed the care of it to the Goldsmiths' Company 48. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… exclusive jurisdiction, and the head of a union, locally in the county of Worcester, of which it is the capital, … is enumerated by Nennius under the name of Caer Guorangon in his catalogue of cities belonging to the Britons, by whom, … of Roman pottery-works have been met with; of all which, an interesting description is given by Mr. Jabez Allies in …