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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… death (as earl of Oxford) in 1400, Saxton descended with Castle Camps in the male line to Richard de Vere (d. 1417), …
The Environs of London
… Quantity of land. Soil. This place was so called from the ford in the wood, where Woodford-bridge now is. It lies in …
A History of the County of Essex
… Coming from Abridge, it crossed the Roding by a ford, from which the village derived its name, and continued … eventually veering south-west towards London. Around the ford, in the area now known as Woodford Bridge, a medieval … inns in Woodford in 1753: the George, White Hart, Ship and Castle, New Wells, and Old Wells. 49 The number licensed rose …
A History of the County of Essex
… bought the estate. 106 He sold it in 1864 to Henry Ford Barclay. 107 By that time the fields around the house …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Jones, from the drawing-room of which is a view of Windsor Castle, 36 miles distant. The living is a rectory, valued in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… with a low tower. Upon the river are the remains of a castle of quadrangular form, built by Guido de Brient, one …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… the E. end of the village the road crossed the river by a ford until 1735 when the Earl of Westmorland replaced it by a …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… and the latter is represented by the mediaeval Woodsford Castle and its associated deserted village remains. The castle is the principal monument. Ecclesiastical b(1) The … small enclosures' which lay'south of an old road to the ford' (Hutchins I, 453). Nine strip-like closes up to 500 ft. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… sqq., rents of 1 s. 10 d. and 1 s. 8 d. s.v. Curtis and Castle; P.R.O, HO 107/893. Boro. Mun. 53/½. e.g. ibid. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was recalled that the townsmen had received Henry VIII at Castle Hill, 31 apparently at the north end of Common Acre. … at the north end of Oxford Street extended eastwards to 'Castle Wall', 32 and a street, possibly the later Upper Brook … of Union Street in the 19th century. 34 The nature of the 'castle' is unknown: an adulterine castle said to have been …