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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Beds, about 250 ft. above O.D. Further E. the land falls and the Chalk is soon overlain by Reading Beds and London … the surrounding henge, is now in the guardianship of the Department of the Environment. The siting of the church, at … appears to have yielded four skeletons (G. A. Cooke, Topographical Description of Dorset ( c. 1818), 151). (29) …
A History of the County of Sussex
… WOODMANCOTE Woodmancote lies north of the South Downs and south-east of Henfield. 50 In 1881 it comprised 2,239 a. and in 1971 it had 905 ha. (2,236 a.). 51 In 1985 some land … 34 This article was written in 1984 and revised in 1986. Topographical details in introductory section based mainly on …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 13. 1. 10., and in the patronage of the Crown: the tithes have been commuted for 482, and the glebe comprises 18 acres. The church is principally … four paper-mills, and two corn-mills. The Leeds and Thirsk railway passes in the vicinity. The church is in the early …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Woodmancote Church CHURCH. There was a church in 1086, 77 and by the mid 1220s the benefice was a rectory. 78 From 1958 it was held in plurality with Albourne, 79 and in 1978 it became part of the united benefice of Henfield … in 1538 of poaching at Ewhurst park in Shermanbury. 6 Assistant curates were mentioned in 1530 7 and 1563. 8 Two …
A History of the County of Sussex
… demesne farm in 1086. 70 The farm had 114 a. in 1339 71 and 118 a. in 1434. 72 On the Morley manor demesne farm there … remained the largest farms in the parish between the 16th and 18th centuries. About 1639 Woodmancote Place farm had 149 a. and Morley manor farm 292 a.; 76 Morley Park farm had 166 a. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… ft. along the Frome. The S. half is all on Bagshot Beds and Plateau Gravel and is partly heathland while the N. is largely on a wide … bowl with octagonal sinking, 14th-century reset. Secular Railway Gatekeeper's Cottage, see p. 416. b(2) Woodsford …
A History of the County of Oxford
… until the 1930s. They were listed in a survey of 1279 and as 'the king's rents' in 1468-9. 48 Later the corporation acquired the quitrents 49 and listed them annually with its other rents. Rentals … from 1733. 50 Until 1764 their arrangement was partly topographical, as was that of the late 18th-century land tax …
A History of the County of Oxford
… marking out of a site, probably confined on the north and east by the road, later Oxford Street, to the Old … called Hensgrove, acquired by the king from the Templars and taken into the park, perhaps when the town was founded. … nonconformist chapels, schools, a public station, and a railway station. The streets were repaved in the 1850s, and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… but it remained a small community of tradesmen, craftsmen, and royal servants. Service in the park and household is denoted by 13th-century surnames 67 such as … burned outside their houses. 45 Failure to establish a railway link until 1890 adversely affected the town's …
A History of the County of Oxford
… land outside the park so that men might build hospitia, and he granted a market to the new residents. 5 The story is … Woodstock was one of Henry's principal residences before and after his association with Rosamund and indeed the town … through Woodstock were carrying London travellers to the railway at Steventon (Berks.), and by 1852 coaches were …