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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… by local carriers. By the 16th century there were mills at both E. and W. ends of the village, but the E. mill was demolished in the mid 18th century. At the E. end of the village the road crossed the river by a … with omega ornament and crosses with brackets between the arms, and scroll terminals; one lid is almost complete (Plate …
A History of the County of Oxford
… surgeon and mayor (d. 1864), who seems to have lived at no. 16. 85 No. 14 was a private school under the name of … the house was the Six Bells; 89 the Bennet family owned at until the later 18th century. 90 John. Wagstaff, publican … in the 1950s. 4. Nos. 26-34 Oxford Street (The Marlborough Arms hotel and houses on the north) 96 At its height as a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… endowed sermons; 'common dues' of 6 d. from each family at Easter yielded c. £5 in 1811, while additional voluntary … In 1686 Bishop Fell provided a rectory house in Woodstock at his own cost, making the corporation trustees of the … Woodstock Manor; Blenheim, Pk. to 1705. Thos. Croft's arms, listed in Corpus Vitrearum, G.B. i, 217, seem to have …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the town Development of the town New Woodstock developed at a gate into the royal park. The town's curving west … park, perhaps when the town was founded. 91 The park gate at New Woodstock may not have pre-dated the town: passage … of plots were close to that width, notably the Marlborough Arms (52 ft. in the 18th century) 16 and some of its …
A History of the County of Oxford
… later medieval inns, the George (later the Marlborough Arms), belonged in 1279 to one of the leading townsmen, Adam … 97 rent-payers, and Adam Bennet, Robert Marshall, John at Green, Richard Marden, and the hospital of St. John, … Caperuns, and Nortons. 71 In 1306, when taxed as demesne at a twentieth, c. 43 contributors paid a total of only c. 3 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Henry II to provide lodgings for his retinue when he was at Woodstock Park, which he visited regularly for love of … the park on the west and south was probably established at its foundation, 15 but it was extended on the north in … including the principal coaching inns, the Marlborough Arms and the Bear, and the town's waterworks which they …
A History of the County of Oxford
… borough and its customs were ancient. The plots laid out at the town's foundation were held by burgage tenure, 76 and … be arrested as a villein. They were to choose a mayor and sergeant-at-mace, and the corporation, under the title of the … corporation's house next to the town hall, the Woodstock Arms. 3 In the 1830s he received small fees, a wage of 1 10 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Nonconformity The Presbyterian Thomas Whateley preached at Woodstock in the late 1660s, 55 and in 1672 Edward Miles … people were said to be attending Anabaptist meetings at Combe. 57 In 1737 there was a registered meeting, probably … meeting in Thomas Boulton's house opposite the Marlborough Arms in Oxford Street, registered in that year; mobs, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… fluted Ionic pilasters, entablature, an urn, cartouche-of-arms on apron. In churchyardon E. wall of S. transept, (2) to … (3). Cottage, two tenements, on E. side of the road at Water End, about 250 yards N. of the church, is of one … date. The original block has both in front and at the back some original windows with moulded stone jambs, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Abbey was transferred here in 1172 from its original site at Little Bindon in West Lulworth. The third settlement, … a(1) The Parish Church of The Holy Rood stands at the S.E. end of the village. The walls are of rubble … a cup and cover-paten of 1571 and a paten of 1816. Royal Arms: In N. aisle, painted wooden panel, George III before …