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A History of the County of Essex
… Woodford Local government LOCAL GOVERNMENT. During the Middle Ages the abbot of Waltham, as lord of the manor, … He claimed that, because of the annual payment of 4 s. to the exchequer, and references in the great roll of 1287 … as could not be dealt with at Woodford could be carried to Waltham gaol. 3 Court rolls exist for 12701, 1581, 1606, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Buildings Buildings Woodstock: Key to Buildings Section Scale 1:3,348 (approx. 19 in. to 1 mile). Quitrents imposed on the town's original burgages survived until the 1930s. They … Street. The site was altered c. 1780 when the turnpike commissioners levelled and widened Hollow Way. 45 In 1784-5 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Church Church. The church, of which the south doorway is of the 12th … reconsecrated in 1336 the bishop's licence was granted not to the rector but to the vill. 36 In 1445 the leading … was ignored when the house was conveyed to the Church Commissioners by the Official Trustees of Charitable Lands. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Development of the town Development of the town New Woodstock developed at a … on the north and east by the road, later Oxford Street, to the Old Woodstock river crossing. 90 The south boundary … c. 1780 when the road was levelled by the turnpike commissioners. 63 That section of Oxford Street was 'late a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… free grammar school, two small charity schools, and by the early 19th century several dame schools; it was a popular … lacked the means of education'. 85 Continued failure to respond to national reforms, however, provoked a comment … the school was probably closed by 1901 when the Charity Commissioners sanctioned Bell's retirement and ordered the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… jurors asserted that New Woodstock was founded by Henry II to provide lodgings for his retinue when he was at Woodstock … of Rosamund Clifford; he therefore provided land outside the park so that men might build hospitia, and he granted a market to the new residents. 5 The story is supported in part by …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Local government Local government BOROUGH TO 1886.When New Woodstock was incorporated in 1453 75 the borough and its customs were ancient. The plots laid out … Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act of 1878. 78 The borough surveyor acted as sanitary inspector, inspector of dairies …
A History of the County of Oxford
… representation Woodstock sent two representatives to parliament in 1302 and two others in 1305; 86 all seem to have been residents and two were members of the prominent Bennet family. 87 The borough charter of 1453 … life much was entrusted to agents, notably Samuel Travers, surveyor-general of Crown Lands, and William Diston, a …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… land in either Woolaston manor or Aluredston, though the king held two fisheries in demesne at Madgett. 6 By the … late 13th century, shortly before the manor was granted to Tintern Abbey, there was considerable demesne at … on the proximity of the parish to the mining areas, a surveyor recommended the building of six new cottages, which …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… courts were held for Aluredston with assize of ale in the late 13th century, and a hayward was elected. 66 After Tintern Abbey added Aluredston to its lordship of Woolaston in 1302 the courts were … and surveyors' accounts from 1848 to 1866. 81 There was a surveyor of the lower division of the parish in 1759, 82 and …