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A History of the County of Sussex
… surface water from the streams. 37 Further north Worthing's rubbish tips formed a prominent flat-topped mound in 1977, … FOR THE POOR. 47 Dr. Chester's or the Poor's Ten Acres charity was founded by the rector, Grenado Chester, 48 who by … Ep. 1/25/3 (1616, 1635); MPL 21 (1); C.P. 43/911 rot. 36d. Smith's Surv. of Rds. from Lond. to Brighton (1800), 12-14, …
Broadwell Parish
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… the river Thames (Fig. 1). 1 As with Langford the parish's size, which is unusual for Oxfordshire, reflected its … in turn was carved from an even larger late Anglo-Saxon estate. 2 The villages were predominantly agricultural, and … vernacular Cotswold style at Filkins, the former by Morris's widow and daughter, and the latter by the Labour minister …
Broadwell Parish: Broadwell
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… and 7 miles (12 km) south-west of Witney. The parish's name implies that Broadwell was the primary focus of the … though the surnames Miller, Baker, Croc (or potter), Smith, and Chapman suggest that some tenants also practised … union, though the furze ground continued as a parish charity, 16 and owners of Bradwell Grove continued to display …
Broadwell Parish: Filkins
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… stone-built cottages and farmhouses, lies near the county's western edge around 3 miles (5 km) from the Gloucestershire … of Ardpatrick (Scotland). He leased the house to Charles Smith, an estate agent who was living there when it burnt … of six. 9 Charities and Poor Relief As in Broadwell, most charity in the 16th and 17th centuries came from donations to …
Broadwell Parish: Holwell
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… during the 19th and earlier 20th centuries it became an estate village for the neighbouring Bradwell Grove House. … the Black Death it was by far the smallest of Broadwell's four settlements, and in the later 20th century, as the … in 1623, when he received 10 s. a year from Cleevely's charity in addition to his wages. 5 Woodland Though extensive …
Broadwell Parish: Kelmscott
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… of the river Thames in what was, until 1974, the county's extreme south-west corner. The market town of Faringdon … In the early 11th century it belonged to a large comital estate which may have included not only Broadwell, Filkins, … c. 1914. Rural Trades and Crafts A villein surnamed 'smith' in 1279 may have been a blacksmith, 3 but from the …
Broadwell, Langford and Kelmscott: Cotswolds to Thames
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… William Morris (d. 1896). Ironically part of Morris's legacy was to deprive the hamlet of the rural seclusion and … Thames have not always been universally admired: Morris's friend, the painter and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti, … showing the probable extent of the 11th-century comital estate focused on Langford, and neighbouring parishes …
Survey of London
… a Some building took place here as early as the 1620's, but the development of the close was not completed until … of St. Antony in Threadneedle Street and Dean of the King's Chapel, and who may perhaps be identified with William Say, … With the erection of the new houses on the Burlington estate and in St. George's parish, Broad Street (like Golden …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… Brobury 11 BROBURY (B.e.) (O.S. 6 in. XXXII, N.W.) Brobury is a small parish on the left … light window of similar character to the E. window. In the S. wall are two windows of c. 1300, the eastern of two … In churchyard S. of chancel, (2) to Elizabeth Smith, 1711, headstone. Piscina: In sill of S.E. window, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Street which forms the whole of the W. boundary; the S. boundary is determined by the Whilton Brook. Another Roman … (NRO) but this only covers the area N.W. of the main N.S. road. It shows that the road did not make a marked bend at … least three former houses and gardens. Two other maps, an Estate Plan of 1821 and the Tithe Map of 1839 (both in NRO), …