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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… - Woodyates, West Woodmancote WOODMANCOTE, a tything, in the parish of North Cerney, union of Winchcomb, hundred of … both pierced with narrow apertures for arrows, or small arms. The offices on the basement are all vaulted with stone; … and the town was distinguished by her favours. Seal and Arms. During the civil war of the 17th century, the palace …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Village Map Woodnewton is a parish of 565 hectares in the Forest of Rockingham. The village lies on the N. side … and fertile soil on the S. side of the street gave rise in the 19th century to a market gardening business based on … 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
… Key to Buildings Section Scale 1:3,348 (approx. 19 in. to 1 mile). Quitrents imposed on the town's original … in the 1950s. 4. Nos. 26-34 Oxford Street (The Marlborough Arms hotel and houses on the north) 96 At its height as a coaching inn in the later 18th century the Marlborough Arms included the two houses on the north (Fox House and Fox …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 35 and when chapel and burial ground were reconsecrated in 1336 the bishop's licence was granted not to the rector but to the vill. 36 In 1445 the leading burgesses joined with the chapelwardens … 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
… doorway provides the earliest evidence of building in the town. The town in the later Middle Ages probably … of plots were close to that width, notably the Marlborough Arms (52 ft. in the 18th century) 16 and some of its … late 16thcentury wool barn behind the later Woodstock Arms, 90 Penniless Bench in Market Place, mentioned in the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Economic history Economic history In the century after its foundation the town prospered, … later medieval inns, the George (later the Marlborough Arms), belonged in 1279 to one of the leading townsmen, Adam … a house in Market Street (later part of the Woodstock Arms) from an Oxford draper, and soon afterwards moved to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Introduction Introduction In 1279 local jurors asserted that New Woodstock was founded … including the principal coaching inns, the Marlborough Arms and the Bear, and the town's waterworks which they … in 1820. 58 Assemblies were held at the Marlborough Arms in the early 19th century, presumably in the ballroom …
A History of the County of Oxford
… BOROUGH TO 1886.When New Woodstock was incorporated in 1453 75 the borough and its customs were ancient. 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 … even small undertakings such as rebuilding the Woodstock Arms in 1700 required a loan of 40. 89 The corporation also …
A History of the County of Oxford
… The Presbyterian Thomas Whateley preached at Woodstock in the late 1660s, 55 and in 1672 Edward Miles and William Metcalfe applied for … 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
… Woodstone 97. WOODSTONE (C.a.). (O.S. 6 in. II S.E.). Woodstone is a parish on the S. side of the … fluted Ionic pilasters, entablature, an urn, cartouche-of-arms on apron. In churchyardon E. wall of S. transept, (2) to … coped and with flat cartouche; (7) slab with lozenge-of-arms, probably late 17th-century, defaced; (8) to Frances, …