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A History of the County of Oxford
… and Curbridge were added in 1932, bringing the town's area to 1,306 a., and intakes from Curbridge (47 a.) and … the river and surrounded by low-lying alluvium. The river's surviving eastern branch formed the town's and parish's … 1112; 4 (July 1978), 22; inf. from S. C. Jenkins, Witney Museum. Archaeol. Notes, Oxoniensia, 24 (1959), 102; Rodwell, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and the excavated remains of the bishop of Winchester's manor house show that there was high-quality stone building … been built parallel to the street. A house on High Street's east side, described in 1704, had a parlour, hall, entry, … 35 ft., a reading room 21 ft. by 15 ft., and a lecture and museum room 39 ft. by 21 ft., together with two smaller …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and the right to deliver and return royal writs, the king's officers being forbidden entry into the bishop's manors except in connection with Crown pleas. 1 In 1284 the … the later Middle Ages. 3 Within Witney manor the bishop's liberties and manorial rights were exercised by his bailiff …
A History of the County of Essex
… a post office by 1853, probably the one which was in Queen's Road in 1887, and a sub post office at Wivenhoe Cross by … settlement. 23 The place name, Wivenhoe, meaning Wifa's ridge or spur of land, 24 suggests early Anglo-Saxon … social centre for seamen. In 1947 it moved, with its museum, to premises on The Quay. The classes in the later …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… miles W. of Cirencester) A silver spoon in the Ashmolean Museum was recovered from West Park (SO 8101) in 1850. 1 A … with the supposed kiln at Little Britain, noted on p. 81, S.V. Minchinhampton. (1) Roman Villa (SO 83970311), under and adjacent to a former church, now in ruins (map, p. 81, s.v. Minchinhampton), was excavated by Samuel Lysons in 17936 …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… No teams were employed on the demesne of Brictric's estate at that time. 8 In 1297 50 a. of arable and small … during the 16th century. 10 The tenants on Brictric's estate in 1086 included 16 villani and 12 bordars working … R.O., D 340A/E 17. Ex inf. Mr. L. F. J. Walrond, of Stroud Museum. Of the other mills on the stream adjoining …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… by the Inferior Oolite, with small deposits of fuller's earth and the Great Oolite on Bown hill. 4 The main route … converted to make cottages, one of which included a potter's workshop. South of Frogmarsh, on the lane called Convent … solid, sheet 35 (1866 edn.). H. Housman, The Story of Our Museum (1881), 21-2. Tiltups Inn to Dudbridge Roads Act, 20 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 18 The vicar received £1 a year in 1254, 19 £6 13 s. 4 d. in 1291, 20 and £12 16 s. 4½ d. in 1535. 21 The impropriators kept half the small … former churchwarden in the 17th century and survives in a museum there. 62 By the 18th century the centre of the church …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… on a high N.-facing spur, and Hinton stands immediately S.W. of it on the opposite side of the river on lower ground. Further S.W., also W. of the Cherwell, is West Farndon (2). Although … the W. of the parish (SP 531528; OS Record Cards; Warwick Museum). a(2) Settlement remains (SP 530513; Figs. 149 and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… (approx. 19 in. to 1 mile). Quitrents imposed on the town's original burgages survived 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 … Fire Brigade headquarters; in 1965 it became the County Museum. 41 The remains of the new house of c. 1614 occupy the …