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A History of the County of Oxford
… WOOTTON HUNDRED Wootton hundred covered some 70,000 acres of central Oxfordshire, bounded on the east by the river … on the north by its tributary the Swere, and on much of the south by the rivers Thames and Windrush. Part of the … Probably then, as in the 14th century, the courts met at Old Woodstock, 19 presumably at a gate of the royal park. By …
A History of the County of Oxford
… part Wootton Hundred (Southern Part) THE SOUTHERN part of Wootton hundred 1 covered 35,473 a. (14,362 ha.) divided … towns. The area, lying partly on the limestone uplands of central Oxfordshire, partly on the flat river gravels of … 'demesne towns', of which Bladon, Combe, Hanborough, and Old Woodstock are treated in this volume. The manor and park …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… WOOTTON RIVERS Wootton Rivers village lies 6 km. south of Marlborough. 91 Besides the village, the parish contains East Wick Farm, which possibly stands on the site of what was a small village in the Middle Ages. 92 The suffix … of 1987, 271 in 1991. 3 The Roman road from Mildenhall to Old Salisbury, and in the Middle Ages a main …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… 6 in. XII, N.W.) North Wootton is a small parish 1 m. S.E. of Sherborne. Ecclesiastical (1) Parish Church Of St. Mary Magdalene stands 440 yards N.N.W. of the modern … 15th-century West Tower is the only surviving part of the old church; the nave and chancel were demolished about 1883 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Worcester - Wormsley Worcester WORCESTER, a city, a county of itself, having exclusive jurisdiction, and the head of a … 5. 5.; patrons, the Dean and Chapter; net income, 150. The old church, a small structure of stone, stood on the eastern … parish is situated on the navigable river Stour, from a ford across which, and from a former proprietor of the manor, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Oxford
… Ancient and historical monuments in the City of Oxford Worcester College Worcester College (26) Worcester College stands on the W. side of Stockwell Street. The walls are of local Oxfordshire stone … the W. end was built between 1753 and 1776. In 18245 the old buildings looking on the Pump Quadrangle were heightened …
Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300
… WORCESTER Bishops BISHOPS OF WORCESTER Wulfstan Prior of Worcester. Proposed c. 31 March 1062 (Will. Malmesbury, … III, Cal. Letters no. 472). Sampson Can. and treas. of Bayeux, and king's chapl. (Will. Malmesbury, G.P. p. 289; …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… in God the Lord Bushopp and others her majesties justices of the peace Your lordships humble peticioner Ellioner Reeve … her, was about a moneth sithence forceiblie turned out of an out howse of Thomas Sales in Odingley wherein she had … allso entreate you to be very mindeful for the good of old Pollar who [illegible] hath gotten letters for a pention, …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Worcestershire Quarter Sessions: 1613 The inhabitants of Bayton. Ref.110 BA1/1/20/58 (1613) To the right worshippfull the Kinges majesties justices of peace in the countye of Worcester. May yt please your … was admitted by the peticioner to dwell in some part of an old decayed howse of the peticioners where ever since shee …