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A History of the County of Oxford
… 150-7. L. & P. Hen. VIII, xv. p. 178. Below, Manors. Blenheim Mun., box 149; Oxf. Univ. Arch., SEP 31 2. Godstow … Hos., i (L.R.S. vii), 66-8; ii (L.R.S. xiv), 114. Blenheim Mun., box 150; Letter Bk. of Sir Sam. Luke (Beds. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… indications of its site are two fine sycamore-trees in Blenheim Park. The manor continued in the crown until the … Duke of Marlborough, for whom a splendid mansion called Blenheim ( which see) after the scene of one of his … bank of the Glyme, an expansion of which forms the lake in Blenheim Park, and which afterwards joins the Evenload in the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… (d. 1719), malster and mayor, was closely concerned in the Blenheim building works as receiver general of taxes in … completed in 1709, 82 was alleged to have been built with Blenheim Stone. 83 The house and malthouse remained in the … 1739) and his partner Bartholomew Peisley, the working at Blenheim, were trustees for his lease of the inn, 14 and may …
A History of the County of Oxford
… providing sheltered accommodation for the elderly; the Blenheim Estate trustees sold adjacent land for more houses … Boro. Mun. 90, p. 327; Char. Com. files, Scheme (1909). Blenheim Mun. S/S/32A. Boro. Mun. 89, p. 473; Char. Digest … above, Educ. Char. Com. files; O.R.C.C., Kimber files. Blenheim Mun., shelf G 1, estate pps. box 2. The building is …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Edward Strong, principal mason in the first stage of the Blenheim building works, was one of several places where Blenheim stone had been used illicitly. 64 Strong's occupancy … church was used by the inhabitants of Old Woodstock and Blenheim Park. 19 A Sunday school was established in 1787 and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to find in a borough town, joining to so great a palace as Blenheim'. 10 Political rather than aesthetic motives … were allegedly built with stone taken illicitly from the Blenheim building works. 22 Another building perhaps attributable to Blenheim craftsmen was the George (later the Marlborough …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 18th century when the town contained large numbers of Blenheim workmen. A bylaw of 1705 ordering distraint of … glovers supplied luxury goods to fashionable visitors to Blenheim and thus withstood competition from cheaper … of Prussia, and in 1768 the king of Denmark, on a visit to Blenheim, bought gloves and steel. 77 Because of elaborate …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Mun. 89, pp. 251, 272, 326; 12/7-13: rentals s.v. 'Globe'; Blenheim Mun., box 137; ibid. shelf B 2, Woodstock and … Academy was removed from map in W. F. Mavor, New Guide to Blenheim after 1803 edn. Above, Bldgs. no. 29. O.R.O., MS. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… parish. 24 The last was reduced in 1897 to c. 60 a. when Blenheim parish boundary near Old Woodstock mill was moved … 550 and 700. In the early 18th century the building of Blenheim Palace introduced a large labour force and the … the temporary residence of a large labour force restoring Blenheim Palace; by 1851 the population was 1,262 and by 1881 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the public weighbridge; it also negotiated with the Blenheim Estate to provide an adequate water supply, served … of the town's assistance during the great fire at Blenheim in 1861. 17 In the early 17th century the High Cross … there was plentiful employment in gloving and on the Blenheim estate. The poor benefited from the town's many …