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A History of the County of Oxford
… Windrush some 10 miles (16 km.) west of Oxford, originated as a planned medieval market town and borough, laid out by a … and blanket industry, and after 1945 it was developed as the chief commercial, industrial and residential centre of … in 1858, principally by leading landowners, professionals, bankers, and brewers; an Act of incorporation was obtained …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1 Building Materials In the 1640s Witney was described as a stone-built town, 2 and the parish church and the … the Butter Cross, both of which may have originated as substantial 16th-century houses. 12 The earliest roof … and, in the 19th century, families such as the Clinches, bankers and brewers. 289 Dissent seems to have had a major …
A History of the County of Oxford
… it during a long and confused dispute between the Knights Hospitallers and the bishop of Winchester. 13 Peter des … to the bishopric, presented by grant of the Crown, as presumably did the dean of Winchester in 15556. 17 The … by contrast, received only around 4 a year, and in 1254 as little as 5 marks (3 6 s. 8 d.). 22 Whether the vicarage …
A History of the County of Essex
… highest in Lexden hundred, 20 reflecting Wivenhoe's growth as a port whose develop- ment was linked with the expanding … Sheep were presumably kept originally for dairying as well as wool, as in other Essex marshland parishes where … employment. 32 There was a sub branch of Barclay & Co. bankers by 1902. 33 In 1891 there were 103 domestic servants, …
A History of the County of Essex
… less 15 a. held in 1066 by Alvric and in 1086 by Nigel as a tenant of Robert Gernon. 92 After Robert Gernon's fief … north-west of the church c. 1530, had a tower gateway used as a sea mark in the 16th century. The house was described as … of Oxford. 16 About 1180 Richard Battle gave the Knights Hospitallers land on Wivenhoe heath. 17 That was probably the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… the site and lands of the deserted village of Kirby (1) as well as the existing settlements of Woodend and Woodend … 332). This manor was granted in about 1194 to the Knights Hospitallers. The village is mentioned in the Nomina Villarum of 1316 and in 1361 the Hospitallers' manor was described as '1 messuage and 1 …
The Environs of London
… buried in the chancel, Nov. 8, 1644." Sir Thomas Rowe (or, as his name was frequently written, Roe) was born at Leyton, … Warner, Esq. a banker, who is mentioned in the Spectator, as having always worn black leathern garters buckled under … James Greenwood. Nicholas Lockyer, who succeeded Rous as Provost of Eaton, and was ejected after the Restoration …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… the boundaries of the civil parish were still the same as those of the ancient parish, extending a little over 3 … of the 19th century Upper Woodford was also known as Great Woodford; Lower Woodford and Middle Woodford together were known as Little Woodford or Nether Woodford. These three villages …
A History of the County of Sussex
… also being made. 95 It was described in the 1830s as large, convenient, and elegant, and as one of the most desirable glebe houses in the county. 96 … from sitting in it, and in 1678 he had it demolished; as a result he was arrested for trespass and indicted at the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… until the 1930s. They were listed in a survey of 1279 and as 'the king's rents' in 1468-9. 48 Later the corporation … 50 Until 1764 their arrangement was partly topographical, as was that of the late 18th-century land tax assessments and … 1805. On his death in 1807 the lease was bought by Oxford bankers Cox, Morrell, 8 Co., 64 who held it until c. 1850; …