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A History of the County of Gloucester
… times and 2 priests were recorded there in 1086. 85 One of the priests may have served a chapel of ease at one of the other settlements of the large manor of … one was recast and two more added by John Warner & Sons of London in 1864. 6 A new set of communion plate was acquired …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… were 10 servi and ancille and 4 ploughs on the demesne of the manor of Bisley. 18 In 1309 Tibbald de Verdun's … local committee was formed to distribute a grant from the London committee for the relief of manufacturing districts, … at Valley Corner where a small lane crosses the river by a bridge, 11 belonged to William Morton c. 1785, 12 and in 1820 …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Bisley Introduction BISLEY Bisley lies on the north side of the valley of the river Frome roughly equidistant from … took in a small detached piece of Stroud lying by the bridge at Steanbridge. 10 In 1894 the southern and most … Painswick and Cirencester. It entered from the west by the bridge at Steanbridge, ran by Catswood Lane to Bisley …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. In 1086 Hugh d'Avranches, earl of Chester, held the large manor of Bisley, extended at 8 … by Robert in the sale of the estate to Daniel Watkins of London (d. 1736). Daniel's estate later became the subject of … 120 a., was settled on Mary's marriage to Henry Peckitt, a London apothecary. 90 She died in 1793 and he in 1808, and …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… the most used colour, whether it was produced in the form of a DYESTUFF or as a PIGMENT. As a pigment, there were no … gave good results with minimal processing. In the form of BLACKING it was used, for example, to polish and to colour … as a dessert crop in Herefordshire, and were exported to London, packed in ice, carried by boat down the River Wye and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… four: Westbrook field, adjoining Alvescot west and south of Black Bourton village; East and West Upper or Down fields, north of the village on either side of the Burford road; and the smaller Whitworth field, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Black Bourton Introduction BLACK BOURTON The small village of Black Bourton lies 14 miles (22.5 km) west of Oxford and 5 … Berks.) crosses the Thames at Radcot, where there was a bridge by the 13th century. 26 The road's northern end, just … of Manor Farm. 67 24. High House or Fiveways (left) and Bridge House (right), south of Spout Green The 13th-century …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Black Bourton belonged presumably to the large royal manor of Bampton, though if so it was alienated piecemeal before … son Alexander sold the manor to Sir Michael Dormer, a London alderman, whose widow Katherine and son John sold it … son Alexander Seymour the younger. He sold it in 1551 to a London merchant, Simon Lowe, who in 1557 sold it to Sir …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 12th century, apparently jointly established by the lords of two Black Bourton manors. From the 13th century it was an … seem to have been conscientious, though there were periods of relative neglect particularly in the 16th and 18th … to form a vestry. 71 Stained glass by Clayton and Bell of London was fitted in the chancel and north aisle. 72 New …
A Dictionary of London
… 1799). Not named in the maps. Black Dog Alley East out of Seething Lane, between Green Arbour Court and Black Raven … Former name : "Black Boy Alley" (O. and M. 1677-Review of London, 1728). "Black Raven Court" (q.v.) seems to occupy … house and priory buildings, and extended from the Wall of London and Bridewell Ditch west to Puddle Dock east and from …