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A History of the County of Oxford
… by the 12th century. 54 It seems to have been the centre of the later Woodstock rural deanery until the mid 13th … probably much earlier, the parish included the township of Hensington and the borough of New Woodstock. 56 Despite attempts, notably in the 17th …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Peter Hopkins, by will proved in 1643, for the education of poor children, was presumably paid to the keepers of dame schools, like the schoolmistress who died in 1701. 48 … aided status, and it became a controlled Church of England school. 66 Attendance, which had risen to 66 in 1954, …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… (BLAEN-CARON), a hamlet, in the parish and union of Trgaron, upper division of the hundred of Penarth, county of Cardigan, South Wales, 4 miles (E. N. …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… 1220 4 plough-teams were recorded there. 8 In 1301 Ralph of Abenhall's moiety of the manor included a carucate (containing 60 a. of … in Blaisdon churchyard; cf. H. V. Taylor, The Plums of England (1949), 104-5. Cal. Inq. p.m. iv, p. 13; C.P. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… largest town described in this volume, stands in a curve of the R. Stour which bounds it to S. and W. The land varies … in altitude between 100 ft. and 200 ft. above O.D. and is of Valley Gravel and Chalk. Habitation probably originated in … of Ryves. Organ: (Plate 100) built in 1794 by England ( Salisbury Journal, Sept. I, 1794), moved in 1895 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… or Blackney ( St. Oswald), a parish, in the union of Sleaford, Second division of the wapentake of Langoe, parts of Kesteven, county of Lincoln, 10 miles …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… Blaston BLASTON Blaston lies eight miles north-east of Market Harborough and five miles south-west of Uppingham (Rut.) in the valley of a small stream which is a tributary of the brook flowing …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Blenheim Blenheim Palace Blenheim Palace In the winter of 1704-5 John Churchill, duke of Marlborough engaged Sir John Vanbrugh to build a house in … in 1719. After the duke's death in 1722 Sarah, duchess of Marlborough, completed the chief features of Vanbrugh's …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Blenheim Park from 1705 Park From 1705 The laying out of the gardens and park, begun in 1705 at the same time as the building of Blenheim Palace, was the work of Henry Wise, the royal … extraordinary and to exceed anything of that nature in England'. 61 Wise, who while laying out the gardens lived in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in the chase led to the establishment at Woodstock of a hunting lodge, presumably by the reign of Ethelred II (978-1016) when a witan was held 'at Woodstock … that such a rural pavilion as Everswell, unique in England, may have followed Sicilian examples known to the …