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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… a SP 75 NW, b SP 75 NE) Wootton parish, 702 hectares in area, lies S. of Northampton and the R. Nene. It is … the parish is varied, running from Great Oolite Limestone in the N. down through the limestones, clay and silts of the … The common fields of Wootton were enclosed by an Act of Parliament of 1778. Three open fields, Preston Hedge, Long …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the flat meadows and oolitic gravels of the Upper Thames in the south to the rich 'red land' of the ironstone uplands around Deddington in the north; between them is the undulating stonebrash of … 34 parishes; they covered 69,215 a. (28,011 ha.). 1 The borough of Woodstock (62 a.) and the extra parochial district …
A History of the County of Oxford
… were affected by intercommoning and other forest customs. In the Anglo-Saxon period Eynsham was an important centre, … in the successful establishment of New Woodstock and of borough extensions, both called Newland, at Eynsham and … was at its height in the 19th century, when their pocket borough of Woodstock was extended to include much of the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… possibly stands on the site of what was a small village in the Middle Ages. 92 The suffix in the parish's name is the surname of lords of the principal … College in 1728. 38 From 1991 the colleges have been members of the board of patronage for Pewsey benefice. 39 In …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… exclusive jurisdiction, and the head of a union, locally in the county of Worcester, of which it is the capital, … defraying which H. Crabb Boulton and John Walsh, Esqrs., members for the city, contributed 3000. Of the several … under the act 5th and 6th of William IV., cap. 76; the borough is divided into five wards; a sheriff is appointed by …
Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541-1857
… Jan. 1542, after the dissolution of its monastic body. As in each of the other cathedrals in this volume, the former head of the monastic establishment … Shropshire were transferred to Worcestershire by acts of parliament of 1832 and 1844. 7 Thus the diocese was to …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… good meanes and [illegible] [...nt?] remedye may be taken. In tender consyderacion whereof, and [illegible] sayde … [illegible] [illegible] by her heighnes laste acte of parliament that noe person or persons [sh...?] [illegible] … of the truthe and by [illegible] [illegible] tratours and in due execution of justice and [on?] her majesties …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… of Phillippe Wilkes Shewinge, that he beinge borne in Ombersley and beinge maryed unto one Christian [Maneley?] … to be shrowded therein, who ar now constrained to lodge in the highe wayes and fieldes for wante of order to be taken … and not on the waste or comon contrary to the actes of Parliament 43o Elizabeth chapter 2 and 31o Elizabeth chapter …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… parishe hath heare lived with us many yeares hee liveth in the roade way from Worcester to Droyt Wich and other … pray may be presented to the by your worshipps to the members of Parliament in this present Parliament assembled and serveinge …