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A History of the County of Oxford
… suggests that the parish was an independent agrarian unit, and the division of a small freeholding in the early 17th … 1 hide: the stock handed over each year included a plough, 6 oxen, and seed comprising 8 qr. of wheat, 16 qr. of … part, including much former meadowland, was put under the plough. 86 In 1914 a quarter of the parish's arable was given …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 49 It lies 4 miles (6.4 km.) south by east of Charlbury, and 5 miles (8 km.) north by east of Witney, for long its market and social centre. 50 Wilcote was from the Middle Ages and … even the heavy Oxford clay was at one time put under the plough. Almost a quarter of the parish remains woodland, most …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in the union of Tiverton, hundred of Halberton, Collumpton and N. divisions of Devon, 2 miles (N. N. E.) from … This parish, which is situated on the road between Exeter and Bristol, comprises 983 a. 2 r. 37 p. The soil is various; … part of Kensal-Green (the two latter on the Harrow-road), and a part of the large village of Kilburn. The …
The Environs of London
… Hendon, Hampstead, a detached part of Chelsea, Paddington, and Harrow. It is computed that it contains about 3400 acres of land; the quantity of arable and pasture is always varying, but the proportion of grass …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… gave a rent charge from which 12 d. a year was for bread and ale for the poor, and Thomas Paulet (fl. 1494) directed that bread and drink … by will in 1610 for the maintenance of the Edgware and Harrow roads, was in 1975 applied by statutory instrument to …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… of Willesden until 1867. The rectory belonged to the dean and chapter of St. Paul's, London. 43 A vicarage was first … mentioned in 1249-50 as having all the altar dues, a house and garden next the church, and some land. 44 The advowson of … church to Charles J. Vaughan (d. 1897), headmaster of Harrow and dean of Llandaff. Parish formed from St. Mary's, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… from south to north, as Kilburn High Road, Shoot-up Hill, and Cricklewood Broadway. In 1599 it was simply the London … of the road, being named in a grant of pavage in 1389 17 and making gifts and bequests in the 16th and 17th centuries. … 1872 they were replaced, under the Metropolis (Kilburn and Harrow) Roads Act by Edgware highway board and other local …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… at Willesden contained enough land for a total of 20½ plough teams, 15 at the principal manor, 4 at Harlesden, and 1½ at East Twyford. The largest manor, which had no … & Holland, makers of handmade guns, opened a factory on Harrow Road in 1880 and employed 48 men in 1919; although it …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… known until the Reformation for its cult of Our Lady, and more recently for the railway junction which in fact lies … along the west side of Edgware Road between the second and fifth milestones from London. It contained 4,383 a. in … brook. An ancient track, some of it forming part of Harrow Road and Kilburn Lane, marked most of the southern …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Local Government. Manorial Government. In 1294 the dean and chapter of St. Paul's established their title to view of frankpledge, the assize of bread and of ale, and other liberties in Willesden as in their … housing and education. 37 Willesden was a district in the Harrow parliamentary division of Middlesex 38 until 1918, …