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A History of the County of Sussex
… Woodmancote WOODMANCOTE Woodmancote lies north of the South Downs and south-east of Henfield. 50 In 1881 it … 148. Budgen, Suss. Map (1724). 17 Geo. III, c. 91 (Priv. Act); 39 & 40 Vic. c. 39. 17 Geo. III, c. 74 (Priv. Act); 31 & 32 Vic. c. 99. Edwards, Brighton Rd. 82; Wiston …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… West Woodmancote WOODMANCOTE, a tything, in the parish of North Cerney, union of Winchcomb, hundred of Rapsgate, … district of Woodside was formed in August 1846, under the act 6th and 7th Victoria, cap. 37; and became a parish under … whilst translating Bothius: Ethelred held a council or parliament here, and made several of the statutes enumerated …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… 09 SW, c TL 09 NE, d TL 09 SE) The parish, once a chapelry of Nassington, covers some 420 hectares lying across Willow … Cultivation remains. The common fields were enclosed by Act of Parliament of 1777 (NRO, map of 1778). Nothing is known of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Church Church. The church, of which the south doorway is of the 12th century, was presumably established when the … marriage centre in the 18th century before the Hardwicke Act. 49 For the rectory and rectors, above, Bladon, Church. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… its original market, 66 but it remained a small community of tradesmen, craftsmen, and royal servants. Service in the … markets and fairs in that year was followed by an Act in 1576 making Woodstock a staple town. George Whitton, … was later acknowledged as a cattle fair. 20 Under the Act of 1751 the four authorized fairs were put back 11 days, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… dame schools; it was a popular place for boarding schools, of which some took day pupils. The rector, although a keen … and in 1831 that 'scarcely any residents lacked the means of education'. 85 Continued failure to respond to national … in educational provision for the poor. 86 The opening of an infants' school in 1840 and, belatedly, of a National …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was at Woodstock Park, which he visited regularly for love of Rosamund Clifford; he therefore provided land outside the … and greatly influenced the town's later history. 71 An Act of 1576 making Woodstock a staple town briefly stimulated … Ogilby, Britannia (1970 facs. edn.). 5 Geo. I, c. 1 (Priv. Act). For mins. of the Stokenchurch trustees, O.R.O., …
A History of the County of Oxford
… as a borough in the early 14th century. 78 The development of self-government was only gradual, for the vill was merely … corporation was exempted from sending representatives to parliament, a privilege willingly eschewed from the mid 16th … the town's decline to the cessation of royal patronage the Act allowed free trading in wool and yarn within the borough. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… representation Woodstock sent two representatives to parliament in 1302 and two others in 1305; 86 all seem to have been residents and two were members of the prominent Bennet family. 87 The borough charter of … was abolished under the Redistribution of Seats Act of 1885. For lists and biogs. of M.P.s see Williams, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… for threshing were provided by Tidenham tenants of the lordship of Striguil. The livestock usually consisted … for potato gardens were made under the Inclosure Act of 1810. 37 Common rights were enjoyed in Woolaston Wood … the late 17th and 18th centuries. 40 Under the Inclosure Act of 1810 encroachments made before 1789 for which no rents …