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A History of the County of Oxford
… borough Introduction WITNEY BOROUGH Introduction The town of Witney, 1 by the river Windrush some 10 miles (16 km.) west of Oxford, originated as a planned medieval market town and … also passed through Witney every day, two in each direction, and by 1830 there were eight a day to London and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… town, 2 and the parish church and the excavated remains of the bishop of Winchester's manor house show that there was … Banks, Nancy, Nancy: the story of Ann Bolton (1984), 23; Letters of John Wesley, ed. J. Telford (1931), v. 126. Witney … Blenheim Mun., shelf C1, box of 18th and 19th-cent. pps., letters 15 Oct. and 14 Dec. 1849; CE Rec. Centre, file 20325, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Courts Borough Autonomy By the mid 13th century bishops of Winchester had secured wide-ranging liberties within their … 2 the same year, however, he received royal confirmations of Forest and other rights, and most franchises seem to have … through the courts baron and a twice-yearly tourn or view of frankpledge, which continued for the rural townships …
A History of the County of Oxford
… AND CHURCH LIFE Origins and Status Though the existence of a church within the 10th- and 11th-century estate seems … likely, the earliest unequivocal evidence is the survival of blocked, single-splayed windows of late 11th- or early 12th-century type high up in the nave …
A History of the County of Oxford
… nonconformity PROTESTANT NONCONFORMITY The strength of Protestant Dissent in Witney, a dominant feature of the … Secker's Corresp. 2501. Banks, Nancy, Nancy, 836; Letters of John Wesley, ed. J. Telford (1931), v. 126; viii, … refs. s.v. Witney, Bolton; above, intro. (eccl. bldgs). Letters of John Wesley, ed. Telford, vi. 97, 136, 297; vii. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… WITTENHAM, LITTLE ( St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Wallingford, hundred of Ock, county of Berks, 4 miles (N. W. by N.) from Wallingford; containing …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ( St. Andrew), a market-town and parish, in the union of Wellington, W. division of the hundred of Kingsbury, W. division of Somerset, 28 miles (W.) from …
A History of the County of Essex
… Wivenhoe Charities for the poor WIVENHOE THE ancient parish of Wivenhoe, c. 3 miles south-east of Colchester on the east bank of the river Colne where it … in 1863, run- ning six passenger trains daily in each direction. By 1867, despite disputes with the Wivenhoe and …
Survey of London
… DUKE'S ROAD (formerly Woburn Buildings) From the east side of Woburn Place, Thomas Cubitt erected a little street of shops which turned at right angles northwards to Euston Road, skirting the churchyard of New St. Pancras Church. Both sections of this street were …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Andrew) WOLLASTON ( St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Chepstow, hundred of Westbury, W. division of the county of Gloucester, 5 miles … Catholic children on an economical scale; it is under the direction of a president and vice-president, assisted by …