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A History of the County of Oxford
… Brize Norton Introduction BRIZE NORTON The large, mainly rural parish of Brize Norton lies on the northern edge of the Thames valley, about …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Brize Norton Local government LOCAL GOVERNMENT Manor Courts Before … of Cornwall, as overlord, 1 transferred the suit of Brize Norton and Astrop from Bampton hundred court to his court of … suit every three weeks, while free tenants on both Brize Norton manors were required to attend view of frankpledge …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Brize Norton Manors and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES In the late Anglo-Saxon period Brize Norton almost certainly belonged to the large royal estate of … but by 1086 it contained two discrete manors, Brize Norton and Astrop, which were held by the same Norman tenant …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Brize Norton Religious history RELIGIOUS HISTORY In the Anglo-Saxon period Brize Norton presumably fell within the jurisdiction of Bampton's … in the 1760s there was a small Catholic community in Brize Norton. Quakers and several other Dissenters were briefly …
Broadwell Parish: Filkins
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… innkeepers. 4 As at Broadwell, Holwell, Burford, and Brize Norton there were significant amounts of malting: maltsters … beds. 1 Many other inhabitants worked at nearby RAF Brize Norton, or in the towns of Carterton and Swindon; even so, in …
Broadwell, Langford and Kelmscott: Cotswolds to Thames
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… that to Faringdon was severed by the extension of Brize Norton airfield in 1951, and is now relatively minor, still …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… "Est michi collatum Ihc istud nomen amatum"; 5th by Robert Norton of Exeter, early 15th-century and inscribed "Sancte …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… contiguous with Whilton, with the former land of Muscott (Norton (11)) and with Brington; its name, shape and position … mentioned in Domesday Book, and is described with Muscott (Norton (11)) which lies only 1 km. to the N.W., the two …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 88 inhabitants; and comprising, with the township of Norton, 2879 acres, exclusively of 133 in the extra-parochial …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… framing and ceiling-beams. ConditionGood. b(7) Lower Norton Farm, house, 1,100 yards N.N.W. of the ruined chapel, …