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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… Dry Drayton 14 DRY DRAYTON (O.S. 6 ins. aTL 36 S.E., bTL 46 S.W., cTL 35 N.E.) The parish of Dry Drayton, 2421 acres in …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Crown granted the advowson to Thomas Hutton with the abbey's manor, 40 with which it descended until the 19th century. … close west of the churchyard and north of Crowland abbey's manor house. 70 Edward Angier, rector 1633-65, had rebuilt … in 1972, of brick and glass. It included an octagonal room with a central altar, used for services on Sundays, and …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… west to High Street, leading north along the village's western side into the Drift, and there was a gap between … created by the street north of the church. Dry Drayton's inns included the Five Bells, opened after 1810, where the … a gymkhana held at Scotland Farm. 10 There was a reading room by 1899. 11 In 1913 the parish council tried to revive …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 58 He died in 1552. His son and heir John Hutton 59 (d. s.p. 1596) devised all his lands to his wife Elizabeth. 60 She married successively in 1597 Sir William Hinde (d. s.p. 1606) of Madingley, 61 with whom she obtained in 1603 a … the house contained a hall, a little parlour, a dining room, and six chambers, including 'Mr. Lawrence's', 96and had …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… of Methill, parish of Markinch, county of Fife, 6 miles (S. E.) from Markinch; containing 348 inhabitants. This … farm of Vatten, a long narrow passage leads into a central room arched with stone, from which branch off several … the English fleet in 1481, it was bravely defended by its governor, Andrew Wood, to whom, for his services on that …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… than most CANVAS, and used for small SAILs and for MEN's outer clothing, particularly for sailors. The meanings of … dumb-wait[er]] A piece of FURNITURE for use in the DINING ROOM that was designed to dispense with the services of a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… church claimed rights. 89 In 1601, however, Ducklington's glebe included what was thought to have been a churchyard … for which the tenants of Claywell farm continued to pay 2 s. 6 d. a year to the churchwardens into the 20th century. 90 … c. 1800. A similar roof beam survives in the parish room, formerly the tithe barn, also largely rebuilt c. 1800. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… but declined the expense of fitting it out. 17 Ducklington's day and Sunday schools, supported chiefly by the rector, … attracted a government grant, and placed the day school's finances on a sound footing. Profits from a sale of parish … 27 The infants' classroom was enlarged in 1896 and a third room added in 1901. 28 The school was reorganized as a junior …
A History of the County of Oxford
… ditch of Home wood turns sharply westwards, 'Scot's hollow' the declivity occupied by the Long Train, and 'Wenburh's bridge' where the stream on the edge of Boys wood turns … the school, were the Baptist chapel of 1868, 13 a parish room, established in the former tithe barn c. 1930 and much …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a 'law day of itself', 56 and in the 1670s Bampton's steward was holding the residual annual view in Ducklington … unfree tenants of Ducklington manor owed suit to the lord's three-weekly court. 59 Perquisites of Ducklington manor … an overseer and waywarden; later it met in the parish room at Hardwick. In 1873 the rector chose a churchwarden to …