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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Eastern division of the county of Gloucester, 5 miles (N. by W.) from Cirencester; containing 256 inhabitants. … rape of Bramber, W. division of Sussex, 6 miles (N. E. by E.) from Steyning; containing 378 inhabitants. The road … of fine steel has very much decayed since the rise of Birmingham and Sheffield: those made here formerly brought …
A History of the County of Oxford
… sites may therefore be traced, and identification is aided by a valuation of c. 1910 listing owners and tenants of all … chantry, dispersed after 1551. 54 The house was occupied by the schoolmaster in 1609 and later let to trandesman. 55 … were noted for the best homebrewed beer between London and Birmingham. 7 By then no. 32 seems to have been separately …
A History of the County of Oxford
… servants. Service in the park and household is denoted by 13th-century surnames 67 such as Parker, Porter, Franklin, … in relatively few hands: the c. 140 houses were held by only 97 rent-payers, and Adam Bennet, Robert Marshall, … 15 s. and 2 gn. a week. 96 Competition from cheaper Birmingham and Wolverhampton wares was intense by the 1780s, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1279 local jurors asserted that New Woodstock was founded by Henry II to provide lodgings for his retinue when he was … to the new residents. 5 The story is supported in part by other evidence, but Woodstock was one of Henry's principal … a twice-weekly service, and the Priors a weekly wagon to Birmingham. At that time no stage coaches operated from the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… again provided two M.P.s. Returns were usually made by the mayor and commonalty, implying that the franchise, as … of the death of a sitting member, 90 and the rejection by parliament of the freemen's choice when there was a double … MS. 19615, ff. 179-80; D. Green, Blenheim Palace, 135. Birmingham and Midland Inst. Trans. xii. 6. B.L. Add. MS. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Thedwastry, W. division of Suffolk, 6 miles (N. W. by W.) from Stow-Market; containing 942 inhabitants. This … part of the township of Dorrington, and part of that of Aston in the Staffordshire portion of the parish; the whole … 1832, and enlarged in 1840, educates 120 children; and at Aston is another school, built in 1842, in which are 20 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 70,000 acres of central Oxfordshire, bounded on the east by the river Cherwell, on the north by its tributary the … parks of the 18th century or earlier at North and Middle Aston, Glympton, Ledwell, Sandford, and Tackley; notable … neighbours such as Middle Barton, Stonesfield, Steeple Aston, and Wootton. The villages are built of local stone, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Worcester and W. divisions of the county, 111 miles (N. W. by W.) from London; containing 25,401 inhabitants. This … which is unquestionably of great antiquity, is enumerated by Nennius under the name of Caer Guorangon in his catalogue … have been erected on the banks of the Worcester and Birmingham canal and the Severn, and a considerable trade is …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… William Morrall sonne of Roberte Morrall late of Whitlady Aston borne at Whitlady Aston and kept at Ashe Whitlady Asheton by Mary White his mother untill aboutes three yares past at …