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A History of the County of Oxford
… 53 A day school started in 1814 was in 1815 attended by 8 boys and 7 girls under the instruction of an 'aged person'. The Sunday school had at that time 13 boys and 14 girls. 54 A rent charge on Windmill field of £7 a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… now producing more than 70 per annum, for teaching 26 boys; the master has a house, with a garden and orchard. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… but in the later Middle Ages the Hastings family acquired Boys wood ( c. 72 a.) on the northern edge of the parish, and … and 75½ a. of wood and coppice, a total of 407 a.; 51 Boys wood and the Lawns, c. 29 a. of pasture acquired with … pig house for 300 pigs was built near the Brighthampton-Boys wood lane. 85 When Manor farm was sold in 1949 only a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… ancient parish, was bounded on the north and north-east by Boys wood and Home wood on a line which in 958 seems to have … from a point on Aston's boundary south of Claywell Farm to Boys wood, is marked by a ditch, probably the dyke on … the north Yelford's boundary followed the southern edge of Boys wood, probably the Ducklington boundary in 958 and later …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and Philip Walwyn were acting jointly over rent from Boys wood in Standlake, 2 and the bulk of the Yelford … 3 the Walwyns' manor also included the Lawns, south of Boys wood and in Standlake, which as Boys breach had been granted in 1355 to Robert of Yelford by …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… now producing at least 86. 10. per annum, for thirty-two boys from any part of the country, preference being given to … endowed with rents now amounting to about 150, for forty boys of the Upper division of that parish, was, after his … languages, principally the gift of the founder. About 60 boys receive instruction in the classics, mathematics, and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… were granted to that body. The Blue-coat school for boys, held in an ancient building on Peaseholm Green, called … 20 per annum is paid to a schoolmaster for teaching twenty boys. An hospital was established in 1717, by Dr. Colton and … penitentiary, 5000; to the dispensary, 2000; the Blue-coat boys' school, 2000; the Grey-coat girls' school, 2000; St. …