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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… are interspersed with wood, and the scenery is pleasing. A district church, dedicated to St. George the Martyr, and … for the township of GildingWells, and the extra-parochial district of Walling-Wells, was erected here at an expense of … (N. N. W.) from the town of Leeds. The ecclesiastical district of Woodside was formed in August 1846, under the act …
A History of the County of Sussex
… joined Steyning union, 75 passing to Steyning West rural district in 1894. 76 From 1974 it was in Horsham district. P.R.O., C 135/59, no. 27. B.L. Harl. Roll N. 26. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Holloway. 73 The architect was George Wilkinson of Witney and the contractors Messrs. Wyatt of Oxford. 74 The … 1570 Richard Cornwell sold a house there to Thomas Yate of Witney. 10 Yate had earlier bought a shop on the north, the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in 1974 the property passed to West Oxfordshire district council. 44 In 1868 Samuel Lovegrove left c. £5 a … files; inf. from Blenheim Estate Office and West Oxon. district council; R. Mole, Cottage Improvement to Sheltered …
A History of the County of Oxford
… date the town was an ecclesiastical centre: Woodstock rural deanery was established by the mid 13th century, and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Its freedom from guild regulations and easier access to rural out-workers may have helped gloving there, although it …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Ban- bury's �40. 76 As the market centre of a troubled rural area Woodstock was concerned in the abortive agrarian … had fallen well behind the expanding Banbury and Witney. 1 Woodstock began to attract resident gentry, partly … anti-Blenheim group was usually active in local affairs. Rural distress in the town's hinterland provoked food riots …
A History of the County of Oxford
… property vested in the guardians of Woodstock union as the rural sanitary authority and in Wootton district highway board were transferred to the new … 1620s the justices sent some to the house of correction at Witney. 12 Whipping was a common punishment for minor …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 76 householders in the ancient borough, 165 in the added rural area, and 76 freemen living within 7 miles, 52 of them … the duke's influence, since he owned much of the rural part of the new constituency. Sir James Graham, trustee … for him, gained 119 votes in a poll of 262; transporting rural voters accounted for half his election expenses, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… I/16; County Mus., P.R.N. 4719-20; above, Intro. O.R.O., Witney Prim. Meth. Circuit, Q.M. min. bk. 1843-9. Ibid. MS. …