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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… here. Woodstock gives the title of Viscount to the Duke of Portland. Woodstone (St. Augustine) WOODSTONE ( St. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of most other large inns are known. Hist. MSS. Com. 29, Portland, vi, p. 181. Blenheim Mun., shelf G 1, box 11; …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1695. Bodl. G. A. Oxon. a 110, f. 15. Hist. MSS. Com. 29, Portland, vii, p. 305. Cf. Parl. Hist. ii. 82, which … Ibid. ff. 71-3, 84, 86, 90, 92, 140-2. Hist. MSS. Com. 29, Portland, vii, p. 305; B.L. Add. MS. 61468, f. 183. Above, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a handsome guard-house, with a portico of four columns of Portland stone. Beyond this is the Brass-foundry, erected by … The building is of light brick, ornamented with Portland stone, and consists of six principal ranges, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… amongst which are, Welbeck Abbey the seat 'of the Duke of Portland; Clumber, the mansion of the Duke of Newcastle; and … 2.; net income, 388; patron and impropriator, the Duke of Portland: the tithes were commuted for land and corn-rents in …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… is owned chiefly by the duke of Norfolk. The duke of Portland has the great tythes. The open fields, commons, and …
A History of the County of York
… E. C. Walcott, Tradit. and Customs Caths. (1872), 90. B.M. Portland MS. vi, f. 93; Benson, Hist. York, iii. 105-6. Gent, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… almost flat limestone tableland formed by the underlying Portland and Purbeck Beds, between 350 ft. and 450 ft. above …
A History of the County of Sussex
… were increasing in the narrow, congested streets around Portland Road, Montague Street, and elsewhere. 27 …
A History of the County of Sussex
… for maintenance. Two more houses were built c. 1867 in Portland Road, 29 with money bequeathed by Robert Humphrys's … in 1971 those in Humphrys Road were rebuilt and those in Portland Road modernized. By will proved 1970 Edith Hastings …