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A History of the County of Oxford
… in St. Giles's parish. 91 In 1636 the open field arable, on the higher ground in the east, was divided into four … land for 6 ploughteams although only 5 were recorded, 1 on the demesne and 4 on the tenants' land. In 1279 a total of 28 ½ yardlands, 8 in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… schools were recorded. 76 A Sunday school, started in 1813 on the 'new' or National system, closed shortly afterwards … to pay the difference himself. 81 A new school was built on the glebe land immediately west of the church in 1855. 82 … 51 boys and girls and 64 infants daily and by 100 children on Sundays; the vicar reported in 1868 that parents contrived …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Introduction WOLVERCOTE, an ancient parish lying on the north-west of the city and liberty of Oxford, c. 2 ½ … changes in 1857 and 1868) followed streams of the Thames on the west, the Banbury road on part of the east, small streams on part of the north, and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… chief baron of the Exchequer. 65 Walter settled the manor on his second wife Anne and the children of that marriage, … granted Edith, the first abbess, the land called GODSTOW on which she had built her abbey, and soon afterwards he, … of St. Valery, and the citizens of Oxford added other land on the edge of Port Meadow. 69 At the Dissolution the estate …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Woodditton's bounds were beaten along the frontages on the south side of Newmarket High Street. 10 Newmarket was … above 90 m. (295 ft.) rises gently to 120 m. (394 ft.) on the Cheveley and Stetchworth boundaries. Below 90 m. the … drops more steeply to 30 m. (98 ft.) in Newmarket. Springs on the plateau once fed streams draining north which are now …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… parish of Woodford lies between Salisbury and Amesbury, on the western side of the River Avon. The parish is bounded on the east by the winding course of the river and on the west by the old turnpike road from Salisbury to …
A History of the County of Essex
… for the usual petty offences, including encroachments on the waste, the unlicensed sale of ale, sheltering … ditches or repair roads. The court also regulated grazing on the common. As well as constables one or two bread- and … 4 d. an acre in 1647 but after 1659 rates were assessed on property values: 1 s. in the pound in 1707, rising in the …
A History of the County of Essex
… mead, 'the Parson's Grove', and another acre of wood on the north side of Jack of Lea's Grove. 20 In 1840 there … lights and surmounted by a fanlight. A Regency bow window on the south side formerly had a canopied balcony above it. A … 33 By the early 18th century two services were being held on Sundays, with communion celebrated monthly; by the 1760s …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Allen at about 140 ft. above O.D. the land rises gently, on Chalk, to a low N.-S. ridge capped by Reading Beds, about … of a Neolithic henge (20). Later settlement developed on the Reading Beds and London Clay. Woodlands village, first … but it appears to have been situated near Bagman's Copse, on the ridge between Woodlands and Knowlton, about a mile …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1:3,348 (approx. 19 in. to 1 mile). Quitrents imposed on the town's original burgages survived until the 1930s. … The following account of sites of particular note is based on those sources. 1. Nos. 8-12 Oxford Street Bought in 1587 … transferred to the corporation in 1599 and usually granted on long leases to provide the bulk of the school's income. 53 …