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A History of the County of Oxford
… elsewhere, early corporate life in the borough had centred on a religious guild, 45 and that the instruments of 1453 … The site, a house at the park gate with an attached close on the south, had been acquired by the corporation in the … that the corporation had met the cost in the past, 57 but on his death in 1837 his executors were obliged to pay …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the deliberate marking out of a site, probably confined on the north and east by the road, later Oxford Street, to … been laid out only when New Woodstock was planned, and on its south side is the church, where a 12th-century doorway … 40 a.; its 19th-century extent (61 ½ a.) included meadows on the north not granted to the borough until the 15th …
A History of the County of Oxford
… market town except Eynsham. 72 In 1327 Woodstock's assessment of c. 40 s. was paid by only 18 inhabitants, of … 7 paid more than 3 s. 73 In 1334 the town was assessed on total wealth of only c. 38. 74 Population seems to have … paid as much as 8 for his lands. 77 By 1581 the town's assessment and the distribution of its wealth was similar to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… College, Oxford, who transferred the loan from the college on the understanding that fellows would supply the mastership … library. 95 The earliest grammar school may have been on the site of no. 10 Oxford Street, where a former … then that the school was moved to a former chantry chapel on the north side of the church, where it remained until the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 36 s. 10 The site of New Woodstock, a well drained plateau on the edge of the Glyme valley opposite the royal palace, … borough comprised 61 � a. 14 Its boundary with the park on the west and south was probably established at its … prevented further expansion, and in 1635 Woodstock's assessment for ship money was only �20, compared with …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the profits were taken to include the quitrents set on burgages at the town's foundation and still listed in … of 466 13 s. 4 d. for the fee farm, a calculation based on an annual payment of 5 marks which presumably included 1 … by mortgaging the meadows. 97 Regular expenditure was on salaries, repairs, and the one surviving fee farm rent, and …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… area included Madgett, a detached piece of cultivated land on Tidenham Chase, and a long, narrow neck of land extending … and the steep wooded scarp of Madgett Hill. The promontory on which Ferry Farm stands was called Yewtree Headland ( Iwes … bank being much silted and the bank suffering erosion. 6 On the south-west the boundary follows the stream that flows …
A History of the County of Somerset
… its name derived from a Saxon personal name, 5 lies on the northern slope of the Polden ridge near its western … 7 In 1885 Withy Leaze, a detached part of Shapwick parish on the north-west boundary, was added to Woolavington, but in … parish. 10 The southern part lies between 19 m. (62 ft.) on a broad band of Lower Lias clay and limestone and 61 m. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… then very steeply, to attain a maximum height of 678 ft. on Telegraph Hill on its eastern boundary. Woolbeding House, north of the … ancient detail that survives is a Tudor stone fire-place on the first floor which has a moulded four-centred arch and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… containing 942 inhabitants. This place is situated on the road from Ipswich to Bury St. Edmund's, and was … of the largest horse-fairs in England is held at Woolpit on September 16th, and a large fair for bullocks on the 18th and 19th. The living is a rectory, valued in the …