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A History of the County of Oxford
… have been definitely identified within Oxfordshire, though in one or two instances the remains may have formed part of … There are, however, traces of several other buildings in the county which also may turn out to be country-houses or … see N.O. Arch. Soc. 18535, p. 17.] Group II 4. Steeple Aston. Wood records the discovery in October 1658 in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Street, which crossed the northern part of the county in its course from London and St. Albans to Cirencester and … of the main Thames valley, and this lack of directness in its course supports its preRoman origin, which has been … 2. Called Lower Icknield Way, running north of Chinnor and Aston Rowant, and lost at the modern Oxford-Stokenchurch …
A History of the County of Oxford
… on a ridge and the north slope of the hill (above a brook) in a field called 'The Ridgeway' on the NW. border of the … or ford at Pool's Bottom, see p. 275. See also Wychwood. Aston Bampton. See Cote. Aston Rowant. A cremation-burial, apparently of the late 2nd …
Survey of London
… Rosebery Avenue was the second of the two new highways in Clerkenwell planned by the Metropolitan Board of Works … and, in the later part, Baroque (Ills 152, 153, 159). Aston Webb, the assessor of the design competition, expressed … president of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Aston Webb then chiefly known as the designer of the Victoria …
Survey of London
… of Needlework CHAPTER XVII - Royal School of Needlework In 1872 the School was founded in Sloane Street, as the School of Art Needlework, with the … of Belcher's Chartered Accountants' building and Aston Webb's competition design for the South Kensington …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Runwick Rufford (St. Mary) RUFFORD ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Ormskirk, hundred of Leyland, N. division of … railway, to run across the Mersey, past Runcorn, to Aston-by-Sutton, there to join the Liverpool and Birmingham … and a chain-factory. The parish includes the chapelries of Aston-by-Sutton, Daresbury, Halton, and Thelwall; and the …
Rural Parishes: Harpsden
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… parish just south of Henley, stretching from the Thames in the east to higher wooded ground 3 miles (6 km) west, and … 1 The 20th century saw a limited amount of development in the south-east close to Shiplake, but most of the parish … for allegedly prostituting his wife Anna Sophia (ne Aston), whom he later divorced, to the prince of Wales and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Ruscomb (St. James) RUSCOMB ( St. James), a parish, in the union of Wokingham, hundred of Sonning, county of … for 170. 1., and the glebe comprises 46 acres: 24 acres in Aston parish, producing 60 per annum, were purchased by Queen … a parish, in the union of Church-Stretton, hundred of Munslow, S. division of Salop, 4 miles (E. S. E.) from …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… It also included part of East Wall (the rest being in a detached part of Eaton-under-Heywood parish), and most … of Gretton township, the remainder (161 a., 65 ha.) being in Cardington parish. The Rushbury part of Gretton included … small areas, anciently parts of Eaton-under-Heywood and Munslow parishes, to Rushbury C.P. 81 This article deals with …
Survey of London
… ground between Rutland Gardens and the floorcloth factory in Trevor Place, concluding with the joint redevelopment of most of this site and that of the factory in the 1970s. South Place In the nineteenth century the name … in France. 16 The architect for this may have been Sir Aston Webb, who carried out minor alterations to the house in …