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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… 6 in. XIX N.W.). Woodhurst is a parish and village 3 m. N. of St. Ives. The Chapel of St. John the Baptist and the Manor … same time. The S. front is symmetrically arranged with a band-course between the storeys and a small plaster cove below the eaves. The N. wing has a moulded band-course between the storeys on both sides. In the E. wall …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… SU 01 SW) Woodlands covers 2,594 acres in a broad strip of land extending from the R. Allen in the W. to the Dorset … by streams flowing S. and S.E. Bagshot Beds in the S.E. of the parish result in open heathland. The parish came into … plinth, first-floor level is marked by a three-course plat-band and the eaves have a plaster cove. Many openings have …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… 09 SW, c TL 09 NE, d TL 09 SE) The parish, once a chapelry of Nassington, covers some 420 hectares lying across Willow Brook, between 80 ft. and 210 ft. above OD. Most of it is on bands of clays, limestones and sands which outcrop along the valley …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Fig. 212 Woodnewton Village Map Woodnewton is a parish of 565 hectares in the Forest of Rockingham. The village lies on the N. side of Willow Brook and consists of a single street with a back …
A History of the County of Oxford
… survived until the 1930s. They were listed in a survey of 1279 and as 'the king's rents' in 1468-9. 48 Later the … their arrangement was partly topographical, as was that of the late 18th-century land tax assessments and the census … no. 16. 85 No. 14 was a private school under the name of Hope House in the 1840s and early 1850s, 86 and was taken …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Development of the town Development of the town New Woodstock developed at a gate into the royal … houses. 21 The most clearly Vanbrughian in style are Hope House (no. 14 Oxford Street), built in 1708, and the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… its original market, 66 but it remained a small community of tradesmen, craftsmen, and royal servants. Service in the … other names were derived from the building crafts of mason, carpenter, thatcher, and slater, the metal crafts … at no. 10 Oxford Street before moving in the 1850s to Hope House (no. 14), where they used the former malthouse …
A History of the County of Oxford
… dame schools; it was a popular place for boarding schools, of which some took day pupils. The rector, although a keen … and in 1831 that 'scarcely any residents lacked the means of education'. 85 Continued failure to respond to national … the mid 1840s. 59 There was a girls' boarding school at Hope House in 1846 and until 1850. 60 Hensington House was a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was at Woodstock Park, which he visited regularly for love of Rosamund Clifford; he therefore provided land outside the … respectively; music was provided by the Oxford Yeomanry band and the Woodstock Drum and Fife band. 79 In the later 19th century branches of national …
A History of the County of Oxford
… as a borough in the early 14th century. 78 The development of self-government was only gradual, for the vill was merely one of several 'members' of the royal manor of Woodstock, whose … began to buy national lottery tickets in the vain hope of financing a new town hall. 91 Loans from councillors …