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A History of the County of Oxford
… from the late 16th century the houses formed an island site north of nos. 77-81 Oxford Street. The site was … period but retain 17th-century features. 50. The Crown The island site occupied by the Crown belonged to the Weller … house owed a chantry quitrent, suggesting that the island site was medieval in origin. 92 In the 1680s the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Rectory Lane, and probably Chaucer's Lane, while the large island of buildings dividing Market Street from High Street … finally compounded for. 2 Another tenement on the central island also carried the high quitrent of 1 s. 6 d. and … already in use as a court house, also occupied the central island on the site of nos. 2-4 Market Street; 3 as elsewhere, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… a central lozenge-shaped pond with a flat, circular island in the middle. The enclosing ditches are linked to …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… are a later re-building. The Moat encloses a rectangular island about 150 ft. by 120 ft. now vacant of buildings. The …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… by Thomas Orde Powlett, Lord Bolton, when governor of the island, and commands a noble prospect of Spithead, and the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 1945 some dairy herds were replaced by cattle reared for beef. 2 From 1972 most of Wootton Rivers's land has been …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the inhabitants, abandoning the city, retired to the river-island Bevere, in which they fortified themselves, determined … abandoned the city, and shut themselves up in the island of Bevere. In the parliamentary war, Worcester was the … Scotland. Upon the Cloffocks, an extra-parochial meadow or island north-east of the town, on the banks of the Derwent, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… Marshall's Barn, about m. S.W. of (4). e(6). At Franklin's Island, nearly m. E. of (4). e(7). At Montpelier's Farm, …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… to provide its inmates with bread, cheese, and beer, and beef or mutton at least once a week. In 1803 £544 18 s. 6 d. …