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A History of the County of Oxford
… Mid-Oxfordshire Gas and Water Co., established a gas works south of Aston road c. 1907. Water was supplied from a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by a rectangular lodging range of 2 storeys, and on the south by c. 10 m. of curtain wall. Before 1660 the gatehouse … of a symmetrical front of 4 bays, which extended north and south to round corner-towers with 3 tiers of arrowslits, and … similar gatehouses on the east and, possibly, north and south, implying a symmetrical plan grouped around a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 10 The Presbyterian Samuel Birch, intruded into the south vicarage in 1658, instituted a lectureship, and held … as well as Bampton; following his ejection he rented the south vicarage house for two years before being removed to … chapel with c. 100 sittings, served from Cote, was built south of High Street c. 1778. 18 Prominent members in the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… north and much of the east by the river Windrush, on the south by the river Thames, and on part of the south-west by the river Leach. From an early date, however, … counties, and two to another Oxfordshire hundred. 2 In the south and south-east the hundred lay chiefly on alluvium and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… founded early in the 13th century, 1 stood just outside South Bar or St. John's Bar. The only record of its … as at two other houses, No. 27 High Street 13 and No. 3 South Bar (the 'Swan'). All the bays are rectangular on plan, except for No. 3 South Bar, in which the sides are canted; they probably date, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… awarded in 1852 c. 62 were set aside for the Vicar of South Banbury. 43 From the 12th century, when Robert Chesney, … 1845) was largely responsible for the creation in 1846 of South Banbury parish, of which he became first incumbent. 130 … enthusiastic supporter of schemes to build Christ Church, South Banbury, and St. Paul's, Neithrop, and for the latter …
A History of the County of Oxford
… least three, perhaps four, distinct field systems. In the south, mostly beyond the Saltway, were the fields of Wickham … the Broughton road, and that of Calthorpe (584 a.) to the south. 1 Because of subsequent changes in the fields' … there is no direct evidence. 10 The crest of Crouch Hill, south-west of the town, was never cleared, but the rest of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… left by William Hebcraft was reinvested in 1797 in 100 old South Sea annuities, part of the total of 716 13 s. 4 d. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was bounded on the east by the River Cherwell, on the south by the Sor Brook, and in the north-west partly by … to Banbury, crossed the Cherwell there, and continued south-westwards to the Cotswolds. 20 Probably the position of … from Droitwich to Princes Risborough passed just to the south of the town, crossing the Cherwell probably between …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in one case they were North Bar, East Bar, West Bar, and South Bar, in the other North Bar, East Bar, West Bar, and … when a workhouse, a group of buildings on the east side of South Bar, was acquired. 129 The workhouse was leased for … to store 400,000 cu. ft. of gas was built in 1933. The South Midland Gas Co. obtained control of the Banbury Company …