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A History of the County of Gloucester
… waste, including the erection of cottages, were made at Park Hill, Woolaston Wood, and Brockweir in the late 17th and … and kilns were recorded at Woolaston and Park Hill c. 1955. 56 In 1526 a parishioner excusing his … were employed in agriculture. 61 In the later 19th century retail tradesmen included two shoemakers and five shopkeepers …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… occurs the place-name Mereway Grove, to Wyvern Pond. A park belonging to the lordship of Woolaston but in the fee of … to Tintern Abbey by Walter de Clare in 1131 7 and the name Park Hill, first recorded in 1661, 8 was still applied in … also as Bowlash immediately north of Mereway Grove. The park was presumably included in the assart of 200 a. in …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… in 1893 and a Sunday schoolroom added in 1967. 94 At Park Hill a chapel was built by the Particular Baptists in …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… building with an old wing at the S. end. b(12). Park Farm, house and outbuildings, nearly 1 m. N.N.E. of the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… in 1811 (O.S. 1811), and which were removed when Woolland Park was enlarged in the middle of the 19th century (Hutchins … furlongs up to 150 yds. long remain in Woolland Park. To N. and E. of the park further traces can be seen on air photographs (R.A.F. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… were possessed by the Jennison family. Woolsington Park is a handsome seat. Woolstanwood WOOLSTANWOOD, a … and hundred of Nantwich, S. division of the county of Chester, 3 miles (N. N. E.) from Nantwich; containing 64 … commuted for 145 payable to the lessee of the Bishop of Chester, and 35. 5. to the vicar. Woolton Priory, in a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a precipitous rock on which its foundations are laid: the park grounds are uncommonly beautiful. Wootton Hall, the seat … English style. Richard Montague, afterwards Bishop of Chester and of Norwich, was rector here. Wootton-Fitzpain … model of the old Buckingham Palace at Pimlico, stands in a park richly embellished with wood, and diversified with a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… (62 a.) and the extra parochial district of Blenheim Park (2,269 a.) belonged historically to the hundred but were … met at Old Woodstock, 19 presumably at a gate of the royal park. By the 17th century the hundred court was called the … Harcourt. At Great Tew, presumably because of the earl of Chester's influence, the lord claimed gallows and a view …
A History of the County of Oxford
… extraparochial places, notably Woodstock, later Blenheim, Park. Eynsham and Woodstock were boroughs and market towns. … estate, Woodstock manor, centred on the king's palace and park at Woodstock and encompassing several 'demesne towns', … Old Woodstock are treated in this volume. The manor and park were granted in 1705 to the duke of Marlborough, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… part of Savernake forest was inclosed as Savernake great park, and later the main Marlborough-Salisbury road ran …