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A History of the County of Oxford
… House. Part of Butt close in the mid 17th century was Cockpit yard; in 1715 a large enclosed cockpit was built at the west end of the eastern section of … manufacturers' houses. In the mid 19th century the former cockpit and the malthouse range behind Hope House were used …
A History of the County of Oxford
… have worked elsewhere, and in 1855 took over the former cockpit in Rectory Lane 57 which remained a glove factory … and a factory added; 68 the firm closed c. 1957. Godden's cockpit factory was taken over c. 1908 by A. G. Spalding …
A History of the County of Oxford
… MS. Top. Oxon. c 157: diary of Hen. Meux, curate. For cockpit, below, Bldgs. no. 35. e.g. Boro. Mun. 78/2, Aug. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to the mayor's Michaelmas feast. A lease of ground for a cockpit in 1715 stipulated that councillors should have free … extended in stages from the mid 17th century, and the cockpit site established in 1715. 22 There were encroachments … the King's Arms, the Woodstock Arms, and the former cockpit and pest house, were sold in 19434, and the former …
A History of the County of Oxford
… as political manager to his ownership of the town's cockpit and to his office of park bailiff, from whom freemen …
A History of the County of Somerset
… known since the early 20th century as the Grange, 18 whose cockpit 19 may have been formed from the dovecot by the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… number of public houses had remained fairly constant. 44 Cockpit yard at the Moss was mentioned in 1802. 45 The …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
… It has been suggested that this is a later addition for a cockpit or some such purpose. There is, however, no real …