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A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Introduction WITNEY BOROUGH Introduction The town of Witney, 1 by the river Windrush some 10 miles (16 km.) … f. 23; 11M59/B1/203, f. 21; cf. Oxon. Sessions of Peace (ORS 53), p. 86. Hants RO, 11M59/B1/203, f. 21; above …
A History of the County of Oxford
… ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDINGS 1 Building Materials In the 1640s Witney was described as a stone-built town, 2 and the parish church and the excavated remains of the bishop of Winchester's manor house show that there was … wars of John's reign. Further disruptions occurred during peace time. Royal servants seized goods from the bishop's …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Jurisdiction and Borough Courts Borough Autonomy By the mid 13th century bishops of Winchester had secured wide-ranging liberties within their … included in the town charities under successive Charity Commission decrees, and although from 1744 they were leased …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… WIVELISCOMBE ( St. Andrew), a market-town and parish, in the union of Wellington, W. division of the hundred of Kingsbury, W. … alderman, high steward, and recorder are justices of the peace, with exclusive jurisdiction. The corporation hold …
A History of the County of Essex
… Wivenhoe Charities for the poor WIVENHOE THE ancient parish of Wivenhoe, c. 3 miles … 64-9. V.C.H. Essex, iv. 227; v. 212; Essex Sessions of the Peace, ed. E. C. Furber, 17-18; Morant, Essex, i. 407; ii. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Andrew) WOLLASTON ( St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Chepstow, hundred of Westbury, W. division of the county … of the common-council shortly to apply for a separate commission of the peace. The powers of the county debt-court …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wombleton - Woodbury Wombleton WOMBLETON, a township, in the parish of Kirkdale, union of Helmsley, wapentake of Ryedale, N. … infantry; but they were pulled down on the restoration of peace. The trade mainly consists in the exportation of corn, …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wombridge Growth of settlement GROWTH OF SETTLEMENT. The original endowment of St. Leonard's priory seems to have … the town centre by the International Voluntary Service for Peace on the initiative of J. E G. Cartlidge, vicar of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Woodditton WOODDITTON Woodditton lies immediately south of Newmarket, 8 a town established c. 1200 astride the road forming the parish boundary between Woodditton and … 43 In 1953 the estate granted a long lease to the Forestry Commission, which cut down the mature oak, cleared the …
The Environs of London
… WOODFORD Etymology. Situation. Boundaries. Quantity of land. Soil. This place was so called from the ford in the wood, where Woodford-bridge now is. It lies … whenever the parishioners should demand it, after a good peace should be settled in church and state. Among the debts …