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A History of the County of Oxford
… council acknowledged the need to improve infrastructure and attract new industries if Witney was not to become … firm Smiths' of England, attracting both local employees and large numbers of incomers, began a fundamental and … in part by easy access to car factories at Oxford, Coventry, and Birmingham, opened a motor accessory plant at …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… granted to the family of Clare, who gave the manor and church to Tintern Abbey, together with several granges … division of the county of Warwick, 5 miles (E. S. E.) from Coventry; containing, with the hamlets of Brandon, Bretford, … living is a perpetual curacy, in the gift of the Bishop of Lichfield: the tithes payable to the Duke of Cleveland have …
A History of the County of Oxford
… abbey consolidated much of its demesne land in Wolvercote and St. Giles's parish into a single block of land straddling … the process: in return for land at Ailmerswell, Horestone, and Hawsland ditch in the north end of St. Giles's, Godstow … in 1558 he held land in Hanborough, Chipping Norton, and Coventry (Warws.), in most of which he was succeeded by his …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… parish. No vicarage was endowed before the Dissolution, and afterwards the benefice (if there was one) seems to have been simply a donative and outside the bishop's ordinary jurisdiction. 50 It was … 1854 patronage of the living was vested in the bishop of Lichfield, patron in 1982. 84 In 1853 and 1855 the living, …
Alumni Oxonienses
… graduate), said to be S.T.D.; a minister in Salisbury, and at Newbury, Berks, ejected 1662 for nonconformity, … Foster's Index Eccl. [ 30] Woodley, William s. William, of Coventry, pleb. p.p. Christ Church, matric. 20 May, 1664, … Dorset, 1673-4, and of Shrivenham, Berks, 1675, canon of Lichfield 1678, rector of St. Bartholomew, near the Royal …
A History of the County of Essex
… at the northern end of Becontree hundred. Its western and northern boundaries ran through Epping Forest, part of … was amalgamated with that of Wanstead, to the south, and in 1937 the borough of Wanstead and Woodford was formed. … Gothic revival, was a native. 154 Literary figures include Coventry Patmore, the poet, who was born at Woodford in 1823, …
A History of the County of Essex
… does not seem to have been appropriated, even temporarily, and its incumbent has always been styled a rector. But part … (15891619), later bishop successively of Bristol and of Lichfield and Coventry, was non-resident; Woodford was the first of many …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by Henry II. The borough was created within Bladon parish and its church remained a chapel of ease, although rarely … rural deanery was established by the mid 13th century, and the rectors of Bladon were often called rectors of … gallery between two columns, in 1683 Edward, earl of Lichfield, was given permission to clip arches to accommodate …
A History of the County of Oxford
… land outside the park so that men might build hospitia, and he granted a market to the new residents. 5 The story is … Woodstock was one of Henry's principal residences before and after his association with Rosamund and indeed the town … road passed 2 miles to the north, and the Ox-ford-Coventry road 2 miles to the east. 47 After Blenheim Palace …
A History of the County of Oxford
… New Woodstock was incorporated in 1453 75 the borough and its customs were ancient. The plots laid out at the town's foundation were held by burgage tenure, 76 and the burgesses from the outset, in addition to their … introduction of peers such as Edward Henry Lee, earl of Lichfield, and James Bertie, Lord Norreys, became an accepted …