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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Village Map Woodnewton is a parish of 565 hectares in the Forest of Rockingham. The village lies on the N. side of Willow Brook and consists of a single street with a back lane on the … party wall between the cottages is dog-legged. (21) Willow Brook Farm, formerly the Hare and Hounds Inn, two storeys, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Nassington, covers some 420 hectares lying across Willow Brook, between 80 ft. and 210 ft. above OD. Most of it is on … limestones and sands which outcrop along the valley of the brook. Prehistoric and Roman For crop-marks in the parish, see Fotheringhay (2125) and Fig. 53. Medieval …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Key to Buildings Section Scale 1:3,348 (approx. 19 in. to 1 mile). Quitrents imposed on the town's original … burgages survived until the 1930s. They were listed in a survey of 1279 and as 'the king's rents' in 1468-9. 48 Later the corporation acquired the quitrents 49 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 35 and when chapel and burial ground were reconsecrated in 1336 the bishop's licence was granted not to the rector but to the vill. 36 In 1445 the leading burgesses joined with the chapelwardens in an agreement with Bladon parishioners over Woodstock's …
A History of the County of Oxford
… doorway provides the earliest evidence of building in the town. The town in the later Middle Ages probably … 'Castle Wall', 32 and a street, possibly the later Upper Brook Hill, leading to the same feature was mentioned c. … Lane and Union Street in the later 18th century, and in Brook Hill from the early 19th; Union Street began as the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Economic history Economic history In the century after its foundation the town prospered, … employer in 1851 with 43 men and 600 women, lived in Brook Hill on the later gas works site, but seems also to … no. 3 Market Place until the early 20th century. 81 John Dean, ironmonger at no. 9 Market Place by 1849, sold cattle …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Introduction Introduction In 1279 local jurors asserted that New Woodstock was founded … 16 As late as 1750 a triangle of land at the junction of Brook Hill and Upper Brook Hill remained in Hensington, 17 suggesting that the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… BOROUGH TO 1886.When New Woodstock was incorporated in 1453 75 the borough and its customs were ancient. The … as the shambles stalls and cottages in Common Acre and Brook Hill; by 1828 the traditional reserved rents were only … 1750s, 24 on the later Union Street from the 1760s, and at Brook Hill in the early 19th century. 25 The house later the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… St. Wookey (St. Matthew) WOOKEY ( St. Matthew), a parish, in the union of Wells, hundred of Wells-Forum, E. division of … king's books at 11. 7. 11.; net income, 352; patrons, the Dean and Canons of Windsor, who are appropriators of the … parish of Richard's-Castle, union of Ludlow, hundred of Munslow, S. division of Salop, 3 miles (S. E.) from Ludlow 5 …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Church CHURCH. The church of Woolaston was recorded in the foundation grant by Walter de Clare to Tintern Abbey in 1131. 91 Following a dispute with Llanthony Priory, lords … 1860. 22 Philip Cliffield and William Cliff, who were both Dean of Bangor, exchanged the living twice in 1396 and 1397. …