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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
… Ancient and historical monuments in Westmorland Bampton 6 BAMPTON (D.c.) (O.S. 6 in. (a)VII, … widened on both sides. ConditionGood. c(5). Thornthwaite Hall, house and outbuilding about 1 m. S.S.W. of the church. … I.I. is cut on a panel above the doorway. c(11). Parish Hall, on site of old school, W. of the church, is modern, but …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Michael) BAMPTON ( St. Michael), a market-town and parish, in the union of Tiverton, hundred of Bampton, Collumpton and … which constables and other officers are appointed. A town-hall has been erected in the market-place by subscription. … with the parish, and contains 4182 acres. The town-hall is a modern brick building, and there is a gaol for the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… cruck-framed cottage north of the churchyard was mentioned in 1440, 47 and the discovery of encased timber frames in … an 18th-century parapet, seems formerly to have been a hall range flanked by short cross wings, a plan which … piers were built, then or soon after the central hall and rooms to its south were refitted, and the hall was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… rent charge of £6 for the poor of Bampton, Weald, and Lew. In the early 19th century it was distributed yearly in money, and the dole continued in 1854. 81 Leonard Wilmot … (d. 1675, £10 for bread by oral testimony), 97 Thomas Hall (£5 for bread by will proved 1693) and his wife Anne (£5 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… The churches of all those places were claimed as chapels in 1318, and most still buried at Bampton 'by ancient custom' in 1405 and in some cases until after the Reformation. 38 … extensive household furnishings including hangings in the hall, and kitchen and brewhouse utensils. 93 South vicars …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and Weald Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. AGRICULTURE. In the mid 10th century Bampton formed part of a large … and in 1840, following the building of the arcaded town hall for use as a market house, for cattle, being held … and masons, James Pettifer (d. 1842) built the town hall and Sandford House and worked at Ham Court, at the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… belonged to the lord of Haddon. 31 The northern boundary in the 18th century followed furlongs and old inclosures, the … demolished, at the top of Bridge Street, and of the town hall. 37 A market house, 'much ruined' in 1669, 38 was not … on the market place's north side east of the village hall, was erected in the early 1920s on the site of a house …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by the counts of Boulogne but challenged by Edward I in 1285. Seventeenth-century lords had waifs, strays, and … for emigrants, and from the 1850s to supervise the town hall; 57 from 1820, under the Vestries Act of 1819, a select … of inspectors which in the 1840s met monthly in the town hall and to whom the watchmen and beadle were answerable; the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… diminished by piecemeal grants, described below, 40 and in 1086 totalled 27½ hides; another ½ hide held by Ilbert de … c. 1256, when he received oaks and beams for his new hall, 77 and presumably there was an earlier royal manor … tenant received the first two floors, comprising a hall and parlour on the ground floor of the gatehouse with …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and Weald Other estates OTHER ESTATES. Land and a fishery in Weald granted to Osney abbey c. 1170 descended with the abbey's estate in Lew, and are treated below. 15 The Hospitallers held an … The north range, of two storeys, contained the parlour and hall, and the west wing the kitchen, with beyond it a broad …