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A History of the County of Oxford
… further north, Norton ditch, evidently the Marsh Haddon brook mentioned in the boundaries of 1318. 14 The ancient … approximate landmark. 20 From Elm Bank ditch, called the brook of Aegel's spring in 958, the boundary of the ancient …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Abingdon almshouse. 60 Intermixed meadows south of Sharney brook were separately inclosed in 1851, and Shilton meadow … One or more of the weirs stood apparently on Isle of Wight brook, called the Black water or stream in 1650 and 1890; … removed before 1911, and a weir near the confluence of the brook and the Thames, removed before 1890. 96 By the early …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the parish boundary on the south and south-west. Highmoor brook formed the north-western boundary presumably by the … showed the later Bampton Inmead south of Isle of Wight brook as belonging to Aston. 39 Queenborough meadow, west of … mid 10th century. 44 From Kingsbridge, a crossing of Shill brook either at the end of modern Bridge Street or further …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in 1317 were probably in the canalized streams of Shill brook, and a dovecot in the garden was mentioned in leases …
A History of the County of Oxford
… an outer wall, both protected by a ditch. 113 The Cuttle Brook supplied water to the moats and, in 1510, to the castle … 126 In 1712 there were 'the remains of four bastions, a brook running without them'. 127 The cottage in which the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of Mill Lane, and its mill-pond was fed by the Cuttle Brook, which flowed from the North Bar along the south side … Wickham mill stood on a mill-stream cut north of the Sor Brook just west of the Bloxham road. 465 Its name first …
A History of the County of Oxford
… on the east by the River Cherwell, on the south by the Sor Brook, and in the north-west partly by Hanwell Brook and the ancient Banbury-Southam road; on the west side … of ordnance held in the castle were claimed by both Lord Brook, the parliamentarian commander of the Warwickshire …
A History of the County of Oxford
… for cleansing the streets, the shambles, and the Cuttle brook, for the use of official rubbish heaps, and for the burial of sewage. Pollution of the Cuttle brook and the River Cherwell was forbidden. 253 At an unknown … new works, and augmented its supply from the Sor Brook. A reservoir was erected in Woodgreen. 279 In 1947 the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… building. 93 Through the centre of the town ran the Cuttle Brook, 'the prile of fresh water' described by Leland. 94 The … apparently flowed down Parsons Street and into the Cuttle Brook; and a third stream flowed through West Bar, Sheep … c. 400 ft. To the south the ground falls away to the Sor Brook, to the north it rises towards Crouch Hill and …