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A History of the County of Oxford
… Wolvercote Church Church A chapel of ease at Wolvercote subject to the church of St. Peter-in-the-East, Oxford, was first recorded in 1236, but architectural …
A History of the County of Oxford
… estate at Cutteslowe was administered independently of Wolvercote from the Middle Ages; its economic organization … below. There is no early evidence for the open fields of Wolvercote, which seem to have been completely reorganized … of meadow, excluding Port Meadow which was described under Oxford. 96 Among the original endowments of Godstow abbey …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to have been no school in the parish before the beginning of the 19th century when dame or 'petty' schools were … or National system, closed shortly afterwards for lack of financial support, and in 1815 the three day schools … up to 416. 88 The school, which had been taken over by Oxford City after the boundary changes of 1929, became a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… WOLVERCOTE, an ancient parish lying on the north-west of the city and liberty of Oxford, c. 2 ½ miles north of the city centre, contained …
A History of the County of Oxford
… government Local government In 1279 Godstow abbey had view of frankpledge in Wolvercote, and the royal bailiff had entry … manor only by the king's writ. The abbey also had rights of toll, pleas and perquisites of court, infangthief and … work both in the parish 2 and perhaps also in Oxford. There was no workhouse. In 1803 a total of 11 adults, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Roger d'Ivri held WOLVERCOTE in 1086, and Godfrey held of him. 61 There is no further record of the under-tenancy, and d'Ivri's successors probably held … afterwards he, Reynold of St. Valery, and the citizens of Oxford added other land on the edge of Port Meadow. 69 At the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Wolvercote Nonconformity Nonconformity. Richard Owen of Godstow was returned as a recusant in the 1590s, 64 and … Cheriton, a freeholder, and his uncle Edmund Reynolds of Gloucester Hall, Oxford, who was buried in Wolvercote in 1630, were also …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Wolvercote Site and remains of Godstow abbey Site and remains of Godstow abbey Godstow abbey was built on an island between … Ffennell of Wytham Abbey, who in 1924 gave the site to Oxford University, on trusts to preserve the ruins for the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wombridge Local government LOCAL GOVERNMENT. Records of Wombridge court baron survive from 1697, 1708, 1711, 1717, … probate jurisdiction until 1857. 13 Priorslee was part of Shifnal manor and parish 14 and Ketley Bank part of … to rented offices in Market Street. Its offices were in Oxford Street c. 1905- c. 1940, thereafter in Stafford Road. …
Alumni Oxonienses
… 1600. See Woodhall. Woodarde, Nicholas s. Christopher, of Mechlen in Flanders, gent. Magdalen Hall, matric. 9 Oct., 1635, aged 18. [ 5] Woodbridge, Benjamin of Wilts, sacerd. Magdalen Hall, matric. 9 Nov., 1638, aged … Kent); buried in the college chapel 4 Nov., 1590; will at Oxford proved 22 Jan. following. See Gutch, i. 231. Woodgate, …