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The Environs of London
… WOODFORD Etymology. Situation. Boundaries. Quantity of land. Soil. This place was so called from the ford in the … wood, where Woodford-bridge now is. It lies in the hundred of Becontree, at the distance of about seven miles and a half … for two sermons, to be preached before the University of Oxford; the one on Shrove Tuesday, and the other on the last …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Margaret) WOODHALL ( St. Margaret), a parish, in the union of Horncastle, S. division of the wapentake of Gartree, parts of Lindsey, county of … at 22. 8. 4.; net income, 392; patrons, Exeter College, Oxford. The church contains an altar-tomb representing the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… West Woodmancote WOODMANCOTE, a tything, in the parish of North Cerney, union of Winchcomb, hundred of Rapsgate, Eastern division of the … 709; patrons, the Dean and Canons of Christ-Church, Oxford. The tithes of Wood-Norton have been commuted for 430, …
A History of the County of Sussex
… in plurality with Albourne, 79 and in 1978 it became part of the united benefice of Henfield with Shermanbury and Woodmancote, the parishes … an illegitimate son of Lord Wellesley, apparently lived in Oxford for most of the 22 years of his incumbency. 19 Two …
A History of the County of Oxford
… survived until the 1930s. They were listed in a survey of 1279 and as 'the king's rents' in 1468-9. 48 Later the … their arrangement was partly topographical, as was that of the late 18th-century land tax assessments and the census … of particular note is based on those sources. 1. Nos. 8-12 Oxford Street Bought in 1587 with Richard Cornwell's bequest …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to those founded in the chantry house on the north side of the church by Thomas Croft (d. 1488). 77 In 1551 the … alternative house with a large close in Hollow Way (later Oxford Street), rebuilding it in 1612 and again in 1724. 79 In 1614 it housed old men and women; a list of doles to the almshouse poor c. 1630 evidently included …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Church Church. The church, of which the south doorway is of the 12th century, was presumably established when the … rector, Edward Evans, although he was probably the noted Oxford university preacher of that name. 86 On some days …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Development of the town Development of the town New Woodstock developed at a gate into the royal … probably confined on the north and east by the road, later Oxford Street, to the Old Woodstock river crossing. 90 The …
A History of the County of Oxford
… its original market, 66 but it remained a small community of tradesmen, craftsmen, and royal servants. Service in the … other names were derived from the building crafts of mason, carpenter, thatcher, and slater, the metal crafts … at Green, Richard Marden, and the hospital of St. John, Oxford, owed over a third of the total rental. 70 The …
A History of the County of Oxford
… dame schools; it was a popular place for boarding schools, of which some took day pupils. The rector, although a keen … and in 1831 that 'scarcely any residents lacked the means of education'. 85 Continued failure to respond to national … Mary Dolman gave money to trustees to buy property in Oxford Street (now nos. 8-12), 89 and the school probably …