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Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… was discovered by chance under part of the arable common field and was excavated by S. Lysons in 1811 (Plate 51). 4 … yds. E. of (1), extends along the edge of a modern arable field for some 200 yds., adjacent to a spring. The debris … from clearance and dumping from another part of the common field, perhaps nearer (2). …
A History of the County of Oxford
… adjoining rectory land, long rented as a school playing field, was bought outright. By the 1930s the need for further …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to 1,400 people processed from Church Leys to the Earlys' field at Newland for games and sports, and a Blue Ribbon … in aid of War Bonds Week, and in 1919 a captured German field gun given to the town as a war trophy was placed under …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and to serve such writs themselves. 139 The names Galloway field and Gib's cross (in Curbridge) may preserve memory of a … a private lunatic asylum in Witney at No. 33 High Street (Field House). Inmates included a few paupers until 1832, and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… planning grounds, 59 and the church subsequently moved to Field House on the corner of High Street and Welch Way, where … in the town hall by 1933, moving the following year to Field House (No. 33 High Street), where they maintained a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the hiding-place of Lord Lovat, after his flight from the field of Culloden. The village, which was anciently a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and Independents, and a Roman Catholic chapel. In a field near the village is a lofty circular tower, supposed to …
A History of the County of Essex
… a year received clothes or material. As the rent of the field rose towards the middle of the century, so the number … and the number of beneficiaries decreased. 17 In 1973 the field was sold for £41,000 for residential development; in …