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A History of the County of Oxford
… and the excavated remains of the bishop of Winchester's manor house show that there was high-quality stone building … been built parallel to the street. A house on High Street's east side, described in 1704, had a parlour, hall, entry, … Palace, was responsible for Woodstock town hall, and was a friend of the Witney rector Phipps Weston, 227 though by the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and the right to deliver and return royal writs, the king's officers being forbidden entry into the bishop's manors except in connection with Crown pleas. 1 In 1284 the … the later Middle Ages. 3 Within Witney manor the bishop's liberties and manorial rights were exercised by his bailiff …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the growing centrality of Nonconformity to the town's social and civic as well as religious life (Figs. 546). An … no. 488, was on Witney Street in Burford. Local inf. The Friend, 18 Aug. 1893, p. 539; sources cited have not been … 31 (1966), 1635. Secker's Visit. 32, 44, 174. The Friend, 18 Aug. 1893, p. 539; for Hart, ORO, MS Wills Oxon. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a. 2 r. 19 p. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 17. 10.; net income, 400; patron, the Rev. F. J. … of Wallingford, hundred of Ock, county of Berks, 4 miles (S. W.) from Abingdon; containing 580 inhabitants. It is … p. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at 12. 12. 6.; net income, 166; patrons and …
A History of the County of Essex
… the west side of the Colne was transferred to St. Barnabas's, Old Heath. 5 The value of the rectory was estimated at 4 … Colchester 1749-71, and rector of Paglesham 1752-71. A friend of the Corsellis family, he lived in Wivenhoe where he … are brasses to (1) William, viscount Beaumont (d. 1507), a friend of John 13th earl of Oxford, (2) his widow Elizabeth …
A History of the County of Essex
… a post office by 1853, probably the one which was in Queen's Road in 1887, and a sub post office at Wivenhoe Cross by … settlement. 23 The place name, Wivenhoe, meaning Wifa's ridge or spur of land, 24 suggests early Anglo-Saxon … 41 and director of the East India Co. Apart from Martin's mansion and another, Wivenhoe Park, built in the north west …
A History of the County of Oxford
… extra-parochial areas of Godstow, Cutteslowe, King's Weir, and Pixey Mead were incorporated in the later 19th … and North Oxford. The extra-parochial areas of King's Weir (0.09 a.) and Pixey Mead (51 a.), which was then … manor by 1086, 34 and remained independent of St. Peter's and of Oxford for all but ecclesiastical purposes. The …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… wapentake of Ryedale, N. riding of York, 4 miles (E. by S.) from Helmsley; containing 337 inhabitants. It comprises … WOMBOURN ( St. Benedict), a parish, in the union, and S. division of the hundred, of Seisdon, S. division of the county of Stafford, 4 miles (S. W. by S.) …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… among the more notorious entertainments, and the county's last baiting was reputedly at the 1833 wake. 56 As late as … races and athletic competitions were held south of Pain's Lane in the mid to late 19th century during the wakes, 58 … and thereafter at the other end of Oakengates in Owen's field. There were four fairs in 1850, and an annual funfair …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… by the Inferior Oolite, with small deposits of fuller's earth and the Great Oolite on Bown hill. 4 The main route … converted to make cottages, one of which included a potter's workshop. South of Frogmarsh, on the lane called Convent … the 1860s incorporating an earlier farm-house called Bird's Hill Farm, 29 and the 18th-century Chester Hill House; the …