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A History of the County of Oxford
… representative of the inhabitants and lacked the funds or the will to meet the growing demands of local government. … begun in 1705. Thereafter many townsmen depended directly or indirectly on the palace and estate. Tourism became … Maps 26, f. 50v., reproduced in D. Green, Blenheim Palace, pl. 32. N. & Q. 2nd ser. x. 444-5; J. Cheny, Hist. List of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in 1584 and 1586, were presumably nominees of Knollys or Lee. 98 Whitton's election perhaps owed less to his park … Henry Wise. 53 Non-resident freemen qualified by patrimony or apprenticeship were also registered in large numbers, and … 1713 there were 337 votes, implying an electorate of 170 or more. 54 Although both sides had employed similar tactics, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… earlier site; it was known as the United Free Methodist or the Olivet chapel. 81 In 1881 a resident minister was … Circular Letter of Oxon. Baptist Assoc. (1887), 20-1; New Rd. Chapel Monthly Visitor, pp. 15, 160; H. Paintin, New Rd. Chapel Sunday Sch. Soc. 1813-1913, 38. F. Townsend, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… North Porch and the South Aisle and arcade were added or rebuilt. Drawings dated 1864 of the N. and S. sides of the … N. end of six doubletransomed lights, show that it was, or then became, a house of some pretension. It was acquired … the cloister, none of the walls now standing more than 8 or 10 ft. high, except at the W. end of the church. A view in …
A History of the County of Somerset
… River in 1940. Some of the southern boundary is a lane or footpath. 6 In 1842 the parish measured 1,735 a. which … century into four fields: East, South, West, and Crany or Crandon. They were very small, possibly including the area … by 1997 when they were deregistered. .PB 7 Ekwall, Eng. Pl.-Names, 507. This article was completed in 2000. M. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… Chancel, with a window in the N. wall, and the restored or re-built N. arcade of the Nave. Near the end of the 13th … the North Aisle was re-built and widened at the same time or shortly after. The W. wall of the N. aisle is dated 1736 … from short grouped shafts with bell-capitals and foliated or head-corbels; above the arch is a relieving-arch finishing …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… The walls of the old building are generally of rubble or chalk, rendered in cement or rough-cast; the dressings are of Reigate stone and the … the moulded jambs and two-centred head of the late 14th or 15th-century W. doorway. The South Transept (17 ft. by 16 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Record Cards). They may have been from either this parish or Hardingstone. A coin of Constantine I (AD 30637) was … map of archaeological sites ( Archaeologia 35 (1853), pl. 16; NDC A28). a(4) Ring Ditches and Enclosures ( c. SP … map of archaeological sites ( Archaeologia 35 (1853), pl. 16) though no indication of its nature is given (NDC …
A History of the County of Oxford
… communities, looking to small markets at Deddington or Woodstock. Weaving and malting at Deddington were on a … fields until parliamentary inclosure in the 18th century or early 19th; groupings of two open fields later becoming … and Great Tew and smaller parks of the 18th century or earlier at North and Middle Aston, Glympton, Ledwell, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Warwickshire. Osric, either repairing the Roman fortress, or erecting another in this city, which by the Saxons was … to preside over the ecclesiastical affairs of Huiccia or Wiccia. From the death of Osric nothing is recorded, either of the province or of the city, till the time of Offa, in one of whose …