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A History of the County of Oxford
… and Curbridge were added in 1932, bringing the town's area to 1,306 a., and intakes from Curbridge (47 a.) and … the river and surrounded by low-lying alluvium. The river's surviving eastern branch formed the town's and parish's … said to be 'in' or 'opposite' the shambles or butcher row, presumably replaced temporary stalls or booths, and may …
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, … from three to four cottages before 1761, were rebuilt as a row of six in 1795. 43 Sometimes division followed from …
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 … one external tap in 1945, 266 probably typical of the row. Health Provision Witney had surgeons and apothecaries …
A History of the County of Oxford
… east, and almost certainly it long predated the borough's foundation. 1 The ecclesiastical parish, conterminous with … probably an error, arising possibly from the parish church's location just outside the borough boundary within Curbridge … was among the wealthiest in the bishop of Winchester's gift, attracting influential non-residents whose prolonged …
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 … brackets to a deep eaves above which there was formerly a row of large attic dormers. 40 A later brick wing, now a …
Survey of London
… Woburn Walk and Duke's Road LXXIIIWOBURN WALK AND DUKE'S ROAD (formerly Woburn Buildings) From the east side of … as Woburn Buildings, but the northern is shown as Duke's Row on Cary's Map (1818) and has since been named Duke's …
A Dictionary of London
… of later time called Wolfes Lane, but now out of use (S. 42). "Wolsieslane "lay between the tenement of Sir John de … part stopped up and built on by the Chamberlain of London (S. 42). First mention: "Wolsiesgate," 1300 (Lib. Horn. fol. … maps. Site has been rebuilt. Woodruffe Lane See Cooper's Row. Woodwharf .On the Thames, in Castle Baynard Ward. …
Alumni Oxonienses
… Woodall, William 1600. See Woodhall. Woodarde, Nicholas s. Christopher, of Mechlen in Flanders, gent. Magdalen Hall, … New England, 1642 (its first graduate), said to be S.T.D.; a minister in Salisbury, and at Newbury, Berks, … 18, B.A. 1691, M.A. 1694; this or the next man vicar of Granby, Notts, 1704, rector of Knipton, co. Leicester, 1715, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… and Exning (Suff.). 9 Until the 19th century Woodditton's bounds were beaten along the frontages on the south side of … NNE. by a fence and the lanes which became Green Road, Granby Street, and Vicarage Road, WNW. along Old Station Road … demolished before 1748 1 and in 1885 there survived only a row of three, rebuilt as a pair by 1901; Old Park House on …
The Environs of London
… free from the payment of the same, when they came to God's board, might say a Pater noster and an Ave for his soul, … Alderman of London, 1625; Anne, wife of Thomas Holbech, S. T. P. daughter of Patrick Melvill, 1666; Richard Bayly, … observed. He resided in an old house at Woodford-row, called Hearts, built anno 1617, by Sir Humphrey …