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A History of the County of Oxford
… 'Castle Wall', 32 and a street, possibly the later Upper Brook Hill, leading to the same feature was mentioned c. … Lane and Union Street in the later 18th century, and in Brook Hill from the early 19th; Union Street began as the … they were lighted by gas from a gasworks built on Brook Hill in 1853. 30 In the later 19th century a few houses …
A History of the County of Oxford
… employer in 1851 with 43 men and 600 women, lived in Brook Hill on the later gas works site, but seems also to … Oxford Street from the 1950s, moving to a new factory in Brook Hill c. 1972. 97 Hensington works, the former Pullman's … no. 35. Cf. P.R.O., HO 107/1730; Boro. Mun. 143, s.v. Brook Hill encroachments; below, Old Woodstock, Econ. Boro. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 16 As late as 1750 a triangle of land at the junction of Brook Hill and Upper Brook Hill remained in Hensington, 17 suggesting that the … have followed the edge of the valley on the line of Upper Brook Hill and Harrison's Lane. The original east boundary …
A History of the County of Oxford
… as the shambles stalls and cottages in Common Acre and Brook Hill; by 1828 the traditional reserved rents were only … 1750s, 24 on the later Union Street from the 1760s, and at Brook Hill in the early 19th century. 25 The house later the … and cleansed the river, the ditches, and the corporation brook; 52 the last, also called the back brook, was the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… A distribution to the poor of corn from Woolaston Grange was said to have been made from the time of the … Earl of Worcester, obtained a lease of two-thirds of the Grange and defended apparently with success an action by the … widow Anne and the tenants of the other onethird of the Grange, about payment of corn-rents, but the dole to the poor …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… worth £20 with £2 and a load of good straw from Woolaston Grange in 1584, and £25 in 1650, 11 and in 1705 it was stated … by Tintern Abbey in 1302. The medieval chapel at Woolaston Grange has been mentioned above. 47 The church of ST. ANDREW …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… included a large proportion of rents from that manor. The grange of Woolaston, valued at £22, was worth about three times as much as any other Tintern Abbey grange. 11 The only woodland and meadow in the parish in 1086 … west side of the lane, Cone House field. Along the Cone brook were the open meadows of Mickla Mead, Thornwell, and …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… to Hewelsfield, and 54 a. of land north-east of the Cone brook were transferred to Alvington. At the same time the … of the parish boundary with Tidenham south of Ashwell Grange was straightened by the transfer of 113 a. to … by 1282, for that clearance can be identified as Ashwell Grange, consisting probably of all the land between the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… despite the field-name Work House Meadow near Woolaston Grange in 1813. 87 Allotments of 5 a. were made at inclosure …