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A History of the County of Oxford
… of Pixey mead was sold for the construction of the Oxford western bypass, completed in 1961. The gradual acquisition of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Rutten Lane divided to run each side of the green, the western arm being known as Little Lane, and there seems once … Jenkins and H. Quayle, Oxf., Worcester, and Wolverhampton Rly. passim. R. Brain et al. Three Nature/Historical Trails …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 9 Eynsham abbey held Yarnton rectory, which comprised the great tithes. 10 At the Dissolution the rectory passed to the … 1772 in Life of Ant. Wood, ed. W. Huddesford, 277 that 'a great part' of the house was 'pulled down about 16 years ago' …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Faldshope hill, but they are more remarkable for their great age than for the stateliness of their growth. There are … the ling and herring fisheries, which are carried on to a great extent, though to less advantage now than in former … the Watling-street, which passes through Clydesdale to the western extremity of the wall of Antoninus, and intersects …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… over the whole parish, which lies on a plateau at the western edge of the Marlborough Downs. A head stream of the … and 170 m. where the east corner takes in the lower, western, slopes of Windmill Hill. 30 Flat and well drained, … his estate at Yatesbury was divided between his mother's great-grandnephew Ralph Butler and her grandniece Joan, the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… and buttresses of the E. bay which conform exactly to the western and presumably earlier bays. The large window in the … of the eastern column with its base and the base of the western column are modern. The clear-storey is defined at the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… though much decayed, is still of respectable appearance. A great cattle-market is held on the fourth Wednesday in every … St. John the Baptist, to which Sir William Meynell was a great benefactor in 1268, and which had a revenue of 107. 3. … Holy Cross, the Holy Trinity, and the Virgin Mary. At its western end stands a building now used as a schoolroom, of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 17th century and the Groves of Woodstock or Maximilian Western of Cokethorpe in the 18th, were intermediaries. … Top. Oxon. c 118, f. 7 and v., mentioning both Mr. Smith's Great Linthorn and Mr. Hastings's Linthorn. Cf. also Wadham …
A History of the County of Oxford
… as defined in the 19th century. 76 The southern and western boundaries of the ancient parish were those of the … was suppressed shortly afterwards. 78 Yelford's north-western boundary with Ducklington, from a point on Aston's … 97 also associated with Elm Bank ditch on Ducklington's western boundary, which in 958 was Aeglesuuillan broce (the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in 1907. Yelford passed to a cousin Edmund Henry Lenthall, great grandson of John (d. 1783), who died in 1909 leaving …