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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 3000 acres, the soil of which is a light loam. Here was a palace of the bishops of Salisbury, but no traces of it are …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… each a place of worship. In the parish was anciently a palace belonging to the bishops of Winchester. Woodhay, West …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… III. Henry VII. added considerably to the buildings of the palace, erecting the front and the principal gate-house. This … and Arms. During the civil war of the 17th century, the palace was besieged and much damaged, the furniture was sold, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Aug. 1678. Lond. Gaz. 6-9 June 1692; D. Green, Blenheim Palace, 253; Blenheim Mun., box 133, deed of 1718 giving …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to crenellate park wall: reproduced in D. Green, Blenheim Palace, pl. 91. Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. c 351, ff. 71-2. For the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… pre-dated the town: passage from the gate to the royal palace remained difficult, requiring long causeways. 92 Park … houses, was thought to be spoil from the demolished royal palace; some lintels, however, appear to be in situ, notably … Park Street, and no. 20 High Street, all built before the palace was slighted. Some 17th-century bay windows survive: …
A History of the County of Oxford
… noted that the townsmen were generally poor. 3 Even so the palace and park permanently benefited the town by providing … Malvern College and then government employees to Blenheim Palace, and an influx of middle-class refugees from London. … Country Fair, Mar. 1965, 47. Below, Blenheim, Blenheim Palace. e.g. B.L. Add. MS. 61468, ff. 1402. Inf. on trades …
A History of the County of Oxford
… plateau on the edge of the Glyme valley opposite the royal palace, was said to have been vacant when the town was … 700. In the early 18th century the building of Blenheim Palace introduced a large labour force and the town's … residence of a large labour force restoring Blenheim Palace; by 1851 the population was 1,262 and by 1881 only …
A History of the County of Oxford
… duke, who had employed between 80 and 100 servants in the palace and more on the estate and had dispensed … of over 200 houses. The duke planned to supply both the palace and town from a single engine at Woodstock mill, but … in 1856. 16 In 1861, after a serious fire at Blenheim Palace, the duke revised and expanded the system, providing a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… The site, on the north bank of the Glyme opposite Blenheim Palace, was occupied until the early 18th century by a royal …