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A History of the County of Oxford
… to Downs Road and smaller transfers from Hailey and South Leigh were made in the north and north-east. 31 Population In …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to the 1890s they were managed by his successor Arthur Lea Leigh. 289 Until the advent of the railway the need to haul …
A History of the County of Oxford
… c. 1166; at that date Wolvercote, Yarnton, and North Leigh seem to have had an interest in it. 43 Later evidence …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Francis. 79 Earl Ducie sold the estate in 1846 to William Leigh, who made Woodchester a centre of Roman Catholicism. Leigh died in 1873 and was succeeded by his son William, who … year when the estate passed to another son Henry Vincent Leigh who sold it in 1922 to J. H. Tooley. 80 Part of the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… the parish dates from the purchase of the manor by William Leigh, a convert to catholicism. Leigh brought Passionist fathers to Northfield House, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 67 A Crown lease of 1609 seems to have passed to Thomas Leigh of Shipton-on-Cher-well, who in 1610 sold the house 68 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 300, with a glebe-house; patron and impropriator, Lord Leigh. The tithes have been commuted for land under an act of … was erected in 1792, at the sole expense of the Hon. Mary Leigh, and was enlarged and beautified in 1843, at a cost of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the royal forest of Wychwood and some, notably North Leigh, had the dispersed settlement pattern typical of forest … inclosure, chiefly for sheep farming, at Cogges and South Leigh in the west and Begbroke, Water Eaton, and Yarnton in … include those of Stanton Harcourt, North and South Leigh, and Kidlington; Freeland church was a centre of high …