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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… falls and the Chalk is soon overlain by Reading Beds and London Clays which give rise to a well-wooded area, at … (20). Later settlement developed on the Reading Beds and London Clay. Woodlands village, first recorded in 1244, is … and 2 ft. high, lay on the crest of a gentle S. slope of London Clay, about 140 ft. above O.D. It had no ditch and the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… from Steyning; containing 378 inhabitants. The road from London to Brighton, by way of Horsham, runs through the … 8 miles (N. N. W.) from Oxford, and 62 (W. N. W.) from London; containing 1412 inhabitants. This town is of Saxon …
A History of the County of Sussex
… was his son Jacob 60 (fl. 1680). 61 In 1693 Walter West, a London merchant, sold the manor to Thomas Dennett 62 (d. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Gardner, were noted for the best homebrewed beer between London and Birmingham. 7 By then no. 32 seems to have been … tenant in the 1720s. 87 In 1727 John Morse (d. 1737), a London goldsmith, 88 bought the house and in 1737 gave it to … Watsons in 1743 and was sold in 1772 to Thomas Hanks, a London innkeeper. 5 The Kerwoods and Watsons were licensed …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1617 gave £12 a year, payable by the Skinners' Company of London, to be divided equally between the grammar school, a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… sermons to the corporation. 67 In 1617 Thomas Fletcher of London left £4 a year for five sermons and £4 a year to be … are a brass to Richard Bailly, citizen and haberdasher of London and chapman of Woodstock (d. 1461), and a stone tablet …
A History of the County of Oxford
… roofs of shallower pitch. There is little sign that London pattern books influenced local builders: most fronts …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Bailly (d. 1461), chapman of Woodstock and haberdasher of London, and Robert Austen, variously called chapman and … control of Woodstock manor, had commercial interests in London, Bristol, Gloucester, Hereford, Oxford, and Aylesbury, … Cornbury, esquire, acquired the Bull inn. 6 John Exnyng, a London grocer and staple merchant, acquired some of the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… chamber. 87 By will of 1585 Richard Cornwell, a London skinner born in Woodstock, left £ 300 to provide and … of a larger charity payable by the Skinners' Company of London. 93 Other early endowments seem to have been lost, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the Oxford-Stratford road was relatively unimportant, the London-Worcester road passed 2 miles to the north, and the … the earliest Oxfordshire turnpike trust, taking over the London-Oxford road at Stoken-church in 1718, also adopted the … run by the landlord of the Bear inn. 50 A stage wagon to London was in operation by 1773, 51 and in the late 18th …