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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… property of Lord Berners, by whose family the manor has long been held. The living is a discharged rectory, … of St. Bartholomew at Ickburgh, was, with the village, long since demolished. Colwall (St. James) COLWALL ( St. … house here; the village is pleasantly situated under a long range of hills on the north bank of the Trent. The …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… The new line of road is more than four miles and a half long from Conway to Brynmor, where it joins the old Holyhead … riveted together, and having a parallel direction with the long axis of the tube. Thus, great rigidity would have been … a square shape, at the top and bottom. It was eighty feet long, four feet six inches deep, two feet eight inches wide; …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the rector to visit twice a year, and many rectors spent long periods at the rectory house, looking on it as a country … a bequest was made 'to the repairing of the old church of Long Combe', 28 but its status at that time is unknown and … Cottages. They were sold in 1926. A cottage east of the lane leading to the church was church property in the mid …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and size of farms fluctuated after inclosure, but the long-term trend was towards fewer, larger establishments … had opened a brickworks at the north-west end of Bolton's Lane 31 producing high-quality bricks, as used in the former … Busby, Higher Westfield Fm., and Mr. H. Busby, Myrtle Fm., Long Hanborough. Oxf. Times,, 15 Oct. 1982; local inf. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… woodland as late as the 13th century, and the forest for long played an important role in the lives of Combe people: … Oxford for horse and foot traffic lay along Frogwelldown Lane, which began east of Hanborough bridge and ran through … what by the mid 14th century earned Combe the epithet 'Long'. 35 If so, there was considerable rebuilding in Combe …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of Hurst. 7 Sotham sold the Grove in 1796 to James Long, who was succeeded on his death in 1833 by his grandson … lower block on the north was added in 1828 by James Long. 10 Ownership of the manor house carried with it an … to have been about half that amount. The farm passed for long with the manor house, and in 1606 was held by John …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the later Meeting House Farm, c. 500 yd. west of Bolton's Lane. Up to 200 people attended, mostly from Woodstock. 81 In … has been found. There was a Methodist meeting in Bolton's Lane, at the house later called Wedgehook, in the 1770s, … circuit. 86 The popularity of Wesleyan Methodism was for long periods unchallenged by the Established Church which …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… It lay at the S. extremity of a green some 600 yds. long which was evidently subjected to progressive … framed and plastered, with thatched roofs, consists of a long range end on to Swayne's Lane. It appears to have originated as 18th-century farm or …
Survey of London
… Sewers, and favoured a line from the southern end of Rose Lane to the northern end of Wheler Street. Thence it might … and a footpath to be kept open all night between Brick Lane and Commercial Street. This was therefore done. 69 It … keystones of stucco. The moulded imposts to the piers, the long-and-short quoins defining the angles, and the bold main …
The Church Records of St Andrew Hubbard, Eastcheap, c1450-c1570
… the Blessed Mary, St Leonard and all the saints for as long as it will serve there. 21. To William Halhead, citizen … 1 wax torch, price 6s. 8d., to serve and burn for as long as it lasts. 5. I leave to the fabric of the cathedral … Sir Richard Clyff, parson of St George's in Botolph Lane, and Ralph Clerk, tailor; and the said Sir Richard is to …