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Henley: Communications
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
Henley: Henley and Fillets Manors
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… grants to royal servants, royal relatives and other great lords continued into the later Middle Ages, long after Henley … the town guild, 11 and although from the 17th century most lords were resident, from 1590 to 1786 they generally leased … arable, 300 a. of pasture, 60 a. of meadow, and 200 a. of wood, together with seven houses probably at Northfield End, …
Henley: Local Government
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… though this was an informal arrangement: the town's lords granted no liberties by charter, nor did they provide a … 1880s, when the reformed corporation opened its Lambridge Wood sewage plant. 12 The Makins recreation ground was …
Henley: Origin and Development of the Town
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… Badgemore, Bix and the Rotherfields were granted to local lords. 4 Presumably this reflected the importance of the … the usefulness of the riverside meadows and of the upland wood-pasture which gave Henley its name. 5 Isolated pottery … leased for 13 s. 4 d. a 'parcel of void or waste ground or wood wharf' between Friday Street and the bridge, which …
Henley: Outlying Estates and Country Houses
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… until shortly before 1971 when, with 120 a. of surrounding wood and parkland, it was converted into a golf course. 17 … Park Golf Club was established in the surrounding wood and parkland in 1971, landscaped by the golf architect … 'woods, coppices, and woody grounds' held with Hales wood and other neighbouring woodland, which had earlier …
Henley: Outlying Farms and Agriculture
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… the balance between cereal production, animal grazing and wood cutting varied according to wider economic conditions. … 14 and probably included at least part of Lambridge Wood. Bensington manor had a large demesne, 61 tenants, and … 7 Henley park was seldom visited by its absentee lords, and by the 1290s seems to have been used mainly as a …
Henley: Outlying Settlement
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… Greys boundary in the western part of Lambridge Wood (SU 733841), 7 and some Romano-British pottery, daub and … under a wooded ridge (presumably that of Lambridge Wood) to a site closer to the river. 10 The other main area … and barns west of Lambridge Farm survive as Lambridge Wood Cottage and Lambridge Wood Farm. 17 A handful of …
Henley: Religious History
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… minister, reportedly preached regularly at Harpsden Wood, where he, too, is alleged to have narrowly escaped … Econ. Spread of Rural Lollardy', in W. J. Sheils and D. Wood (eds), Voluntary Religion (Studies in Church Hist. 23, …
Henley: Social and Political History
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… lordly control. 1 On the whole relations between Henley's lords and townspeople seem to have remained amicable, a situation no doubt helped by the fact that the lords were mostly non-resident landholders on a large scale, … weaver was said to have persuaded a small boy to steal wood for him from Elmes' wharf overnight, and the corporation …
Henley: Town Buildings
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… change arose from the increasing use of coal rather than wood as a domestic fuel, transported presumably along the … and heavy rustication, executed probably in plaster or wood. 12 Stylistically it was of the 1680s or perhaps a … and Thames Commissioners and other bodies. 11 In 1753 Lords Macclesfield and Parker requested use of the guildhall …