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A History of the County of Oxford
… Introduction WOLVERCOTE, an ancient parish lying on the north-west of the city and liberty of Oxford, c. 2 ½ … (0.09 a.) and Pixey Mead (51 a.), which was then common to Yarnton and Begbroke, lay north of Wolvercote. To the east … by the Thames Conservancy and the Thames Valley Drainage Commissioners in 1884 and 1885. The road to Wytham crossed …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wombridge Churches CHURCHES. During the Middle Ages St. Leonard's priory presumably served the … and afterwards the benefice (if there was one) seems to have been simply a donative and outside the bishop's … c. £50 a year between 1864 and 1867 by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners from £1,000 of subscriptions and grants. In …
Alumni Oxonienses
… college, New England, 1642 (its first graduate), said to be S.T.D.; a minister in Salisbury, and at Newbury, Berks, … for nonconformity, chaplain to Charles II., silenced by the act of conformity; died at Inglefield, Berks, 1 Nov., … (L.P.), Oct., 1656-8, rumper 1659, 1660; one of the commissioners on trial of the king, but did not act; his will …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Mary) WOODCHESTER ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Stroud, hundred of Longtree, E. division of the … Stroud; containing 908 inhabitants. This place is supposed to derive its name from its occupying the site of a Roman … at 6. 10., and returned under the 5th of Anne at 40. The commissioners of the inclosure allotted 228 a. 2 r. 10 p. to …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… south of Newmarket, 8 a town established c. 1200 astride the road forming the parish boundary between Woodditton and … All Saints was created as a chapelry of Woodditton by 1336 to serve the Cambridgeshire part of the town; 11 by the 18th … a thousand shreds and patches'. 14 In 1815 the inclosure commissioners added the detached parts of Newmarket All …
The Environs of London
… Quantity of land. Soil. This place was so called from the ford in the wood, where Woodford-bridge now is. It lies … loam. Land-tax. This parish pays the sum of 374l. 12s. to the land-tax, which is at the rate of about one shilling … It is valued, in the King's books, at 11l. 12s. 1d. The commissioners appointed to inquire into the state of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Woodford WOODFORD The ancient parish of Woodford lies between Salisbury and … and on the west by the old turnpike road from Salisbury to Devizes along the top of the down. 1 The parish includes … until 1869, when it was transferred to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, 31 who sold it in 1920. The manor, with about …
A History of the County of Essex
… Woodford Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. The wealth of woodland in Woodford long determined the … the number of ploughs owned by manorial tenants had fallen to seven. The 26 a. of meadow by the river accounts for the … at Woodford had been inclosed. 70 In 1856 and 1862 the Commissioners of Woods and Forests sold the Crown's forest …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Buildings Buildings Woodstock: Key to Buildings Section Scale 1:3,348 (approx. 19 in. to 1 mile). Quitrents imposed on the town's original burgages survived until the 1930s. They … Street. The site was altered c. 1780 when the turnpike commissioners levelled and widened Hollow Way. 45 In 1784-5 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Church Church. The church, of which the south doorway is of the 12th … reconsecrated in 1336 the bishop's licence was granted not to the rector but to the vill. 36 In 1445 the leading … was ignored when the house was conveyed to the Church Commissioners by the Official Trustees of Charitable Lands. …