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A History of the County of Oxford
… borough Roman catholicism ROMAN CATHOLICISM Despite hints of religious conservatism in the mid 16th century, there is … of a strong recusant tradition in the town either then or later. 1 In 1549 Oxfordshire gentry met at Witney to … 12 A Roman Catholic church, dedicated to St Hugh of Lincoln, was established about 1930 in the former Anglican …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Andrew) WOLLASTON ( St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Chepstow, hundred of Westbury, W. division of the county … This parish is divided into the North and South sides or divisions, embracing 10,380 acres, whereof 2036 are … the basement of some edifice, probably connected with the monastery of Wulfruna, the exact site of which has not been …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… WOLLATON, OLAVESTON. In Olaveston (through corruption of speech now called Wollaton) there was of William Peverells … a carucat and an half. The Land was then for twelve oxen, or twelve bovats. 1 There afterwards Warner the man of … of Sir Richard Rothwell, of Stapleford, in the County of Lincoln, Bart. by whom he had four sons, Francis, Thomas, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… estate at Cutteslowe was administered independently of Wolvercote from the Middle Ages; its economic organization … South, East, and West. 93 The arrangement of the fields or furlongs for crop rotation before the 19th century is not … comprised c. 70 a. in closes on or near the site of the monastery, 53 a. of Lammas land in Pixey mead, and 160 a. on …
A History of the County of Oxford
… WOLVERCOTE, an ancient parish lying on the north-west of the city and liberty of Oxford, c. 2 ½ miles north of the … Eaton in 1588. 35 The treatment, from the 16th century or earlier, of the demesne land and site of Godstow abbey as … Cutteslowe derived from an early grant to St. Frideswide's minster in Oxford of 2 hides of a 5-hide estate there. A …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Roger d'Ivri held WOLVERCOTE in 1086, and Godfrey held of him. 61 There is no further record of the under-tenancy, … Two hides at CUTTESLOWE were confirmed to St. Frideswide's minster in Oxford in 1004, and in 1086 Siward held the estate … 81 The dukes retained it until 1811 when it was sold to or exchanged with Francis Gregory (d. 1841), formerly of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… - Woodbury Wombleton WOMBLETON, a township, in the parish of Kirkdale, union of Helmsley, wapentake of Ryedale, N. … named Shuttleworth, now occupied as a farmhouse. Wonastow, or Weonastow (St. Wonnow) WONASTOW, or Weonastow ( St. … the site of a noble palace that belonged to the bishops of Lincoln. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wombridge Growth of settlement GROWTH OF SETTLEMENT. The original endowment of … were probably built by the occupiers and were detached or semi-detached. There was some order to the western part of … in Wrockwardine Wood, one straggling along New Road and Lincoln Road and another at Trench. In the 20th century those …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… years. In 1539 James Leveson bought the reversion and fee of Abbot's leasehold lands from the Crown. 89 Leveson bought … of the priory, including the chancel, had fallen down or been demolished and the materials been employed in … the tithes were acquired from the Crown by the earl of Lincoln and Christopher Gowffe for a fee farm rent of £2 6 s. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… (O.S. 6 in. xlvii. S.E.) Ecclesiastical (1). Parish Church of St. Paul, in the village, has walls re-faced with modern … has been re-tooled and plastered; the capitals are re-cut, or modern; of the S. arcade only the W. respond and the … of Aylesbury, and chaplain to William Atwater, Bishop of Lincoln, 1519, figure of priest in processional vestments, …