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A History of the County of Oxford
… baptisms rose to 48 a year, probably in part reflecting national population trends. 36 In 1801 there were 1,322 … almshouses in the 1790s, and providing land for the National schools of 1854. Their influence was sometimes … Loyal Woodstock Volunteers in 1803, ostensibly in aid of national defence, perhaps also reflected anxiety over local …
A History of the County of Oxford
… addresses expressed conventional reactions to royal and national events, but in 1850 the council was particularly … hostile to the pope's appointment of an archbishop of Westminster. 46 Divisions over parliamentary representation … or marsh called le Pool, comprising c. 17 a. on the south bank of the river Glyme; the fee farm rent of 2 13 s. 4 d. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… forest in the Anglo-Saxon period. The site, on the north bank of the Glyme opposite Blenheim Palace, was occupied … applied to a small hamlet outside the park on the north bank of the Glyme; the hamlet, later Old Woodstock, lay in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… attached. Here are places of worship for Wesleyans; and a national school. Woolbeding WOOLBEDING, a parish, in the … goats were kept. Here is a branch of the North of England bank; a public subscription library is supported, and a … Tuesday in May a general fair takes place on Weetwood Bank, a mile and a half distant from the town. The powers of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… E. of the Abbey is a rectangle of 2 acres bounded by a bank and a broad ditch crossed by a causeway on the W. In the … see Monument 7). In the meadow 250 yds. W. of the Abbey a bank, some 27 ft. across and 1 ft. above a ditch on the W., …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… only the moiety that could be fished from the east bank of the river belonged to Woolaston. In 1086 four …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… year was paid regularly to a master in the years before a National school was founded at Gumstalls c. 1818. 2 The National school was supported from subscriptions but also … the Clayton charity 3 and in 1846 a grant of £30 from the National Society. 4 In 1818 there were 120 children, 5 but in …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Severn forms the southern boundary, the pills along its bank being much silted and the bank suffering erosion. 6 On the south-west the boundary … of early-19th-century cottages and a house which was the National school from c. 1818 to 1862, 22 there was a house by …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… and Whitewalls, Abbey Passage or Ferry farm on the east bank of the River Wye opposite Tintern Abbey, and Brockweir …
A History of the County of Somerset
… the 20th century 5 and remains open. NOTABLE RESIDENTS AND NATIONAL EVENTS The Hody family originated as unfree tenants …