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A History of the County of Oxford
… the house was extended into a large artificial lake, and a new main driveway, with its own lodge, was made to Clanfield … been in that position by 1789. 89 Bampton House off Bushey Row, in its own grounds, is a substantial square house of the … among them Weald Manor Farm in 1884. 19 Within the town there was much rebuilding of artisans' and labourers' …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and in 1848 income was £15 of which £3 14 s. went to the town bread fund, the rest, after land tax, being added to the … manufactory'. 4 The interest was diverted to a proposed new workhouse in 1768 and towards medical expenses in 1784, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… were merged with Bampton Aston and Clanfield to form a new benefice of Bampton-with-Clanfield, part of a group … preceded as a religious focus by a site east of the later town at the Beam. Burials near the medieval chapel of St. … and 1849 totalled over £1,000. 74 In 1857 the vicar of the new benefice of Bampton Proper received the glebe of the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… manor had cow commons in Cottage close (9 a.), one of the new closes. 64 Cow leaze, between Bourton and Ham fields, was … much earlier Bampton was a relatively impoverished town of farmers and small traders, and may no longer have … Cottage on High Street and a nearby shop on Bushey Row, was established by 1861 when it employed 4 assistants …
A History of the County of Oxford
… terms'. 45 Thirty pupils were recorded in 1815, but after new fees of 21 s. entrance and 21 s. a quarter were … and building, financed by subscription, began in 1863; the new school was opened in 1864. 60 The building, of local … A new Church of England primary school built on the town's northern edge in 1961 had 260 children in 1970, when …
A History of the County of Oxford
… vicarage house), and much of the south-west part of the town into Weald, but leaving the church, Bampton Manor House, … when the older road to Lew and Witney was suppressed; a new road to Lew and Yelford via later Coalpit Farm was … lanes was established by the later Middle Ages. Bushey Row, formerly New Inn Lane from a 19th-century public house …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 33 In the 19th century the courts met usually at the New Inn and occasionally in Bampton Manor House off Broad … tools for emigrants, and from the 1850s to supervise the town hall; 57 from 1820, under the Vestries Act of 1819, a … 75 In 1837 the Poor Law Commissioners ordered a new assessment, and in the 1840s, with payments still in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… CASTLE. The castle, later Ham Court, 74 was built on the town's western edge by Aymer de Valence c. 1315, in which … William c. 1256, when he received oaks and beams for his new hall, 77 and presumably there was an earlier royal manor … way or claustrum. 58 It was derelict by 1381 when a new hall with a chamber at its west end was built by the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… (discussed above) that is all that can be found. In a town which has had several subsequent periods of considerable … or cheese room'. A deed of 1792 described the stables as 'new erected', and a deed of 1780 similarly described the … Such building was undertaken speculatively. Constitution Row on the Broughton Road, for example, was built in 1847 by …
A History of the County of Oxford
… payments should be replaced by a grant of rents in the town. 5 In 1824 the corporation was receiving 10 10 s. a year … unsafe: eventually the smaller block was abandoned and a new almshouse for 4 persons was acquired for 270, the gift of … and churchwardents in the general administration of the town charities, and to appoint 2 bridgemasters, overseers, or …