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A History of the County of Oxford
… clothes for the schoolchildren. 56 From 1817 a room in the new parish clerk's house at the north-west end of Church Lane … materials, and giving each child a full suit of clothes on New Year's Day. The only assistance was £3 from the Fletcher … operated sporadically in the later 19th century. 62 A new school with accommodation for 53 children was built in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 92 The increase was allegedly the consequence of building new cottages for poor families, who then 'over-filled the new cottages also'. 93 The temporary presence of railway … when hedges were grubbed up and ditches filled in. 6 When new cottages were wanted in the later 18th century and in the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… remained quit of shire and hundred after 1281, under its new owner Rewley abbey. 18 The last known meeting of the … Lane, south-east of Southby's, later Exeter, Farm. 31 New parish cottages were built in 1795 and 1806. 32 In 1839 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… as a service wing at the north-west corner of the new house, which was an imposing structure of coursed rubble limestone and ashlar, some of it re-used. The new house was a rectangular block of double-pile plan, with … century the parlour was extended and remodelled, and a new staircase installed, the base of the old stair turret …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… of Yarrow, county of Selkirk, 5 miles (W. by N.) from the town of Selkirk; containing 46 inhabitants. This village, … of the male population are engaged. The nearest market-town is Lerwick, the capital of Shetland, distant, due south … insufficient for the accommodation of the parishioners. A new church was therefore erected in 1837, well adapted for a …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… ballast. Enclosure was in 1778 (NRO, plan 57). In 1881 a new cemetery and mortuary chapel for both Yarwell and … 105 but also 84 for the pews and flooring, and 1.11.6 for new gates and the repair of the old one. A plan by Sanderson … with drawings for the proposed alterations and for the new roof (Figs. 14, 220). The work was generally carried out …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… it was turnpiked in 1743; 34 in 17912 it was moved to a new course on lower land c. 200 m. further north. 35 The … at the junction of the Street and Back Lane was called Town's End. 47 It is probable that in the earlier Middle Ages … two manors, one east and one west of the village, and that new buildings were erected on each. 48 The farmsteads on the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… the West Tower was added probably in the same century. The new church of St. Mary was built in 1855, when the old church …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… acres, was inclosed in 1840. The chapel, rebuilt on a new site in 1840, and dedicated to the Trinity, is a neat … entirely from land allotted at the inclosure in 1770: a new glebe-house was erected by the present incumbent in 1833. … John the Baptist) YEOVIL ( St. John the Baptist), a market-town and parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of c. 1870. The lectern was given in the 1950s and a new pulpit in 1965. Until 1965 the church was lit by candles …