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A History of the County of Oxford
… of the then lord, Sir William Spencer, presented. Oxford University presented in 1646 on the grounds that Sir … George Clarke (d. 1736), fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Clarke devised it to the college, which failed to … K. F. Brown, gave the advowson to St. Catherine's College, Oxford. In 1984 St. Catherine's transferred the advowson to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of Duke's Cut, linking the Thames near Oxey mead to the Oxford canal, 1 s. was collected from every barge for the use … years ago'. 39 Oxey mead, traversed in the 1930s by the Oxford northern bypass, was sold in 1939 to Oxfordshire … Part of Pixey mead was sold for the construction of the Oxford western bypass, completed in 1961. The gradual …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Introduction YARNTON lies 4 miles (6.5 km.) north-west of Oxford, on the north bank of the river Thames. 41 The river … south formed the eastern boundary until 1788-9, when the Oxford canal took much of the stream bed. 42 Field boundaries … the area known as the Marshes, and a small detached close, Oxford Close (3 a.), lay north-east of the junction of Sandy …
A History of the County of Oxford
… it was always among the highest. 27 Yarnton's proximity to Oxford on the Woodstock road presumably accounts for the very … parish paid a subscription to the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford. Smallpox sufferers were taken to isolation hospitals …
A History of the County of Oxford
… it in 1936 to George Kolkhorst, Reader in Spanish at Oxford University. On his death in 1959 it was bought by the … in the south-east of the parish, immediately west of the Oxford-Woodstock road, was, like Paternoster farm, part of … known thereafter as Jackson's farm, to Merton College, Oxford, to provide four scholarships. The farmhouse was built …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 40 In 1828 John Fordred, a Wesleyan minister from Oxford, applied for a licence for John Preedy's cottage in … mention has been found. 43 In the 1830s Henry Bulteel of Oxford preached at Baptist meetings in Yarnton. Although only … 44 From the mid 19th century nonconformist preachers from Oxford were attracting a sufficient following to affect …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… 6 front range and a rear wing. Part of The Northampton Herald for 1838, pasted in a cupboard, may indicate the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in the union of Witney, hundred of Bampton, county of Oxford, 3 miles (S.) from Witney; containing 16 inhabitants. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the Lenthalls from the later 17th century were almost all Oxford graduates and few, if any, were resident. Henry …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of Wadham's nominal lessees, such as Mary Mountford of Oxford in the later 17th century and the Groves of Woodstock … another sale at Yelford included 68 dairy cattle and 100 Oxford Down ewes. 81 Despite the enlarged arable area there …