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A History of the County of Oxford
… rectory of St. Lawrence Jewry, London, in 1294, with some houses, and the bequest from William Burnel, Archdeacon of … were delegated to the Vice-Chancellor and heads of houses. It was found that a small part of the deficiency … 153 Farther north, lying behind the gardens of the houses facing St. Mary Magdalene was a long halftimbered …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
… for bacon-smoking. The walls retain pigeon-nests. c(19). Houses, forming range, immediately S.E. of (18). The E. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… north of Old Shifford. Lew village, Lower Haddon Farm, and houses along Weald Lane lie on clay, though most settlements, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Batherm. The town is pleasantly situated in a vale; the houses are irregularly built of stone, and amply supplied … the river Isis, on which are some convenient wharfs: the houses are neatly built, and the inhabitants are plentifully … of new building of stone." During the war between the houses of York and Lancaster, the neighbourhood was the scene …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the discovery of encased timber frames in some surviving houses suggests that timber construction was common in … below, 50 all began as small, timber-framed, three-bayed houses with open halls: Bell Cottage, the most archaic, … with 1½ yardland in the 18th century. 52 Most surviving houses are 17th-century or later, of local limestone rubble …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the Interregnum, when it was briefly acquired with the parsonage estate by Col. John Fielder, who seems not to have … Ecclesiastical Commissioners, was commuted in 1931. 76 No houses were provided under the vicarage ordination, … century two and probably all three vicars had acquired houses respectively north, east, and south of the churchyard, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 11 other tenants, including the miller and a smith, held houses with small amounts of land. Four cottagers, each with … for tithes, c. 293 a. for leasehold lands including the 'parsonage' or 'rectory' estate, and c. 230 a. for copyholds; … among them Hereford oxen grazed by the tenant of the 'parsonage' farm in the early 19th century. 71 Sheep remained …
A History of the County of Oxford
… population of over 500 and rather more than 100 houses. Estimates by 18th-century vicars implied a falling number of houses in the parish as a whole, 6 but the birth rate … to exceed the death rate, and by 1801 there were 215 houses in Bampton and Weald, 8 of them unoccupied, and 1,003 …