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A History of the County of Oxford
… to his friend George Clarke (d. 1736), fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Clarke devised it to the college, which failed to exercise its right at the first … in 1761, and the bishop presented by lapse. 53 The college presented in 1858, 54 but it sold its share of the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… were Paternoster ( c. 120 a.), Jackson's ( c. 50 a.) and College ( c. 55 a.) farms. In the north-east quarter of the … suited. After the Weston family sold its estate to Exeter College in 1739 75 there were almost no owner-occupiers in … although in 1843 Abraham Miles was reported to Merton College as a 'slovenly' farmer the college renewed his lease …
A History of the County of Oxford
… west of the junction of Rutten Lane and Cassington Road, College Mead west of the north end of Little Lane, and Mead … 320-2. Copy in Bodl. 1562 d 23. Thomas was tutor at Eton College to George Spencer- Churchill (d. 1857), later duke of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of cottages, including a block of seven known as the College standing on manorial waste south of Cassington Lane, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the estate, known thereafter as Jackson's farm, to Merton College, Oxford, to provide four scholarships. The farmhouse … central staircase. The house was sold in 1965. In 1895 the college bought Hill farm, whose land adjoined Jackson's farm, … Appleton property until 1867, when it was bought by Exeter College, Oxford. 4 The Southby farmhouse, later called Exeter …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… John Scott, of Dryhope; Sir Gideon Murray, senator of the College of Justice by the title of Lord Elibank; Dr. John …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… The tithes have been commuted for 403, payable to Trinity College, Cambridge. A chapel of ease was built in 1839, by …
A History of the County of Oxford
… W. J. Lenthall's estate (estimated at 315 a.), from Wadham College's Yelford farm (160 a.), and from another 80 a. in … and the 19th there was a sustained connexion with Jesus College, of which several rectors were fellows and two were … W. J. Lenthall, patron 1783-1855, had been educated at the college. 41 Yelford was served by curates, not always local. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… comprised 2 yardlands 22 and the Edwards (later Wadham College) estate c. 5 yardlands; 23 thus unless the Hastings … excluded much of the open-field land, certainly the college estate, which by then was regarded as part of … manor was said to contain only 24 a., 25 but Wadham College's estate in 1649 comprised 162 estimated acres, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… worked from the only other farmhouse in the village (later College Farm) 65 both the house and attached estate were … had been restored. 90 By then the village street south of College Farm had been realigned slightly to the west, perhaps … (Yelford Manor), a large 19th-century stone farmhouse (College Farm), 1 and a few modern houses. In the 1920s …