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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Margaret) WOODHALL ( St. Margaret), a parish, in the union of Horncastle, S. division of the wapentake of Gartree, parts of Lindsey, county of … stands in the three parishes of Harthill, Treeton, and Wales, though the boundaries are undefined. Woodham WOODHAM, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… West Woodmancote WOODMANCOTE, a tything, in the parish of North Cerney, union of Winchcomb, hundred of Rapsgate, … with the history of that monarch: Henry here received Rhs, Prince of Wales, when in 1163 he came to do homage. Edmund of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… survived until the 1930s. They were listed in a survey of 1279 and as 'the king's rents' in 1468-9. 48 Later the … Brewery and was renamed the Jolly Farmers c. 1819 and the Prince of Wales c. 1853; it was closed as a public house by 1915. 8 The …
A History of the County of Oxford
… its original market, 66 but it remained a small community of tradesmen, craftsmen, and royal servants. Service in the … other names were derived from the building crafts of mason, carpenter, thatcher, and slater, the metal crafts … P.R.O., PROB 11/37, f. 134v.; Agrarian Hist. of Eng. and Wales, iv. 350; L. & P. Hen. VIII, passim; Cal. Pat. 154753, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was at Woodstock Park, which he visited regularly for love of Rosamund Clifford; he therefore provided land outside the … 13 of whom some took an interest in the town: in 1870 the prince of Wales visited the Oxon.' (Birm. Univ. Ph. D. thesis, 1981), …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woolaston Church CHURCH. The church of Woolaston was recorded in the foundation grant by Walter … 1131. 91 Following a dispute with Llanthony Priory, lords of Alvington manor, it was determined between 1146 and 1169 … 35. Cal. Papal Regs. i. 288. John Stacy (1431) and Robert Prince (1459): Hockaday Abs. ccccxvi. C 66/671 m. 14. C …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woolaston Introduction WOOLASTON WOOLASTON is a parish of scattered hamlets lying midway between Lydney and … shape, it rises from the River Severn to the high ground of Tidenham Chase. The account printed here relates to the … at the south end. The railway from Gloucester to South Wales, which passes through the parish, was opened in 1851 82 …
A History of the County of Somerset
… from a Saxon personal name, 5 lies on the northern slope of the Polden ridge near its western end. It is 6 km. … and became a private dwelling known as Globe House. 3 The Prince of Wales beerhouse on the road south of the village had probably …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… - Woore Woolminstone WOOLMINSTONE, a tything, in the union of Chard, hundred of Crewkerne, Western division of Somerset; … of the Mersey, the Cheshire hills, and the mountains of Wales. A large stone-quarry is wrought. The chapel, dedicated … in the gardens of Carlton Palace by George IV., when Prince Regent, for the entertainment of the allied …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Worcester - Wormsley Worcester WORCESTER, a city, a county of itself, having exclusive jurisdiction, and the head of a … time of Offa, in one of whose charters Uhtred, a Wiccian prince, is styled Regulus et Dux propri gentis Huicciorum … king at length advancing against him, drove him back into Wales, and retiring after his victory to Worcester, took up …