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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Steyning; containing 378 inhabitants. The road from London to Brighton, by way of Horsham, runs through the parish. The … strong clay, and the surface hilly. The living is annexed to the rectory of Brown-Candover: the tithes have been … the churchyard was consecrated in 1838, previously to which the parishioners buried at Candover. Woodmancott …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Map of 1778 suggest an early extension of the village to the E., which had apparently contracted by the mid 16th … continuation with the aisle wall (LAO, Archdeacon Bonney, private register). Ten years later the chancel roof was said … already in fragments in 1808 (LAO, Archdeacon Bonney, private register). Image stand: against E. respond of S. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Buildings Buildings Woodstock: Key to Buildings Section Scale 1:3,348 (approx. 19 in. to 1 … 8 Co. The building was extended in 1857 and turned into a private house in 1871-2. 57 Nos. 10-12 formed a single … 1864), who seems to have lived at no. 16. 85 No. 14 was a private school under the name of Hope House in the 1840s and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… reconsecrated in 1336 the bishop's licence was granted not to the rector but to the vill. 36 In 1445 the leading … of Charitable Lands. 61 In 1982 the house was sold to a private owner and renamed the Bishop's House; a new rectory … local clergy or fellows of Oxford colleges. William Laud, president of St. John's College and later archbishop of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the town prospered, acquiring a fair in addition to its original market, 66 but it remained a small community … the George (later the Marlborough Arms), belonged in 1279 to one of the leading townsmen, Adam Bennet. 69 Property was … and measures, and the same court checked and sealed private measures. 38 In the 1670s the corporation's new …
A History of the County of Oxford
… lacked the means of education'. 85 Continued failure to respond to national reforms, however, provoked a comment … a former schoolhouse was rebuilt by the corporation as a private house c. 1602, incorporating part of no. 12 Oxford … and school c. 1850. The house, long sub-let as a girls' private school, was restored with dilapidations money from …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Local government Local government BOROUGH TO 1886.When New Woodstock was incorporated in 1453 75 the … neglect of the payment arrears were claimed in 1779 by a private owner, Thomas Wyld, and 35 years' arrears were paid … activity ceased, several public services were provided by private concerns, others were supervised by the vestry or the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… representation Woodstock sent two representatives to parliament in 1302 and two others in 1305; 86 all seem to have been residents and two were members of the prominent … as in mayoral elections, extended beyond the council to the freeman body. 89 An election restricted to councillors …
A History of the County of Oxford
… nonconformist was reported in 1676 Metcalfe was alleged to be continuing a conventicle in 1678. 56 In the 1680s many Woodstock people were said to be attending Anabaptist meetings at Combe. 57 In 1737 … until the Second World War, and was converted into a private house in 1957. It was built in stone on an octagonal …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… through areas on Reading Beds and London Clay, well-wooded to the E. around Woodstreet, to the river terraces along the Frome; the N. part, beyond … probably owe most of their form to the garden of a private house which succeeded the monastery and was burned …