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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… for a short time, and was present at the celebration of a horse-race. The township comprises 3705 acres, chiefly arable … half in breadth, and is bounded on the east partly by the sea; the soil is generally fertile, and the grounds about … village, situated on a fertile plain within a mile of the sea, consists of some well-built houses and numerous …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… Mounds, two, 1 m. S.E. of the church, and within the sea-wall near the head of a creek. They are of irregular …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… remarkable as being generally manufactured of old nails of horse-shoes, formed into bars. Queen Elizabeth, among other …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… rubble internally, early 19th-century. (17) Former Horse and Jockey Inn, coursed rubble walls with much …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Alderman John Tasker (d. 1741) the house was the White Horse. 9 It was still so called in the 1780s but was the … acquired c. 1814 by Morrell's Oxford brewery and was the Horse and Jockey, later Horse and Groom, closed by the 1860s. 17 The inn was probably …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Probably much of Oxford Street was occupied by beast and horse markets mentioned later: a swine market mentioned in 1468-9 has not been located. 43 Horse Fair was at the southern entrance to the town in the … of a boundary dispute, it was described as 'a place called Horse Fair between the town of Woodstock and the place of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of Rectory Lane, once Townsend pool and the site of the horse fair, was deemed to be in Hensington, and the borough … but by August there was only a troop of the queen's horse; the garrison was reinforced late in 1643, but most of … resident gentry, partly because of the introduction of horse racing but perhaps also because of its 'most pleasant …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 39 In 1768 it was agreed to move the stocks and pillory to Horse Fair, 40 at that date the eastern section of High …