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A History of the County of Shropshire
… intercommoned, for there are some long unbroken lengths. On the Clee plateau the land rises to 235 m. in the east, and on Pye brook in the west falls to 130 m. 79 The higher parts … 43, bdle. 8, deed. Ibid. parcel 36, bdle. 10, deed; below, Shipton, manors (Moorhouse). Staffs. R.O., D.(W.) 1788, will; …
A History of the County of Oxford
… franchises' the mayor and his party proceeded by boat and on foot. The route followed seems to have related originally … the first time the chamberlains accounted for money spent on it; 15 it is possible that an ancient custom was put on a … Magdalen Bridge the mayor and his party followed the river Cherwell to the county boundary, Shire Lake stream, and along …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… or Cold Aston), and Notgrove. 3 Also in the hundred were Shipton (as five separate estates), Hampen (as two estates), … was named was possibly in the valley of the river Coln on the east boundary of Withington, where a pre-Conquest … and Whittington became separate parishes, while the Shipton estates formed two parishes called Shipton Oliffe and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… NORTON The large, mainly rural parish of Brize Norton lies on the northern edge of the Thames valley, about 3 miles (4.5 … Caswell Farms. 4 Earlier in the 19th century a moated site on the parish's eastern border (the 'Black Moat') had been … to southeast, as part of a northsouth route from Shipton under Wychwood to Bampton (via Swinbrook). In the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the manor to his uncle Jasper Tudor, duke of Bedford, 32 on whose death without legitimate heir in 1495 it presumably … 1557 and was succeeded by his son Thomas, 102 who lived at Shipton-on-Cherwell and died in 1594. 103 Henry Rathbone, probably …
Broadwell Parish: Holwell
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… HOLWELL TOWNSHIP The small hamlet of Holwell 10 lies on downland formerly included in the northern part of … of 1,063 a. (430 ha.) remained unaltered in 2001. 13 On the west the township adjoined the county boundary with … Bldgs List (IoE 422188). The builder was Alfred Groves of Shipton-under-Wychwood. Plaque on organ. OHC, MSS Oxf. Dioc. …
Broadwell, Langford and Kelmscott: Cotswolds to Thames
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… Great Faringdon, and Lechlade. 1 Southwards they border on the river Thames, formerly the boundary between … Kelmscott, a small riverside settlement whose fame rests on its association with the writer, artist, and socialist … Windrush in Gloucestershire, Inglesham in Wiltshire, and Shipton-under-Wychwood in Oxfordshire. 1 Many of those places …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in its outline. It is clear that the boundaries shown on Richard Davis's map of 1794 were originally dictated in … Buckinghamshire border; on the west, the Thames and the Cherwell formed the boundary for part of the way, but instead … of Kirtlington formed Ploughley hundred and the three of Shipton formed Chadlington. The two hundreds of Headington in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… containing 532 inhabitants. This parish is situated on the road from York to Hull, and comprises 4208 a. 20 p., … surface is undulated. There is a good limestone-quarry. On the village green is a fine pool of water, near which … quarried. The living is a rectory, with the curacy of Shipton-George, valued in the king's books at 25, and in the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… of four small S.-flowing tributary streams of the R. Cherwell. The N. part is mainly on Upper Lias Clay at 165 m.200 m. above OD. To the S., … parts, Church End, High Street and Westhorp, each based on a N.S. street running along a ridge. This is best depicted …