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A History of the County of Oxford
… until the 1930s. They were listed in a survey of 1279 and as 'the king's rents' in 1468-9. 48 Later the corporation acquired the quitrents 49 and listed them annually with its other rents. Rentals … from 1733. 50 Until 1764 their arrangement was partly topographical, as was that of the late 18th-century land tax …
A History of the County of Oxford
… marking out of a site, probably confined on the north and east by the road, later Oxford Street, to the Old … called Hensgrove, acquired by the king from the Templars and taken into the park, perhaps when the town was founded. … nonconformist chapels, schools, a public station, and a railway station. The streets were repaved in the 1850s, and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… but it remained a small community of tradesmen, craftsmen, and royal servants. Service in the park and household is denoted by 13th-century surnames 67 such as … burned outside their houses. 45 Failure to establish a railway link until 1890 adversely affected the town's …
A History of the County of Oxford
… land outside the park so that men might build hospitia, and he granted a market to the new residents. 5 The story is … Woodstock was one of Henry's principal residences before and after his association with Rosamund and indeed the town … through Woodstock were carrying London travellers to the railway at Steventon (Berks.), and by 1852 coaches were …
A History of the County of Oxford
… New Woodstock was incorporated in 1453 75 the borough and its customs were ancient. The plots laid out at the … There were no fees for the office but from 1867 a paid assistant was appointed. 11 The earliest recorded town clerk … in local services, and in 1889 approved the Woodstock Railway Co.'s plans for the station. 74 In the earlier 20th …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 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 Bennet family. 87 The … provided two M.P.s. Returns were usually made by the mayor and commonalty, implying that the franchise, as in mayoral …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… acres on both sides of the river Frome between 200 ft. and 50 ft. above O.D. The S. part slopes from Chalk in the S.W., through areas on Reading Beds and London Clay, well-wooded to the E. around Woodstreet, to … been rebuilt. Broomhill Bridge, see Moreton, Monument (4). Railway Station, and Gatekeepers' Cottages at Bailey's Drove …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… at Aluredston. Three demesne servants were employed, and 22 boonworks at haymaking and 102 boonworks at harvest were worked; in addition, … Laurence was a contractor for the Avonmouth docks and railway. The lease expired in 1876 and the quarry went out of …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… in 1616 for schooling four poor children of Woolaston, 98 and a master was paid out of the charity funds in 1683. 99 In … resolved to appoint a mistress to teach nine poor boys, 1 and the Clayton charity of 40 s. a year was paid regularly to … from subscriptions but also received the Clayton charity 3 and in 1846 a grant of £30 from the National Society. 4 In …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… a parish of scattered hamlets lying midway between Lydney and Chepstow. Roughly rectangular in shape, it rises from the … north of the road it takes an erratic course unrelated to topographical features. It is likely that originally the … of 1,110 in 1851, perhaps partly due to the presence of railway navvies in the district that year. The population …