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A History of the County of Oxford
… and Nonconformist schools better suited to the town's needs. John Holloway's Bluecoat school at West End, endowed in 1724, catered … and again in 1993. 98 Tower Hill Primary school in Moor Lane, the open-plan Queen's Dyke County Primary School on the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and Curbridge were added in 1932, bringing the town's area to 1,306 a., and intakes from Curbridge (47 a.) and … the river and surrounded by low-lying alluvium. The river's surviving eastern branch formed the town's and parish's … the western boundary following roughly the lines of Puck Lane and of the lane called the Crofts across the narrow neck …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and the excavated remains of the bishop of Winchester's manor house show that there was high-quality stone building … been built parallel to the street. A house on High Street's east side, described in 1704, had a parlour, hall, entry, … dwellings mostly along Corn Street and Meeting House Lane, one of them (bought in 1764) divided into three …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and the right to deliver and return royal writs, the king's officers being forbidden entry into the bishop's manors except in connection with Crown pleas. 1 In 1284 the … and a new sewerage system, with a pumping station on Dark Lane, was finally opened in 1902, funded largely by loans …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Manor and Manor House ('Bishop's Palace') MANOR AND MANOR HOUSE ('BISHOP'S PALACE') Witney Manor In 969 King Eadgar gave the 30-hide … east of the main curia, bounded on the north by Farm Mill Lane, and on the east by the river Windrush; by the mid 13th …
A History of the County of Oxford
… east, and almost certainly it long predated the borough's foundation. 1 The ecclesiastical parish, conterminous with … probably an error, arising possibly from the parish church's location just outside the borough boundary within Curbridge … required expensive repairs, and a new house in Station Lane was acquired to serve as the rectory. The old house …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the growing centrality of Nonconformity to the town's social and civic as well as religious life (Figs. 546). An … Anglican churches together, overall attendance at the town's five Nonconformist meeting houses remained higher, … meeting house on Marlborough (formerly Meeting House) Lane was built about 1712 on Mather's initiative, reportedly …
A History of the County of Essex
… link the main roads and the river. In 1734 they included a lane running west from The Entry to a crossing on the river … a post office by 1853, probably the one which was in Queen's Road in 1887, and a sub post office at Wivenhoe Cross by … settlement. 23 The place name, Wivenhoe, meaning Wifa's ridge or spur of land, 24 suggests early Anglo-Saxon …
A History of the County of Essex
… in a former school in High Street. In 1967 St. Monica's Roman Catholic church was opened off De Vere Lane. In 1995 it was served by a priest from Brightlingsea …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… Wix 99. WIX. (F.c.) (O.S. 6 in. (a)xxix. N.W. (b)xxix. N.E.) Wix is a parish 6 m. W.S.W. of Harwich. Wix Abbey is the principal monument. … at the N. and S. ends. a(5). Cottage, in Honeypot Lane, nearly 1 m. S.S.W. of (4). ConditionPoor. b(6). Bardox …