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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… are waste. The vicarial tithes have been commuted for 35, and the impropriate for 30. Widdington (St. Mary) WIDDINGTON … 2 r. 37 p., of which 1375 acres are arable, 337 pasture, and 248 woodland. The living is a rectory, valued in the … partly rebuilt with brick, retains several details in the Norman style. Widdington WIDDINGTON, a township, in the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… The parish is situated on the Great Ouse river, and comprises 1275 a. 1 r. 34 p., of which 543 acres are arable, and 677 meadow and pasture. The surface is flat; a … the margin of the Wharfe, is an ancient structure in the Norman style. The eastern part of the chancel was fully …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 1050 acres, in full cultivation; the surface is pleasing, and the village, though small, is neatly built, and of rural aspect. The tithes have been commuted for 14. 3. … 38, and the glebe comprises 13 acres. The church is in the Norman style. Wilford, or Wilfrids Ford (St. Wilfrid) …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a joint benefice was created, known as Ramsden, Finstock and Fawler, Leafield with Wychwood and Wilcote. 97 The first known presentation to the living … chapel'. 17 Closure was considered in 1937, but Antony Norman undertook to maintain the church and to hold three or …
A History of the County of Oxford
… suggests that the parish was an independent agrarian unit, and the division of a small freeholding in the early 17th … south. The former bore the collective name Wilcote fields, and presumably comprised several fields once grouped together … farm was farmed by Eric Boston, and the manor farm by the Norman family. 82 Wilcote's rather stony soil has usually …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 49 It lies 4 miles (6.4 km.) south by east of Charlbury, and 5 miles (8 km.) north by east of Witney, for long its market and social centre. 50 Wilcote was from the Middle Ages and … Sept. 1669; ibid. note of 19 Nov. 1675. Inf. from Sir Mark Norman. P.R.O., E 32/135, 137, 251; E 32/306/1. O.R.O., …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Lord Grey. 6 Martin Lacy was recorded as overlord in 1455, and William Brewer in 1465 and 1466, 7 presumably by Crown grant, but no other reference … manor in 1937, 37 and sold it in the same year to Antony Norman, who was succeeded in 1972 by his nephew Sir Mark …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in the union of Tiverton, hundred of Halberton, Collumpton and N. divisions of Devon, 2 miles (N. N. E.) from … This parish, which is situated on the road between Exeter and Bristol, comprises 983 a. 2 r. 37 p. The soil is various; … 8695 inhabitants. This place, at the period of the Norman survey, was called Winehala, the Saxon term for …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Middlesex
… Ancient and historical monuments in Middlesex Willesden 58 WILLESDEN … rubble with a little flint; the dressings are of Reigate and other freestone and the roofs are covered with tiles. The … here late in the 12th century and remains of a narrow Norman window are said to have been found in the N. wall when …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… of Willesden until 1867. The rectory belonged to the dean and chapter of St. Paul's, London. 43 A vicarage was first … mentioned in 1249-50 as having all the altar dues, a house and garden next the church, and some land. 44 The advowson of … of the church is the mid 12th-century font, one of six Norman fonts in Middlesex. 3 A narrow 12thcentury window, …