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A History of the County of Oxford
… Wolvercote Economic history Economic history St. Frideswide's estate at Cutteslowe was administered independently of Wolvercote from the Middle Ages; its economic organization is described …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Introduction WOLVERCOTE, an ancient parish lying on the north-west of the city and liberty of Oxford, c. 2 ½ miles north of the … extra-parochial areas of Godstow, Cutteslowe, King's Weir, and Pixey Mead were incorporated in the later 19th …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Roger d'Ivri held WOLVERCOTE in 1086, and Godfrey held of him. 61 There is no further record of the under-tenancy, and d'Ivri's successors probably held in demesne. The manor descended …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Wolvercote Site and remains of Godstow abbey Site and remains of Godstow abbey Godstow abbey was built on an island between streams of the Thames given to the foundress c. 1133 by John of St. John. The site was enlarged in 1139 by John's grant of a further piece of land in front of the church (or …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wombleton - Woodbury Wombleton WOMBLETON, a township, in the parish of Kirkdale, union of Helmsley, wapentake of Ryedale, N. riding of York, 4 miles (E. by S.) from Helmsley; containing 337 inhabitants. It comprises …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… Wood Walton 98. WOOD WALTON (C.c.). (O.S. 6 in. (a)XIII N.E. (b)XIII S.E. (c)XIV N.W.). Wood Walton is a parish and village, 6 m. N.N.W. of Huntingdon. The church and Castle Hill are the principal monuments. …
Alumni Oxonienses
… Woodall, William 1600. See Woodhall. Woodarde, Nicholas s. Christopher, of Mechlen in Flanders, gent. Magdalen Hall, matric. 9 Oct., … of Ashe, Surrey, 1642, and of Brightwell, Berks, 1660, warden of his college 1658, until his death 16 June, 1675; …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Mary) WOODCHESTER ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Stroud, hundred of Longtree, E. division of the county of Gloucester, 2 miles (S. W.) from Stroud; containing 908 inhabitants. This place is … a parish, in the union of Daventry, hundred of Chipping-Warden, S. division of the county of Northampton, 7 miles (S. …
The Environs of London
… WOODFORD Etymology. Situation. Boundaries. Quantity of land. Soil. This place was so called from the ford in the wood, where Woodford-bridge now is. It lies … free from the payment of the same, when they came to God's board, might say a Pater noster and an Ave for his soul, …
A History of the County of Essex
… LOCAL GOVERNMENT. During the Middle Ages the abbot of Waltham, as lord of the manor, held courts for Woodford. … court. He claimed that, because of the annual payment of 4 s. to the exchequer, and references in the great roll of 1287 … appointed junior churchwarden and, the next year, 'upper' warden. Occasionally, in the early 18th century, the rector …