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A History of the County of Oxford
… century: 1 it is long and narrow in shape and lies between Watlington and Thame to the north of the Chilterns. It … road that links the main roads from Stokenchurch and Watlington to Oxford. This route must have been of some … southwest of the market town of Thame and 3 miles north of Watlington. Never a large village, it has now dwindled to a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1958 it was one of the chapels on the Methodist Thame and Watlington circuit. 222 A Primitive Methodist chapel 223 had …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of neighbouring villages. 183 Only the market-towns of Watlington and Thame received higher abatements. The incident …
A History of the County of Oxford
… for the Civil War; he was arrested while fleeing from Watlington, where he had been trying to seize the magazine, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Parishes Watlington WATLINGTON Like other Chiltern parishes the ancient parish of Watlington was long and narrow, being nowhere more than a … the main body of the parish by a part of Pishill parish. 1 Watlington ran, as it does now, from the Cuxham boundary in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… parish lying at the foot of the Chilterns between Watlington and Thame. The modern acreage is 740 acres, but … parole at Thame, and of the fire engines from Shirburn and Watlington, failed to save the building. The officer's … of wheat 'plentifully sown in the vale between Thame and Watlington called 'mix'd lammas', which yielded considerably …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… hundred of Pirton, county of Oxford, 1 mile (N.) from Watlington; containing 711 inhabitants, and comprising by …
Staffordshire Historical Collections
… she had against him for the land of Robert de Oilly in Watlington and in Ispedene, and in the knight's service (for …
A History of the County of Oxford
… family for several generations. 69 John Henry Tilson of Watlington Park succeeded to the property in 1774 and in 1795 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… George Curzon and almost captured the Earl of Berkshire at Watlington. 98 In the absence of any Royalist force of … Royalist plans for the year. On 23 April Cromwell reached Watlington with 1,500 horse, hoping to intercept Maurice and …