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A History of the County of Somerset
… part of Wincanton poor-law union, and in 1894 of Wincanton rural district. As part of the civil parish of Compton …
Survey of London
… in its front, which is calculated to convey an idea of rural retirement. . . . The reading-rooms were opened for the …
Old and New London
… the place has within the last few years lost much of its rural character, through the gradual extension of buildings, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 54 It seems to have been the centre of the later Woodstock rural deanery until the mid 13th century. 55 In 1291, and … a chapel of ease. The removal of the centre of the rural deanery to Woodstock in the mid 13th century suggests …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the Woodstock poor-law union from 1834 and the Woodstock rural district from 1894, but in 1932 Hensington was moved to Chipping Norton rural district and Bladon to Witney rural district. Both parishes became part of West Oxfordshire …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Blaisdon Introduction BLAISDON BLAISDON, a small rural parish of c. 900 a. lying 7 miles west of Gloucester, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Westbury Union in 1835, 56 and became part of East Dean Rural District. 57 Glos. Colln. deeds 48.2, 4. Glos. R.O., D … Rep. p. 524. East Dean R.D. was the successor to Westbury Rural Sanitary District and had the same constituent parishes. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… The pleasure grounds on the east and west were linked by a rural path through the ferme ornée, known as the Sheep Walk, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… cloisters, and pools. It has been suggested that such a rural pavilion as Everswell, unique in England, may have … The buildings at Rosamund's well continued to be used as a rural retreat by the court, and were maintained into the 16th …
Old and New London
… was Bloomsbury only an isolated village, but it was quite rural in its retirement. Mr. Smith tells us, in his "Book for …