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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… church has a handsome Norman doorway on the south side. Woburn (St. Mary) WOBURN ( St. Mary), a market-town and parish, and the head of … of 11,282. In the immediate vicinity of the town is Woburn Abbey, with its noble park, the seat of his grace. Itoccupies …
A History of the County of Essex
… was not valued in 1291 when it paid 4 s. to St. John's abbey, Colchester, and 2 s. 2 d. to St. Osyth's priory. 7 The …
A History of the County of Essex
… parish extending into Cockaynes in Elmstead. 24 St. John's abbey, Colchester, owned 120 a. called Withemorhad and … was granted by Eudes the sewer (d. 1120) to St. John's abbey. 36 In 1395 nineteen men paid avesage for pannage for …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… (b)xxix. N.E.) Wix is a parish 6 m. W.S.W. of Harwich. Wix Abbey is the principal monument. Ecclesiastical b(1). Parish … ConditionGood, mostly rebuilt. Secular b(2). Wix Abbey, house (Plate, p. 231), 60 yards S. of the church, is …
Survey of London
… Woburn Lodge LXXIIWOBURN LODGE, UPPER WOBURN PLACE Immediately south of St. Pancras Church, on the east side of Upper Woburn Place, stood Woburn Lodge, a stuccoed house of two …
Survey of London
… Woburn Walk and Duke's Road LXXIIIWOBURN WALK AND DUKE'S ROAD (formerly Woburn Buildings) From the east side of Woburn Place, Thomas Cubitt erected a little street of shops …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… family of Clare, who gave the manor and church to Tintern Abbey, together with several granges stretching across the … of worship for Baptists. An alien priory, a cell to the abbey of St. Peter super Divam, in Normandy, was founded here …
A History of the County of Oxford
… claimed small tithes and other dues from Godstow abbey and its servants, but had to acknowledge that the abbey itself was exempt, as were its servants, except for … a year, which seems to have been paid by the mill. 30 The abbey's rights over its servants may have led to one of its …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Ages, probably in the later 14th century, when Godstow abbey consolidated much of its demesne land in Wolvercote and … under Oxford. 96 Among the original endowments of Godstow abbey were 3 hams of meadow (Boieham, Henringesham and … horses and cattle, including 40 bullocks, but much of the abbey's meadow and pasture had been leased to tenants. The …
A History of the County of Oxford
… or earlier, of the demesne land and site of Godstow abbey as an extra-parochial area, altered the southern and … was composed of the site and demesne lands of Godstow abbey, a Benedictine nunnery founded c. 1133 on land given by … St. John, the lord of Wolvercote manor. 36 The site of the abbey, between streams of the Thames, was thus presumably …