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A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Development of the town Development of the town New Woodstock developed at a gate into the royal park. The town's … and east by the road, later Oxford Street, to the Old Woodstock river crossing. 90 The south boundary divided …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Economic history Economic history In the century … Evidence adduced for a substantial pottery industry in Woodstock is weak, 68 requiring the assumption that ovens … or any Oxfordshire market town except Eynsham. 72 In 1327 Woodstock's assessment of c. 40 s. was paid by only 18 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Education Education Woodstock had an early free grammar school, two small charity … inadequate grammar school. Martin Cave, curate of Woodstock and former chantry priest, probably taught a … By will of 1585 Richard Cornwell, a London skinner born in Woodstock, left £ 300 to provide and support a grammar school …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Introduction Introduction In 1279 local jurors asserted that New Woodstock was founded by Henry II to provide lodgings for his retinue when he was at Woodstock Park, which he visited regularly for love of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Local government Local government BOROUGH TO 1886.When New Woodstock was incorporated in 1453 75 the borough and its … was merely one of several 'members' of the royal manor of Woodstock, whose bailiff was accountable for the borough's …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Overview Overview WOODSTOCK lies 8 miles (12 km.) north-west of Oxford on the … Park. 1 The borough and market town, called formally New Woodstock until the 19th century, was founded in the 12th …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Parliamentary representation Parliamentary representation Woodstock sent two representatives to parliament in 1302 and … Bennet family. 87 The borough charter of 1453 freed Woodstock from the burden of representation 88 but in 1553 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Protestant nonconformity Protestant Nonconformity The Presbyterian Thomas Whateley preached at Woodstock in the late 1660s, 55 and in 1672 Edward Miles and … be continuing a conventicle in 1678. 56 In the 1680s many Woodstock people were said to be attending Anabaptist …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Roman Catholicism Roman Catholicism. Woodstock presumably had a significant recusant community in … to time until Catholic emancipation. 51 By 1930, 52 when Woodstock formed part of the parish of St. Gregory and St. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Peter) WOOLVERCOTT ( St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Woodstock, hundred of Wootton, county of Oxford, 2 miles (N. …