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A History of the County of Oxford
… house with a large close in Hollow Way (later Oxford Street), rebuilding it in 1612 and again in 1724. 79 In 1614 … of the poor. 85 The buildings survive as nos. 76-8 Oxford Street. 86 William Cornwell, alderman, by will proved 1552 charged his house in Copperyware Street with 6 s. 8 d. to be distributed to the poor in bread …
A History of the County of Oxford
… purposes. 36 He provided a church house (no. 11 Park Street), where there were clubs and a choir room, 37 and he … house may have stood east of a passage from Park Street to the north door of the church, and was perhaps the … the surviving south door, was approached from Park Street by a stile and passage between houses fronting the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… confined on the north and east by the road, later Oxford Street, to the Old Woodstock river crossing. 90 The south … remained difficult, requiring long causeways. 92 Park Street, running east from the park gate, may have been laid … The survey was arranged topographically and, although street names were lacking, some sequences of rents may be …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of a Bicester charity. 4 A Northampton dyer owned a High Street shop in 1500, 5 and in 1499 William Harcourt of … Crossley, a Kidlington draper, bought a house in Market Street (later part of the Woodstock Arms) from an Oxford … his 'mansion house' built a large new house in Park Street (nos. 28); 27 his sons Thomas and William both became …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Dolman gave money to trustees to buy property in Oxford Street (now nos. 8-12), 89 and the school probably opened … partly for the use of the school, 90 took over the Oxford Street houses and a rent charge of £8 a year from Childrey … grammar school may have been on the site of no. 10 Oxford Street, where a former schoolhouse was rebuilt by the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… were found near the church in 1755 and an urn near Oxford Street in 1810. 11 The underlying rock is Oolitic limestone, … altered in the 13th century when the east side of Oxford Street was laid out. 18 In the 1580s there was a dispute over … the boundary near Starting Grove, east of the later Union Street, 19 and then and later there was uncertainty over the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the Norths, and Hawkins all lived in large houses in Park Street, and Walker, the duke's agent and town clerk of … 18th century to ring the curfew bell and scavenge in Park Street, 69 and a separate scavenger for the central streets … admission fees was spent on repairs to corporate property, street cleaning, and punitive instruments. 74 For most of the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… challenge was averted only by a large outlay on debts and street paving. At a byelection on Wheate's death in 1721 his … 'the most shameful scenes ever remembered in Woodstock', a street riot involved the duke's three sons: Lord Blandford …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Boulton's house opposite the Marlborough Arms in Oxford Street, registered in that year; mobs, including soldiers, … and a chapel built on the site of a stable in High Street. 61 The Baptists opened a Sunday school, and in 1831 … was built in 1824-5 on land on the west side of Oxford Street acquired by Daniel Evans, the Oxford builder. 69 There …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was opened in an outbuilding at Haddon House (no. 18 Park Street), owned by Mary, Lady Terry, and served by Jesuit …