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A History of the County of Oxford
… survived until the 1930s. They were listed in a survey of 1279 and as 'the king's rents' in 1468-9. 48 Later the … road was converted into cottages after the Second World War. The 1½ d. quit rent of the later no. 16 Oxford Street … college sold the derelict building during the First World War. The hotel was restored in the 1930s and trade received …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Church Church. The church, of which the south doorway is of the 12th century, was … in 1641 and flourished until disrupted by the Civil War. 91 In the 17th century rectors frequently employed … rector of Wootton, 94 was curate throughout the Civil War and, although the Bladon living was sequestrated, served …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Development of the town Development of the town New Woodstock developed … century, later the Blandford Arms until the First World War. From the late 18th century until the early 20th no. 38 … school on Shipton Road in 1968. 42 After the Second World War Hensington continued to be built up; in the 1950 houses …
A History of the County of Oxford
… its original market, 66 but it remained a small community of tradesmen, craftsmen, and royal servants. Service in the … on the flesh side of the skin. Until the First World War the army ordered white, pipeclayed gloves in large … premises in 1943 but ceased gloving there soon after the war. 69 Crutch's glove factory in New Road, Hensington, was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was at Woodstock Park, which he visited regularly for love of Rosamund Clifford; he therefore provided land outside the … The population increased rapidly after the Second World War, reaching 1,715 by 1951 and 2,037 by 1981. Hensington … Oxford but the service was pruned after the Second World War and the line closed in 1954. 59 The station survives, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… as a borough in the early 14th century. 78 The development of self-government was only gradual, for the vill was merely … in later sources, 29 has not been traced. Until the Civil War political pressure on the corporation was restricted … gentry at times of parliamentary elections, 30 but the war and its aftermath led to politically motivated …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 86 all seem to have been residents and two were members of the prominent Bennet family. 87 The borough charter of 1453 freed Woodstock from the burden of representation 88 … in 1622 and thereafter controlled the seat until the Civil War. William Lenthall, 6 who succeeded Whitelocke as recorder …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was a registered meeting, probably Baptist, at the house of Samuel Wise, an Old Woodstock farmer, but in 1738 the … from 1914 until c. 1928, and after the Second World War services were maintained chiefly by student pastors from … use for school and evening services until the Second World War, and was converted into a private house in 1957. It was …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… 6 ins. aSY 88 NW, bSY 88 NE, SY 89 SW) The modern parish of Wool, 5 m. W. of Wareham, covers some 3,000 acres on both sides of the … by Humphrey Weld in 1641 and burnt down in the Civil War in c. 1644 (Hutchins I, 349). In 1785 the account book of …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… MANOR AND OTHER ESTATES. Before the Conquest Brictric son of Algar held two hides in WOOLASTON within Twyford hundred. … he was an active supporter of the king during the Civil War, and on the defeat of the royalist cause part of his … been the residence of the Woodroffe family since the Civil War, 72 but although James Woodroffe held land in Cone House …