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A History of the County of Sussex
… 80 In 1928 a mass centre was established at Red Oaks south of the parish church, served by the Southwark diocesan …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… c. 1290 a S. transept was added to the Nave; c. 1300 the South Aisle was added and the S. transept destroyed, except … Tower were built c. 1325. Late in the 15th century the South Porch was added. The church was restored in the 19th … of flowing tracery in a defaced two-centred head. The South Aisle (8 ft. wide) has an E. window similar to that in …
Henley and the Chilterns
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… rural parishes covered in this volume are in the far south-east of Oxfordshire, bordering Berkshire and … across parts of four counties, from Goring (Oxon.) in the south-west to Hitchin (Herts.) in the north-east. With their … by hills on three sides and low-lying meadows to the south. The river, which for part of its course marks the …
Henley: Boundaries, Landscape and Population
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… foothills of the Chilterns, in Oxfordshire's extreme south-eastern corner. 1 Laid out as a planned town probably … the belated arrival of the railway. The town occupied the south-eastern corner of a sizable ancient parish, which … Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, and, like the parish's south-western boundary with Rotherfield Greys, cut a sinuous …
Henley: Communications
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… of a bypass and the building of a second bridge north or south of Henley was considered in 1929, and in 1971 there … design. The old bridge, abutting the new one on its south side, was retained until c. 1785, and then sold off … 1963, adjusted 1966, pp. 15, 18 (copy in OxS). SODC, South Oxon. Local Plan (Dec. 1993), 160. Above, vol. intro. …
Henley: Henley and Fillets Manors
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… acquired Countess Garden (adjoining Phyllis Court on the south) in an exchange with the Moleynses. 1 Probably before … Garden', a 4-a. area on the town's northern edge just south of Bell Lane. The area was still open pasture in the …
Henley: Local Government
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… 19056 the borough was accordingly divided into north and south wards, each with six town councillors. 6 A refuse … housing, refuse collection and leisure) passed to the new South Oxfordshire District Council. 3 As a successor parish … social hist. (15501700: charities). Alleways piece in South field, sold in 1846 for the building of Holy Trinity …
Henley: Origin and Development of the Town
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… Prehistoric, Iron-Age and Romano-British activity in the south-west Chilterns is well attested, and from an early date … 2 More Roman pottery, daub and burnt flint has been found south-west of the market place near Rotherfield Court, in an … bounded on the east by the river Thames and on the south by the town brook or ditch, which flowed into the river …
Henley: Outlying Estates and Country Houses
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… 12 By c. 1900 there was again an adjoining deer park, south-east of the house near No Man's Hill; 13 the integrity … imitation barrow was erected as a folly a kilometre or so south of the house in 1731, by John Freeman of Fawley Court, … house, and a smaller one (called Friar's Field) to the south-east, with a lodge on the Badgemore road. 17 The names …
Henley: Outlying Farms and Agriculture
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… were apparently concentrated on the lower ground to the south and east, though patches of arable were also created … its remaining identity as the town expanded thereafter. 8 South field, mainly in Rotherfield Greys, included land … only c. 50 a. woodland, including plantation. Further south, parts of Lambridge Wood were cleared from the 17th …