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A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Introduction: Architecture and Buildings ARCHITECTURE … and the excavated remains of the bishop of Winchester's manor house show that there was high-quality stone building … referred probably to quarries immediately west of the borough; manorial and (possibly) town quarries were recorded …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Local government LOCAL GOVERNMENT Seignorial Jurisdiction and Borough Courts Borough Autonomy By the mid 13th century … and the right to deliver and return royal writs, the king's officers being forbidden entry into the bishop's manors …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Manor and Manor House ('Bishop's Palace') MANOR AND MANOR HOUSE ('BISHOP'S PALACE') Witney … included land in all three townships as well as in the borough, together with manorial rights and courts. 4 In 1551, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Parish church and church life PARISH CHURCH AND … to the east, and almost certainly it long predated the borough's foundation. 1 The ecclesiastical parish, conterminous with …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Protestant nonconformity PROTESTANT NONCONFORMITY The … the growing centrality of Nonconformity to the town's social and civic as well as religious life (Figs. 546). An … Anglican churches together, overall attendance at the town's five Nonconformist meeting houses remained higher, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Roman catholicism ROMAN CATHOLICISM Despite hints of … probably with a group centred on the Greenwood family's manor house at Brize Norton: a priest from there tried to … including a shopkeeper, mantua-maker, publican, and tailor's wife. 6 Two or three Catholic families remained in 1802, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Somerset, 28 miles (W.) from Somerton, and 155 (W. by S.) from London; containing 2984 inhabitants. This place is … annually: it is said to have been formerly a parliamentary borough, and that it was relieved from the elective franchise … Wiveliscombe in the Cathedral of Wells, valued in the king's books at 27. 0. 10.; net income, 300. The church is a very …
A History of the County of Essex
… at Wivenhoe heath was bought and the yearly rent of £2 10 s. was used to buy material for gowns. In the early 19th … for £41,000 for residential development; in 1974 Feedham's Charity Trust, formed to administer the funds, built seven … to the upkeep of the houses after 1959. Colchester borough council gave a loan to help with the modernization of …
A History of the County of Essex
… third highest in Lexden hundred, 20 reflecting Wivenhoe's growth as a port whose develop- ment was linked with the … a total of 72 new grants for services was made. 39 The Borough English system of inherit- ance (ultimogeniture) … in the river Colne were often disputed with Colchester borough, but in 15678 Colchester corporation granted Wivenhoe …
A History of the County of Essex
… part of the new Colchester district, later designated borough. 86 Natural boundaries were formed by streams on the … to Fingringhoe ferry boat service was owned by Colchester borough council, which closed it in the 1950s when the number … a post office by 1853, probably the one which was in Queen's Road in 1887, and a sub post office at Wivenhoe Cross by …