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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… 420 hectares lying across Willow Brook, between 80 ft. and 210 ft. above OD. Most of it is on bands of clays, limestones and sands which outcrop along the valley of the brook. … long narrow closes, orientated N.-S. and bounded by low banks, with the much damaged remains of building-platforms at …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… ft. along the Frome. The S. half is all on Bagshot Beds and Plateau Gravel and is partly heathland while the N. is largely on a wide … Two holdings in Woodsford, presumably East Woodsford and West Woodsford, are listed in Domesday Book. The former …
A History of the County of Oxford
… until the 1930s. They were listed in a survey of 1279 and as 'the king's rents' in 1468-9. 48 Later the corporation acquired the quitrents 49 and listed them annually with its other rents. Rentals survive for 1598, 1602, 1609-18, 1652, 1654, 1684, and for most years from 1733. 50 Until 1764 their arrangement …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1488). 77 In 1551 the corporation bought the chantry house and undertook to use it for three or four almsmen, but the site was later found inconvenient and in the 1590s the house was taken over for the town … in Hollow Way (later Oxford Street), rebuilding it in 1612 and again in 1724. 79 In 1614 it housed old men and women; a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… marking out of a site, probably confined on the north and east by the road, later Oxford Street, to the Old … called Hensgrove, acquired by the king from the Templars and taken into the park, perhaps when the town was founded. … have been laid out only when New Woodstock was planned, and on its south side is the church, where a 12th-century …
A History of the County of Oxford
… but it remained a small community of tradesmen, craftsmen, and royal servants. Service in the park and household is denoted by 13th-century surnames 67 such as Parker, Porter, Franklin, Despenser, and Marshall; other names were derived from the building …
A History of the County of Oxford
… New Woodstock was incorporated in 1453 75 the borough and its customs were ancient. The plots laid out at the town's foundation were held by burgage tenure, 76 and the burgesses from the outset, in addition to their … the 'bays' or sluices in the meadows, repaired the river banks, and cleansed the river, the ditches, and the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… close to the east side of Blenheim Park. 1 The borough and market town, called formally New Woodstock until the 19th … century, was founded in the 12th century in Bladon parish and remained ecclesiastically dependent on Bladon thereafter. … 1974 when, as a successor parish, it retained town status and the privilege of appointing a mayor and other officers. 2 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (W.) from Wells; containing, with the tything of Yarley, and part of Wookey-Hole, 1187 inhabitants. The living is a … 12. 15. 10.: the great tithes have been commuted for 212, and the vicarial for 299. 5.; the glebe comprises 5 acres. At … to Christ. In the side of the Mendip hills, about a mile and a half from the village, is the curious cavern termed …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… acres on both sides of the river Frome between 200 ft. and 50 ft. above O.D. The S. part slopes from Chalk in the S.W., through areas on Reading Beds and London Clay, well-wooded to the E. around Woodstreet, to … only a farm. The parish church, the ruins of Bindon Abbey and the adjacent house are the principal monuments. …