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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
… by Henry II. The borough was created within Bladon parish and its church remained a chapel of ease, although rarely … rural deanery was established by the mid 13th century, and the rectors of Bladon were often called rectors of … 34 The chapel acquired a measure of independence and was unusually closely controlled by the town corporation. …
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 … nonconformist chapels, schools, a public station, and a railway station. The streets were repaved in the 1850s, and … 19th century, presumably because of the newly established railway link, the duke of Marlborough considered schemes for …
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 … burned outside their houses. 45 Failure to establish a railway link until 1890 adversely affected the town's … in 1881 was employing 30 workers. 64 The opening of the railway in 1890 encouraged outside firms to invest in and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… land outside the park so that men might build hospitia, and he granted a market to the new residents. 5 The story is … through Woodstock were carrying London travellers to the railway at Steventon (Berks.), and by 1852 coaches were … and Oxford with regular omnibus connexions to the railway at Kidlington. 55 Poorer communications forced a …
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 … in local services, and in 1889 approved the Woodstock Railway Co.'s plans for the station. 74 In the earlier 20th …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock sent two representatives to parliament in 1302 and two others in 1305; 86 all seem to have been residents and two were members of the prominent Bennet family. 87 The … that he would not intervene, but in the end provided carriages to carry voters to the poll. 33 The constituency …
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 … been rebuilt. Broomhill Bridge, see Moreton, Monument (4). Railway Station, and Gatekeepers' Cottages at Bailey's Drove …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… at Aluredston. Three demesne servants were employed, and 22 boonworks at haymaking and 102 boonworks at harvest were worked; in addition, … Laurence was a contractor for the Avonmouth docks and railway. The lease expired in 1876 and the quarry went out of …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… a parish of scattered hamlets lying midway between Lydney and Chepstow. Roughly rectangular in shape, it rises from the … of 1,110 in 1851, perhaps partly due to the presence of railway navvies in the district that year. The population … after the building of a bridge c. 1876 for the mineral railway from the Tintern wire-works to the Wye Valley line. …