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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
… the initials and date T. and W.H. 1691. c(39). Low Rough Hill, house 600 yards W. of (38), has a later and … and a fireplace with a corbelled head. c(40). High Rough Hill, house, 170 yards W.S.W. of (39), has an early … ConditionBad. e(72). Cairns, etc., on Four Stones Hill m. N. of (71), occupy a shelf on the side of the fell …
A History of the County of Oxford
… transferred to Standlake or Hardwick c. 1886. 23 Combe Hill, in Lew township's southern part, was said in 1708 to be …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Garden," presenting two rows of seats cut in the side of a hill, and of very ancient date. About the year 1135, a castle … Pembroke alone to meet the enemy (who had encamped on a hill near the town) on the following day. In the battle which … to the king in the week following the battle of Edge Hill, Oct. 1642; it withstood a slight siege from the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and some survived in 1700. 43 Not all early leases were at rack rent or for short terms, and though rackrenting and … of 17th-century holdings into large leasehold farms let at rack rent. 47 After 1812 Edward Whitaker granted the … I/v/4. P.R.O., CP 25/2/196/14 Eliz. I Hil. For Windmill Hill furlong (site of later Windmill Ho.), O.R.O., incl. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to George's younger son, the Hon. John Coventry of Spring Hill (Worcs.) and later of Burgate House (Hants), who in 1824 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… others included the relatively prosperous comb-maker John Hill, and Edward Bettres or Bettrice, perhaps related to the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… passed to his relict Eleanor and her second husband John Hill of Burford and later of Bampton, who were in dispute …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1628) and Jacob West (d. 1684), both reeves, and Richard Hill, merchant (d. 1658). Seven dissenters are known to have … Vicar of Banbury, and 4 a. of glebe, called Upper White Hill. In 1853 a vicarage-house was provided. The … Par. Colln. 2227. Beesley, Hist. Banbury, 267, 279. C. Hill, 'William Perkins and the Poor', Puritanism and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… fields there is no direct evidence. 10 The crest of Crouch Hill, south-west of the town, was never cleared, but the rest … simply the creation of a small preserve around Crouch hill, the 1330 licence led to the extinguishing of pasture … lying on the west of the Oxford road at the top of the hill leading out of the town, 28 but it seems likely that the …