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A History of the County of Worcester
… (ix cent.); Croppethorne (xii cent.). The parish of Cropthorne lies in the south-east of the county and is … but the captain placed some of his crew in the street near College Green with orders to seize his brother, and assisted … by J. Hart, 1741, p. 11. There is in the library of the British Museum a full report of the trial published by H. …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Parishes Crowcombe CROWCOMBE The parish of Crowcombe lies on the south-west slope of the Quantocks. Shaped like a lozenge, it covers 1,324 ha. … rector 145970, held the living while president of Magdalen College, Oxford, and occupying two other benefices. 228 John …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and is never more than -mile wide. The northern part of the parish lies in the plain to the north of the Icknield … in 1883. 7 The nearest halt was at Kingston Blount. British Railways closed the line to passengers in 1957. 8 … and Walter Bayley (166995), both Fellows of Magdalen College. 178 During the troubled years of the mid-17th …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Parishes Croxton CROXTON Croxton is a parish of 1,909 a. forming a projection of Cambridgeshire into … had in that year retired from the mastership of Clare College, Cambridge. 61 Dr. Leeds died in 1589, and was … was, nevertheless, resident. 236 The rector c.1787 was a college fellow and presumably an absentee. 237 The patron at …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Parishes Croydon cum Clopton CROYDON CUM CLOPTON The parish of Croydon cum Clopton, 1 16 km. south-west of Cambridge, … towards the Hatleys was made in 1830. 40 In 1827 Downing college established the Downing Arms at a farmhouse on the … lands it descended thereafter, passing in 1800 to Downing College, Cambridge. 221 The college sold its farms in Croydon …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Crudwell CRUDWELL Crudwell village 1 is 6 km. north-east of Malmesbury. 2 It took its name either from the stream … a Bronze-Age bowl barrow may have been at Chedglow. Romano-British remains, including skeletons and coins at Murcott, … and in 1935 Saunders sold it to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. In 1967 the college sold it to Mr. J. J. …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… parish north-eastward from Wye. It appears by the register of Leeds abbey, that this parish was likewise once called … the reversion of them to the master and chaplains of the college of Maydenstone, then lately founded by archbishop … his 1st year, by inspexi mus; and in the possession of the college they continued till the suppression of it in the 1st …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… station on the Great Western Railway. The general rise of the ground is from south to north, the height above the … the east of the main road. A female skeleton with a Romano-British vessel was discovered under the lawn at the rectory … to Dr. John Burton, 47 who was head master of Winchester College from 1724 to 1766. In 1778 Crux Easton was the sole …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… cent.); Cobelintone, Colblyngton (xiv cent.); The parish of Cublington contains 1,223 acres, comprising 117 acres of … John Unwin sold it to the Warden and scholars of Lincoln College, Oxford, for 1,000. 69 Lincoln College still presents. The church, which has always been a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… than at present. It included the modern civil parishes of Wheatley and Denton as well as the hamlet of … gamekeeper's cottage is still tenanted, and Magdalen College is the present owner of Coombe Wood, having bought it … Agric. Soc. 2nd ser. vi, p. xcvii. Young, Oxon. Agric. 12. British Farmers' Mag. xiv. 460; cf. below, p. 150. Chron. …