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A History of the County of Oxford
… lies in the Oxfordshire wolds some 2 miles north-west of Banbury. 1 In 1881 it covered 926 a. and in 1932, after a … to the Norths' estate and was bought in 1935 by Trinity College, Oxford. 33 This connexion with the North family … family's Wroxton manor, and was held by them until Trinity College, Oxford, purchased it in 1935 and 1942. 116 Local …
A History of the County of Oxford
… area was slightly increased in the 1870's as a consequence of the Divided Parishes Acts (18761882), and was given in the … visitations made by the President and Fellows of Trinity College, Oxford. In 1769 298 elms and ashes were cut leaving … Thomas Pope who used it to endow his foundation, Trinity College, Oxford. 50 Most of the estate remained in the …
A History of the County of Worcester
… cent.); Duddelge (xii cent.). Dudley forms a detached part of Worcestershire lying in the county of Stafford on the … seems to have continued until 1853, when a Local Board of Health, consisting of fifteen persons, was established under … benefit of the Sunday school of the chapel. Gazetteer of British Isles. Statistics from Bd. of Agric. (1905). …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Parishes Dullingham DULLINGHAM The parish of Dullingham, 1 covering 3, 387 a., 2 lies 10 miles east of … John Hasyll, who resold them in 1580 to trustees for Clare College, Cambridge. 198 In 1798 the college owned 327 a., including c. 70 a. of heath, 199 and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Parishes Duns Tew DUNS TEW Duns Tew parish lies just south of Deddington and 16 miles (26 km.) north of Oxford. The … the boundary with North Aston and Middle Aston. 10 Romano-British finds south-west of Ilbury Bridge were probably … a. in the northeast corner of the parish, adjacent to the college's land in Deddington. 82 The Duns Tew land formed …
A History of the County of Bedford
… road from London to Chester and Holyhead, from the former of which it is distant 32 miles. The town stands about 480 … and the possibly still older Icknield Way, probably of British origin, crosses from south-east to west. But … from Holyhead to London. From an old MS. at Heralds' College quoted by Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vi, 239. The town must …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Durle (xiv cent.); Dyrle (xvi cent.). Durley is a parish of 2,497 acres, lying between the upper waters of the Hamble River and its tributary Ford Lake, the latter … Crucis de Durley. Will in Muniment Room of Winchester College. Wykebam's Reg. (Hants Rec. Soc.), i, App. 391. Harl. …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… westwards from the Christchurch Avon to the watershed of the Avon and the Till. 2 Beside the Avon to the north a … flint workings. 22 South-west of Durrington Walls a Romano-British village of the late 3rd century or early 4th, from … range in brick in the earlier 19th. In the lane now called College Road, across the angle of Bulford Road and Church …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Parishes Duxford DUXFORD The village of Duxford 1 (formerly Duxworth) 2 comprised until 1874 two … sold the reversion to Dr. Thomas Legge, master of Caius College, Cambridge, 166 who in 1599 conveyed the manor to … dissenters' children from Duxford may have attended the British school at Ickleton: 685 in 1877 20 children went to …
A History of the County of Northampton
… (xiv xx cent.); Barton Yarles (xvi cent.). The parish of Earls Barton is pleasantly situated on the north bank of the River Nene, near which the land is low-lying and often … remains have been found in this parish; these include British coins of the late Celtic period 1 and an earthwork …