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A History of the County of Oxford
… Bourton Bourton chapelry (1,681 a.) lay in the south-west of Cropredy parish between the River Cherwell on the east and … of the estate was eventually added to the Brasenose College estate in Cropredy. 64 LITTLE BOURTON manor appears … was built, following the threat of the establishment of a British school, to accommodate a further 40 children, and …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… GREAT AND LITTLE EVERSDEN Lying side by side 6 miles WSW. of Cambridge, Great and Little Eversden are distinct parishes … received Eversden. Joan gave the manor in 1491 to Queens' College, Cambridge, to endow a fellowship and to secure the … 1931. 328 The school became an aided school in 1951. 329 A British school at Great Eversden was built in 1847 by the …
A History of the County of Bedford
… cent.). Great Barford is a low-lying parish, with an area of 2,843 acres, in the basin of the River Ouse. The slope is … 8 After Veseys Manor was granted to Higham Ferrers College no further mention has been found of the … it still in 1428. 28 Upon the foundation, however, of the College of Higham Ferrers in 1424, 29 Henry Chicheley granted …
A History of the County of Northampton
… Billing GREAT BILLING Bellinge (xi-xii cents.). The parish of Great Billing covers about 1,386 acres. The soil varies … its possessions 80 and in 1528 he bestowed them upon his college at Oxford, 81 but the gift probably never took … advowson in 1706 to the Master and Fellows of Brasenose College, Oxford, in whom it is vested at the present day. 110 …
A History of the County of Surrey
… (xvi cent.). Great Bookham is a village 2 miles south-west of Letherhead. The parish is bounded on the north by Stoke … for charitable uses, but chiefly for the benefit of Exeter College, Oxford, thereby carrying out an intention of Mrs. Elizabeth Shiers, who is commemorated at Exeter College, Oxford, as a benefactor. 51 The present occupants of …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… to Bethersden north-eastward, It was called in the time of the Saxons, both Selebertes and Sybertes Chert, no doubt from the owners of it at that time. In Domesday it is written Certh; in other … was physician to Christ's hospital, and register of the college of physicians; Thomas, was of Ashburn, in Derbyshire, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… GREAT CHEVERELL The parish 1 is situated 4 miles south of Devizes. 2 It covers 1,846 a. and is long and narrow in … (Middle Welsh, land to be ploughed in common) and ial (British, fertile or cultivated upland region), a thesis which … Shortly afterwards the bishop gave the advowson to Queens' College, Cambridge, of which he had formerly been president. …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Faryngdon alias Chepyngfaryngdon (xv cent.). The parish of Great Faringdon 1 covers 5,897 acres, lying along the … tenement and close called Avelyns, belonging to Brasenose College, Oxford, and perhaps also their mansion of Eynsams. … m. 157; Hil. 17 Geo. III, m. 54. G. A. Cooke, The Modern British Traveller, i, 88. Recov. R. Mich. 48 Geo. III, m. …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… (xiv cent.), Grandesden, Gransden (xvi cent.). The parish of Great Gransden contains over 3,402 acres of land. The … streams crossing the parish are named Waresley Dean, College Dean, Vicars Dean, Mandean and Gransden Brooks, while … from an earlier house. To the south of the church is the College Farm belonging to Clare College, Cambridge, an …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… Ha(m)dena (xi cent.); Magna Hamden (xiv cent.). The parish of Hampden lies on the slopes of the Chiltern Hills, the greatest height being 711 ft. … school at Thame, and in 1609 became a commoner of Magdalen College, Oxford. 44 In 1613 he was admitted a student of the …