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A History of the County of Berkshire
… Purlew (xvi cent.). Purley Hall: Garden Front The parish of Purley lies to the west of Pangbourne and is bounded on … 116 but passed, probably in the 14th century, to the college of St. Edmund in Salisbury. 117 It was taken into the … s. 3 d. and paid a pension of 20 s. to the provost of the college. In 1595 the church was described as 'a parsonage …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Pusey is a small parish containing only 1,040 acres, of which two-thirds are arable land and the rest permanent … grass and woods and plantations. 1 The northern boundary of the parish is formed by the road from Faringdon to … Sir William Reynell Anson, bart., warden of All Souls' College, Oxford, and author of several legal and historical …
A History of the County of Surrey
… cent.); Pottnie, Puttney (xvii cent.). The suburban parish of Putney, a ward within the metropolitan borough of … known as The Cedar Houses. From about 1839 to 1857 a college for civil engineers, founded by subscription, existed … disfavour. He died in 1533. West was a scholar of King's College, Cambridge, took orders, and in 1515 was made Bishop …
A History of the County of Hertford
… cent.); Puttnam, Puttingham (xix cent.). The little parish of Puttenham lies on the Aylesbury plain. It is bordered on … The surface is quite flat and unbroken except by rows of willows and poplars which grow along the sides of the … copy of the work is now in the Grenville Library at the British Museum. Saunders. Party cheveronwise sable and argent …
A History of the County of Surrey
… (xiii cent.). Puttenham is a village on the south side of the Hog's Back, 4 miles west of Guildford, 5 miles east of … below is within missile range of the entrenchment. Romano-British pottery and a rude pavement were found near this, to … Waynflete's influence added to the foundation of Magdalen College in 1484. 56 Thomas Lusher was tenant of some …
A History of the County of Sussex
… long deep coombe to reach the sea at Brighton. The parish of Pyecombe covers an irregularly shaped area, 2,286 acres in extent, inclosing the head of this coombe and the Downs to east and west. In the … field systems. Among these has been found a late Romano-British settlement, originally approached by a deeply sunken …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Parishes Pyrton PYRTON The ancient parish of Pyrton stretched for about 12 miles diagonally between the … and Thomas Tipping in 1688. 58 In Tipping's lease Magdalen College stipulated that he was to inhabit the place four … of Oxon. Confirmation Order, Local Gov. Bd. 34646; Min. of Health, Co. of Oxon. Confirm. Order (1922), 67810. Census, …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… and the Wiltshire border. The soil is light and friable, of the secondary chalk formation, and the subsoil is chalk. 1 … by the hospital are recorded, followed by four by Eton College, 18 which had a conceivable claim under the terms of … Amport). In 1906 the sum of 20 received from Magdalen College, Oxford, was applied in the distribution of coals …
Magna Britannia
… Cruetheke,) in the deanery and in the middle division of the hundred of East, lies four miles nearly east of Liskeard, which is … of Ruan-Lanihorne is in the patronage of Corpus-Christi College in Oxford. Ruan-Major RUAN-MAJOR, in the deanery and …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Radley RADLEY Radelea, Radclege (xii cent.). The parish of Radley included in 1831 the 'liberty' of Thrupp and Wick … upon this house as a suitable building for St. Peter's College. Radley Hall is a square Georgian building with a … for twenty-one years, this time to the founders of Radley College. 54 The lease was renewed to run till 1910, but in …