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A History of the County of Worcester
… Parishes Stone STONE Stanes (xi and xiii cent.). The parish of Stone has an area of 2,516 acres, of which 17 acres are … from Chaddesley when that rectory was appropriated to the college of St. Mary, Warwick, and in 1535 it was a vicarage … were made by the dean until the dissolution of the college, 70 and the advowson of Stone was then apparently …
A History of the County of Oxford
… known for its roofing slates, lies 12 miles north-west of Oxford and 4 miles west of Woodstock on the river Evenlode, which touches the … many Stonesfield people emigrated to Canada, mostly to British Columbia. 32 Between 1951 and 1971, as the village …
A History of the County of Bedford
… Stodfald (xii cent.); Stotfeld (xiv cent). The parish of Stotfold has an area of 2,398 acres, of which 1,890 are … Dissolution this manor was granted by the crown to Trinity College, Cambridge. 51 The grant was confirmed by James I 52 … validity of the original grant having arisen, and Trinity College is still in possession. At the time of the Domesday …
A History of the County of Worcester
… lying between Worcester and Pershore and covering an area of 1,959 acres, of which the greater part is arable land, 961 acres being … first mentioned on the appropriation of that church to the college of Westbury in 1473. 74 It was not separately valued …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… market town lying on the Foss Way 19 miles north-east of Cirencester, and is the centre of the ancient parish, … became the north-west corner of the town, 24 where Romano-British and early Saxon remains have been unearthed. 25 The … had previously been made to the vestry. 522 To deal with health problems, the vestry in the 18th century kept a pest …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Parishes Stowood STOWOOD Stowood lies on either side of the old LondonWorcester road, 1 now a country road … St. John and Islip. The wood crowns a hill at the junction of this road with the Roman road from Dorchester to … in Folly farm and Royal Oak farm. In 1926 Brasenose College purchased the property from the Crown. 55 The ancient …
A History of the County of Durham
… (xvi cent.). This parish lies in the south-east corner of Durham. The boundaries of the old parish were on the east … in the same year, market day being Saturday. The Technical College was opened in 1896 and the Cameron Hospital in 1905. … sold the estate in 1831 to John Lord Eldon. 119 Merton College, Oxford, holds an estate in Seaton Carew which …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Stretfield, Stratfeld Mortymer (xiii cent.). The parish of Stratfield Mortimer lies on the Hampshire border. Mortimer … bearing a recut inscription to William Dring, of Queen's College, Oxford, a former vicar of this parish, who died in … 1444, 155 when it was granted with other lands to Eton College by Henry VI. 156 The Provost and Fellows of the …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… is a village and parish on the Berkshire border of the county, 3 miles south-east from Mortimer station on … rector, the Rev. Horace George Monro, M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge. Stratfieldsaye covers an area of 2,743 … apparent from various charters in the possession of Eton College, and from that circumstance it was called the manor …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Audley STRATTON AUDLEY This long and narrow parish of 2,308 acres lies two miles north-east of Bicester. 1 The … moat which may be on the site of an earlier Romano-British inclosure. 26 The angles of the castle's foundations … and used the material to build another house outside the college property. 133 The Bush family held the rectory …