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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Park estate, given by Charles Shipphard in 1779. Water-Crook, a place so called from a bend of the river, was the … this was probably an exploratory camp to Water Crook. It is in sight of the beacon on Warton-Crag, which …
Newington (Including Berrick Prior, Britwell Prior, Brookhampton, Holcombe)
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… 1 Farming in Britwell Prior was dominated initially by the Crook family as tenants under Newington manor, with sheep, … From 1600 the family held under Britwell Prior manor, John Crook (d. 1619) leaving goods worth 288, of which 133 was in … of the Newington demesne by 1516), 20 or the Bisley and Crook families, leading farmers in Holcombe and Britwell …