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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Fig. 212 Woodnewton Village Map Woodnewton is a parish of 565 hectares in the Forest of Rockingham. The village lies on the N. side of Willow Brook and consists of a single street with a back …
A History of the County of Oxford
… survived until the 1930s. They were listed in a survey of 1279 and as 'the king's rents' in 1468-9. 48 Later the … their arrangement was partly topographical, as was that of the late 18th-century land tax assessments and the census … no. 16. 85 No. 14 was a private school under the name of Hope House in the 1840s and early 1850s, 86 and was taken …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Development of the town Development of the town New Woodstock developed at a gate into the royal … houses. 21 The most clearly Vanbrughian in style are Hope House (no. 14 Oxford Street), built in 1708, and the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… its original market, 66 but it remained a small community of tradesmen, craftsmen, and royal servants. Service in the … other names were derived from the building crafts of mason, carpenter, thatcher, and slater, the metal crafts … at no. 10 Oxford Street before moving in the 1850s to Hope House (no. 14), where they used the former malthouse …
A History of the County of Oxford
… dame schools; it was a popular place for boarding schools, of which some took day pupils. The rector, although a keen … and in 1831 that 'scarcely any residents lacked the means of education'. 85 Continued failure to respond to national … the mid 1840s. 59 There was a girls' boarding school at Hope House in 1846 and until 1850. 60 Hensington House was a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was at Woodstock Park, which he visited regularly for love of Rosamund Clifford; he therefore provided land outside the … respectively; music was provided by the Oxford Yeomanry band and the Woodstock Drum and Fife band. 79 In the later 19th century branches of national …
A History of the County of Oxford
… as a borough in the early 14th century. 78 The development of self-government was only gradual, for the vill was merely one of several 'members' of the royal manor of Woodstock, whose … began to buy national lottery tickets in the vain hope of financing a new town hall. 91 Loans from councillors …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 86 all seem to have been residents and two were members of the prominent Bennet family. 87 The borough charter of 1453 freed Woodstock from the burden of representation 88 … clerk, the recorder, and the rector, Joseph Bowles; 21 a hope was expressed in 1840 that under the new duke 'the old …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… (O.S. 6 in. II S.E.). Woodstone is a parish on the S. side of the Nene. The northern part forms a suburb of and is annexed to the borough of Peterborough. Roman (1). … rest modern. Plate: includes cup (Plate 136) of 1569 with band of engraved ornament; cover-paten of same date and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… 6 ins. aSY 88 NW, bSY 88 NE, SY 89 SW) The modern parish of Wool, 5 m. W. of Wareham, covers some 3,000 acres on both sides of the … later than the main building. The E. front has a plat-band at first-floor level, central entrance and double-hung …