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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… The Enclosure Map shows three fields, Nether, Windmill and Wood Fields. An earlier map (NRO, Map of 1774) shows the same fields, but marks Wood Field as Upper Field at that date. There were old …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 660 acres, of which 340 are arable, 253 pasture, and 60 wood and plantation. Wolterton Hall, the seat of the Earl of … at the sole expense of Miss Hinckes, of Tettenhall-Wood. The edifice is in the early English style, with a … 1439 acres, of which 772 are arable, 276 pasture, 223 wood, and 88 common. The soil consists in general of clay …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… one car. seven sochm. four vill. having four car. small wood, one leuc. long, one qu. broad. In King Edward the … Roger de Morteyn, granted and assigned fourscore acres of Wood in Wollaton, and the advowsons of the Churches of … Northamptonshire. Another was Frances, wife of Mountague Wood of Lamley. Sir Francis Willoughby had another wife, …
A Dictionary of London
… that this=Wolsies lane. Wolsieslane See Wolsies Gate. Wood and Co.'s Wharf On the Thames at the south end of … Royal Hotel (De Keyser's) Buildings, Victoria Embankment. Wood Green Court South-east out of Harrow Alley, Middlesex … erection of the City of London Artizans' Dwellings (q.v.). Wood Street North out of Cheapside, at No.122, to London Wall …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of Wolvercote. In 1685 the curate received the tithe of hay, livestock, and the mills. 19 Catherine Rawson, by will … repairs to the chapel, for in 1657 the antiquary Anthony Wood assumed that he had built it. After Walter's death in … (1711), 82-3. Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii. 175. Bodl. MS. Wood D 2, p. 46b. O.R.O., MSS. Wills Oxon. 184, f. 28v.; 189, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… acres in Pixey and 25 in South Mead, both commonable after hay harvest, and 31 a. in small inclosed meadows or hams …
A History of the County of Oxford
… been carried out soon after the Dissolution, for Anthony Wood remembered a song about the breaking of Godstow bridge … include a good terrace (nos. 1-7) of rubble cottages with wood lintels. Other 19th-century houses, mostly of brick, are … popular with undergraduates and Oxford citizens. Anthony Wood recorded visits to alehouses at Cutteslowe and Godstow …
A History of the County of Oxford
… iv. 412; Protestation Return, 96; Par. Colln. 354. Anthony Wood's statement ( Wood's Life, i. 419) that Reynolds left Wolvercote property …
A History of the County of Oxford
… late 15th-century, building survived in 1984. Anthony Wood identified it as the chapel of St. Leonard and recorded … Intro. Bodl. MS. Rawl. B 408, before f. 1: reproduced in Wood's Life, i (O.H.S. xix), facing p. 346; ibid. MS. Gough … between pp. 64 & 65; ibid. MS. Top. Oxon. b 123, f. 66; Wood's Life, i. 338-9, 344-6; Hearne's Colln. ii (O.H.S. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… passes for four miles and a half through the parish. The Wood House, a noble mansion in the Elizabethan style, … 4388 acres, of which 2495 are arable, 585 meadow, 507 wood, and the rest common. The surface is hilly towards the … Church estate, is principally distributed among the poor. Wood, or Woodchurch WOOD, or Woodchurch, a ville, and member …