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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… At the entrance to the rectory-house is one of the old crosses with which this part of the country abounds. … site of an ancient ville of some consequence. Withington, Old WITHINGTON, OLD, a township, in the parish of Prestbury, union and …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… In 1811 the villa site is said to have been called 'the old town'; an alternative name was 'Withington upon …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… gabled heads. The Roof of the nave may incorporate some old timbers. Between it and the chancel is a truss, perhaps … moulded; against W. face side-posts, perhaps modern, with old traceried and foliated spandrels supporting a moulded … altered. b(23). Cottage, on the S. side of the road at Old Grove, 600 yards E.S.E. of the church, has a thatched …
A History of the County of Oxford
… town's Freeland estate charity, 1 together with sale of old materials; the new cottages were let at their full value … a 3 s. allowance; applicants had to be at least 50 years old, with preference still given to blanket-workers, but were … of 1832 ruled that inmates should be at least 50 years old and should belong to a Christian church professing …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the sites's subsequent expansion is detailed above. 46 The old mill straddling the mill stream, called the 'front mill', … in 1896 but burnt in 1905, and only partly rebuilt. The old fulling mill on the north bank of the mill stream, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney industry employed at least 3,000 poor 'from 8 years old to decrepit old age', a figure which, given his assertion that they …
A History of the County of Oxford
… century. By the 1790s they were apparently held on the old-style dates (10 July and 4 December), or on a Thursday … Kelly's Dir. Oxon. (1939); C. Mitchell, Around Witney in Old Photos. (1990), 101. Oxf. Jnl. 17 Aug. 1811; PO Dir. … copy in Bodl. GA Oxon. c 256 (55). T. Worley, Witney in Old Photos. (1987), 823; above, Fig. 47. ORO, Witney UDC …
A History of the County of Oxford
… southern end at Farm Mill, possibly the site of the 'old ford' mentioned in the 14th century: the line of Corn … station for the extended line was built south-west of the old one, which became an enlarged goods depot. 95 Throughout … Housing development around Burwell Farm, south-west of the old town beyond the Ducklington road, began in the early …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Other possibly timber-framed buildings known from old views include the former corn returns office on the site … had window-glass in his hall and the chamber over it, in old and new parlours and the chamber over the latter, in chambers over the entry, in the old and new buttery, and in the gallery, study and stairs. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… from the early 18th century. 164 Probably that was the 'old lock-up' condemned in 1852 as 'the Black Hole of Calcutta … police station with cells and a court room. 166 The 'old blindhouse', presumably that at the town hall, was … (15 s. a head), though by 1835, the last year under the old poor law, it had fallen back to 1,808. 202 In the mid …