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A History of the County of Sussex
… Church CHURCH. There was a church in 1086, 77 and by the mid 1220s the benefice was a rectory. 78 From 1958 it was … with his own money 'to make it of a doghole a habitation for a man'. 94 Between 1711 and 1724 it was again 'beautified … in the 1670s, the churchwardens presenting him in 1679 for, among other things, not wearing canonical habit, not …
A History of the County of Sussex
… government LOCAL GOVERNMENT. Pleas and perquisites at the Woodmancote manor court were worth 3 s. 4 d. a year in 1339. 67 There are court rolls for the years 1341, 68 1680, 1698, and 1721-1935. Only eleven … was held at Woodmancote Place, and in 1800 and 1803 at the Royal Oak inn in Shermanbury. A reeve was mentioned in 1680 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Village Map Woodnewton is a parish of 565 hectares in the Forest of Rockingham. The village lies on the N. side of … 1673 the village appears to have been socially depressed, for it had a high proportion of families rated at one hearth … those on the ground floor with round heads enclosing blind tympana. There is a platband at ground-floor sill …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1:3,348 (approx. 19 in. to 1 mile). Quitrents imposed on the town's original burgages survived until the 1930s. They … listed them annually with its other rents. Rentals survive for 1598, 1602, 1609-18, 1652, 1654, 1684, and for most years … of c. 1874 on Oxford Street included on the north the Royal Assembly Rooms, for long one of the town's principal …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Church Church. The church, of which the south doorway is of the 12th … with Bladon parishioners over Woodstock's responsibility for repairs to Bladon church and churchyard, 37 presumably … Woodstock chapel. Besides chapels and chantries in the royal manor house 69 there were chapels in Hensington and …
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 park. The town's curving west boundary perhaps … until the 15th century. 93 The original town was smaller, for there was growth in the 13th century and early 14th. In …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Economic history Economic history In the century after its foundation the town prospered, … it remained a small community of tradesmen, craftsmen, and royal servants. Service in the park and household is denoted … a chapman, a harper, and a potter. Evidence adduced for a substantial pottery industry in Woodstock is weak, 68 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… New Woodstock was founded by Henry II to provide lodgings for his retinue when he was at Woodstock Park, which he … of Rosamund Clifford; he therefore provided land outside the park so that men might build hospitia, and he granted a … plateau on the edge of the Glyme valley opposite the royal palace, was said to have been vacant when the town was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… TO 1886.When New Woodstock was incorporated in 1453 75 the borough and its customs were ancient. The plots laid out … 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 bailiff was accountable for …
A History of the County of Oxford
… WOODSTOCK lies 8 miles (12 km.) north-west of Oxford on the river Glyme close to the east side of Blenheim Park. 1 … (place in the woods) 3 may have applied first to a royal hunting lodge established on the edge of Wychwood … is also treated separately below. Principal maps used for this article were O.S. Maps 1/2,500, Oxon. XXVI. 8 (1876 …