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A History of the County of Oxford
… Blenheim Park to 1705 Park to 1705 A park around the king's houses may have been defined before 1086 when … asserted that Henry I built the first park wall c. 1110, and within its circuit of 7 miles kept beasts of the chase … e.g. Blenheim Mun., box 132, annotated copy ( c. 1644) of survey of 1579; ibid. rental of c. 1560; P.R.O., E …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Blenheim The King's houses The King's houses Royal interest in the … bank of the river Glyme, just within Wychwood forest 43 and probably within the bounds of a large preConquest royal … map of 1719 or other evidence. Below, Pk. from 1705. Short Survey of 26 Counties, ed. L. G. Wickham Legg, 118. Bodl. MS. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Blenheim Woodstock manor Woodstock Manor. The medieval king's houses and park at Woodstock formed part of a conglomerate royal … in his keepership in 1379 at the old farm, even though a survey had valued the manor at c. £217. 63 From 1382 the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… with Kirkland BLENNERHASSET, with Kirkland, a township, in the parish of Torpenhow, union of Wigton, Allerdale ward … (St. Mary) BLETCHINGLEY ( St. Mary), a parish, and formerly a borough and market-town, in the union of … Haywood-Oaks, 1154 inhabitants. At the time of the Norman survey this formed a berewic to Oxton, and in the 3rd of …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Blidworth, Bludword Blidworth, Bludword. The Book of Doomsday shews that the Archbishop of York, before the … Archbishop Thomas had five Villains, having two Car. and one Mill which was in Ludham, Pasture Wood three leuc. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Blisworth 7 BLISWORTH (OS 1:10000 a SP 75 NW, b SP 75 SW) The parish is of irregular shape, covering almost 800 … is a rather flat area of Upper Lias Clay, glacial sands and gravels and alluvium, all at about 84 m. above OD, but … parish (VCH Northants., I (1902), 216; T. J. George, Arch. Survey of Northants. (1904), 10). Worked flints are also …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Blith. Blide BLITH. BLIDE. I Find little of Blyth in the book of Doomsday, saving that here was soc to … one bov. . ad Geldam. 1 The land one car. There four vill. and four bord. had one car. and one acre of medow. and that …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Blofield Hundred Blofield BLOFIELD. This town was, at the survey, one entire lordship, possessed by William de Beaufoe … Stigand's brother) was lord in King Edward's reign, and part of the Conqueror's, till deprived in 1070. He is …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… BOKENHAM-FERRY Takes its name from its site on the river Yar, over which there is a ferry here. Bo and Ken bespeak a winding or bending stream of water. At the survey, there were three lordships in this town; the …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… de Beaufoe Bishop of Thetford held this town in fee at the survey, of which Edric, a freeman, and captain of King Edward the Confessor's ship, was …