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A History of the County of Oxford
… and the right to deliver and return royal writs, the king's officers being forbidden entry into the bishop's manors except in connection with Crown pleas. 1 In 1284 the … drainage poured from a brick barrel drain into an open ditch, long remained a 'filthy nuisance'. 249 In 1874, after …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Manor and Manor House ('Bishop's Palace') MANOR AND MANOR HOUSE ('BISHOP'S PALACE') Witney Manor In 969 King Eadgar gave the 30-hide … walls were rendered. 42 A moat, replacing the earlier ditch, was created probably in the later 12th century, its …
A History of the County of Essex
… third highest in Lexden hundred, 20 reflecting Wivenhoe's growth as a port whose develop- ment was linked with the … with most of the south of Wivenhoe being the lord's demesne except for a considerable amount of copyhold land … parish extending into Cockaynes in Elmstead. 24 St. John's abbey, Colchester, owned 120 a. called Withemorhad and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… Wolferlow 94 WOLFERLOW (D.a.) (O.S. 6 in. XIV, N.W.) Wolferlow is a parish on the N.E. border … (1). Parish Church of St. Andrew stands in the S.E. part of the parish. The walls are of local sandstone … rectangular enclosures W. and N.W. of the church, and a ditch running S. from the terrace. They would appear to …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… SP 96 SW) The parish, covering around 1145 hectares, lies S. of Wellingborough between the R. Nene which forms its N.W. … (SP 907627; Beds. Arch. J., 7 (1972), 967). a(1) Ring Ditch (SP 89536468), in the N.W. of the parish, on alluvium … of the internal walls still visible. Immediately to the S.E. a series of circular structures is also visible, while …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Wolvercote Economic history Economic history St. Frideswide's estate at Cutteslowe was administered independently of … much of its demesne land in Wolvercote and St. Giles's parish into a single block of land straddling the parish … in return for land at Ailmerswell, Horestone, and Hawsland ditch in the north end of St. Giles's, Godstow gave to St. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… extra-parochial areas of Godstow, Cutteslowe, King's Weir, and Pixey Mead were incorporated in the later 19th … and North Oxford. The extra-parochial areas of King's Weir (0.09 a.) and Pixey Mead (51 a.), which was then … been between Upper and Lower Wolvercote where a drainage ditch or ditches ran south from Wolvercote Leys to Wolvercote …
A History of the County of Oxford
… royal bailiff had entry into the manor only by the king's writ. The abbey also had rights of toll, pleas and … held courts until 1651 or later. 96 St. Frideswide's priory had view of frankpledge at Cutteslowe. 97 In the … an average of £74 between 1783 and 1785, and £299, c. 16 s. per head of population, in 1803. The highest expenditure …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by John of St. John. The site was enlarged in 1139 by John's grant of a further piece of land in front of the church (or … probably the site across Godstow bridge on which the abbey's grange was later built. 30 At the Dissolution the site was granted to Henry VIII's physician, George Owen. 31 It was sold, with the rest of …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 32 It was sold in 1864 to the Oakengates and St. George's Gas and Water Co. Ltd., 33 which was in turn bought by the … abandonment of a major scheme of 1904. The Lilleshall Co.'s supply was transferred to the U.D.C. between 1901 and 1918; … from 1913 it included water from the duke of Sutherland's Redhill reservoir fed from Hilton (Staffs.). 39 For a time, …