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A History of the County of Oxford
… by the Bladon inclosure award of 1766, the only titheable land within the borough was the corporation meadows and three … passed to the corporation with the gift of former chantry land in 1565. 26 For most of St. John's incumbency the … in Woodstock, including the George inn, and houses or land in Old Woodstock, Woodeaton, South Weston, Hensington, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and closed in the 1950s. By the 1930s scarcity of building land obliged the council to acquire sites outside the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… wine; 1 he, too, was associated with Leonard Chamberlain's land transactions and owned several Woodstock houses, … Jnl. 2, 16 Apr. 1842. Blenheim Mun., box 130: deeds of land bought fron P.O. Dir. Oxon. (1847); Gardner, Dir. Oxon. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and in 1738 his heirs, in fulfilment of his wishes, bought land in Arncott yielding £36 a year of which £17 was to be … of £60 was devoted to the Cocks's Educational Fund. The land was sold in 1946 when the invested income produced c £50 … Bowles, rector 1840-7, raised subscriptions and negotiated land for a National school, but quarrels with the duke seem …
A History of the County of Oxford
… for love of Rosamund Clifford; he therefore provided land outside the park so that men might build hospitia, and … of Woodstock claimed that Henry had enfeoffed them with land for their vill acquired by exchange from the Templars' … granted by the Crown. 16 As late as 1750 a triangle of land at the junction of Brook Hill and Upper Brook Hill …
A History of the County of Oxford
… mayor, was using his official seal even to authenticate land transactions outside the borough. 91 Mayors were … 12 The rent (4 6 s. 8 d. after the deduction of land tax) was paid throughout the life of the old … of the common seal, and sales of timber from corporation land. The income included c. 13 a year from the school …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of the chapel in 1851. 68 A chapel was built in 1824-5 on land on the west side of Oxford Street acquired by Daniel …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and pasture, and 400 heath; the soil of the cultivated land is fertile. From a copious spring at the head of the … who has about half an acre of glebe and 16 acres of other land, with a glebe-house recently erected. Here are places of … children are instructed for 16. 7. per annum, arising from land bequeathed by Nicholas Burley, and from the interest of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… E. of the parish. The N. part of the parish was always the land associated with Bovington, a small Domesday settlement …