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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… covers 2,594 acres in a broad strip of land extending from the R. Allen in the W. to the Dorset Heathlands in the E. … Beds, about 250 ft. above O.D. Further E. the land falls and the Chalk is soon overlain by Reading Beds and London … appears to have yielded four skeletons (G. A. Cooke, Topographical Description of Dorset ( c. 1818), 151). (29) …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Woodmancote WOODMANCOTE Woodmancote lies north of the South Downs and south-east of Henfield. 50 In 1881 it comprised 2,239 a. … 34 This article was written in 1984 and revised in 1986. Topographical details in introductory section based mainly on …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… - Woodyates, West Woodmancote WOODMANCOTE, a tything, in the parish of North Cerney, union of Winchcomb, hundred of … is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 13. 1. 10., and in the patronage of the Crown: the tithes have been … whose romantic adventures are so interwoven with the history of that monarch: Henry here received Rhs, Prince of …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Woodmancote Church CHURCH. There was a church in 1086, 77 and by the mid 1220s the benefice was a rectory. 78 From 1958 it was … in plurality with Albourne, 79 and in 1978 it became part of the united benefice of Henfield with Shermanbury and …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Woodmancote Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. There was one ploughteam on the Woodmancote manor demesne farm in 1086. 70 The farm had 114 a. in 1339 71 and 118 a. in 1434. 72 On the Morley manor demesne farm there …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Woodmancote Manors and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. The manor of WOODMANCOTE was held in 1066 by Countess Guda, … 70 possibly a relation of the former owners. The later history has not been traced. A manor house at Woodmancote was …
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 Willow Brook and consists of a single street with a back lane on the N. … of the copyholds of Wolston's holdings; comparison of the survey of 1574 (NRO, W(A) XVI.5) with the Enclosure Map of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… 51 WOODSFORD (7690) (O.S. 6 ins. aSY 78 NE, bSY 79 SE) The roughly rectangular parish of Woodsford, covering some 1,700 acres, lies on the S. side … ft. along the Frome. The S. half is all on Bagshot Beds and Plateau Gravel and is partly heathland while the N. is …
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 were listed in a survey of 1279 and as 'the king's rents' in 1468-9. 48 Later the corporation … from 1733. 50 Until 1764 their arrangement was partly topographical, as was that of the late 18th-century land tax …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Charities for the poor Charities for the Poor Municipal Charities. The … 1488). 77 In 1551 the corporation bought the chantry house and undertook to use it for three or four almsmen, but the … by ibid., draft deed of endowment 1795; ibid. E/P/58: survey 1863 and associated map, plot 159. Ibid. shelf G 1, …