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A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Church Church. The church, of which the south doorway is of the 12th … by Henry II. The borough was created within Bladon parish and its church remained a chapel of ease, although rarely … Cook on his last voyage, of which he wrote the history while at Woodstock; 28 to George Coles (d. 1841), …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Development of the town Development of the town New Woodstock developed at a … marking out of a site, probably confined on the north and east by the road, later Oxford Street, to the Old … 3 d. or less, and of cottages usually 1 d. or ½ d. The survey of 1279 named 97 rent-payers, besides 15 tenants or …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Economic history Economic history In the century after its foundation … but it remained a small community of tradesmen, craftsmen, and royal servants. Service in the park and household is …
A History of the County of Oxford
… an early free grammar school, two small charity schools, and by the early 19th century several dame schools; it was a popular place for boarding schools, of which some took day pupils. The rector, although a keen …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of Rosamund Clifford; he therefore provided land outside the park so that men might build hospitia, and he granted a market to the new residents. 5 The story is … in the mid 16th and greatly influenced the town's later history. 71 An Act of 1576 making Woodstock a staple town …
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 at the … 5760. Blenheim Mun., map of Woodstock 1863 and associated survey, E/P/58; Boro. Mun. 114, pp. 3289; 1446: rentals …
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 The borough and market town, called formally New Woodstock until the 19th … Crown in 1705 to John Churchill, duke of Marlborough. The history of the park, an extraparochial place later Blenheim …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock sent two representatives to parliament in 1302 and two others in 1305; 86 all seem to have been residents and two were members of the prominent Bennet family. 87 The borough charter of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Protestant nonconformity Protestant Nonconformity The Presbyterian Thomas Whateley preached at Woodstock in the late 1660s, 55 and in 1672 Edward Miles and William Metcalfe applied for … was a registered meeting, probably Baptist, at the house of Samuel Wise, an Old Woodstock farmer, but in 1738 the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wookey (St. Matthew) WOOKEY ( St. Matthew), a parish, in the union of Wells, hundred of Wells-Forum, E. division of Somerset, 1 … (W.) from Wells; containing, with the tything of Yarley, and part of Wookey-Hole, 1187 inhabitants. The living is a …