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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Margaret) WOODHALL ( St. Margaret), a parish, in the union of Horncastle, S. division of the wapentake of Gartree, parts of Lindsey, county of … cottages; the road to Morpeth branches off from it in one direction by Bothal and Pegsworth, and in another by …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… N.E.) Secular (1). Homestead Moat, near a stream N.W. of Akeman Street Station. (2). Collett Farm, W. of (1), about 3 miles W.S.W. of Quainton Church, is a house … rails and panels of the frieze is an inscription in large letters, but parts of it are missing. ConditionPoor; the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… S.E.) Woodham Ferrers is a parish and village 6 m. S.W. of Maldon. The church, Bicknacre Priory and Edwin's Hall are … principal monuments. Ecclesiastical b(1). Parish Church of St. Mary stands at the S. end of the village. The walls are of mixed rubble with dressings …
A History of the County of Sussex
… and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. The manor of WOODMANCOTE was held in 1066 by Countess Guda, and in 1086 of William de Braose by William son of Rannulf, 35 who also held Southwick. 36 It continued …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Fig. 212 Woodnewton 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 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Church Church. The church, of which the south doorway is of the 12th century, was presumably established when the … within Bladon parish and its church remained a chapel of ease, although rarely called a chapel after the 17th …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Development of the town Development of the town New Woodstock developed at a gate into the royal … town's curving west boundary perhaps represents the line of the 12th-century park wall but the straight south boundary …
A History of the County of Oxford
… its original market, 66 but it remained a small community of tradesmen, craftsmen, and royal servants. Service in the … other names were derived from the building crafts of mason, carpenter, thatcher, and slater, the metal crafts of smith, ironmonger, and plumber, the textile crafts of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… dame schools; it was a popular place for boarding schools, of which some took day pupils. The rector, although a keen … and in 1831 that 'scarcely any residents lacked the means of education'. 85 Continued failure to respond to national … in educational provision for the poor. 86 The opening of an infants' school in 1840 and, belatedly, of a National …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was at Woodstock Park, which he visited regularly for love of Rosamund Clifford; he therefore provided land outside the … Brown-Grant. Wood's Life and Times, ii (O.H.S. xxi), 465; Letters of H. Prideaux (Camd. Soc. 2nd ser. xv), 97-8. e.g. … 27 Mar. 1780, 16 Dec. 1782; B.L. Add. MS. 61680, f. 120. Letters of Josiah Wedgwood, ed. K. E. Farrer, i. 66. Below, …