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A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 7
… southern part, for which airfields in Kempsford and Brize Norton (Oxon.) provided employment and which came under the …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 7
… a pulpit dated 1658. The bells include one cast by Robert Norton of Exeter (fl. c. 14201460) and another by Thomas …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Brize Norton Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY Agriculture Open … in 1776 two open fields were associated with Brize Norton village, one on each side of the BurfordBampton road, … part of the parish and probably also between Brize Norton village and Astrop. It was presumably named after the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Brize Norton Introduction BRIZE NORTON The large, mainly rural parish of Brize Norton lies on the northern edge of the Thames valley, about …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Brize Norton Local government LOCAL GOVERNMENT Manor Courts Before … of Cornwall, as overlord, 1 transferred the suit of Brize Norton and Astrop from Bampton hundred court to his court of … suit every three weeks, while free tenants on both Brize Norton manors were required to attend view of frankpledge …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Brize Norton Manors and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES In the late Anglo-Saxon period Brize Norton almost certainly belonged to the large royal estate of … but by 1086 it contained two discrete manors, Brize Norton and Astrop, which were held by the same Norman tenant …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Brize Norton Religious history RELIGIOUS HISTORY In the Anglo-Saxon period Brize Norton presumably fell within the jurisdiction of Bampton's … in the 1760s there was a small Catholic community in Brize Norton. Quakers and several other Dissenters were briefly …
Broadwell Parish: Filkins
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… innkeepers. 4 As at Broadwell, Holwell, Burford, and Brize Norton there were significant amounts of malting: maltsters … beds. 1 Many other inhabitants worked at nearby RAF Brize Norton, or in the towns of Carterton and Swindon; even so, in …
Broadwell, Langford and Kelmscott: Cotswolds to Thames
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… that to Faringdon was severed by the extension of Brize Norton airfield in 1951, and is now relatively minor, still …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… "Est michi collatum Ihc istud nomen amatum"; 5th by Robert Norton of Exeter, early 15th-century and inscribed "Sancte …