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A History of the County of Oxford
… 6 d. and children 2 s. 95 Part of the land was sold to the railway companies in the 1850s and the proceeds invested in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… who held 1 ¼ yardland and whose family had farmed the great tithes since 1533. His son Edmund sold the property in … mill. In 1841 the mill employed 19 people from the parish. Railway building in the early 1850s accounted for the 74 … brickworks were opened by the Oxford and Berkshire Brick Co. on a site off Five Mile Drive in 1869; by 1871 they were …
A History of the County of Oxford
… abbey as an extra-parochial area, altered the southern and western boundaries of Wolvercote substantially. Godstow was … extra-parochial areas of Godstow and Pixey mead The western part of the ancient parish lies on the alluvium of … to join the Thames above King's Weir. 84 The Oxford-Rugby railway line was built through the parish in 1846, and the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to Worcester College, which still held it in 1984. 85 The great tithes of Wolvercote passed to Merton College when the … at inclosure in 1834 the college was allotted c. 73 a. for great tithes; 87 it retained most of the land in 1984. The …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the Nappers of Holywell, freeholders and farmers of the great tithes of Wolvercote. Cheriton refused the protestation …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and descended in his family until 1702 when Sir John's great-grandson, another Sir John Walter, sold Godstow to … brothers recorded in the late 13th century. 41 Near the western end of the range was St. Thomas's chapel, which seems … remaining part of the west appeared to be medieval. 60 The western part of the north wall, which incorporated the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in the patronage of Lord Grantley, the impropriator: the great tithes have been commuted for 700, and those of the … a township, in the parish of Shotwick, union of Great Boughton, Higher division of the hundred of Wirrall, S. … books at 6; patron and impropriator, J. Cator, Esq. The great tithes have been commuted for 292. 3., and the vicarial …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… x, xiv; P.O. Dir. Salop. (1870), 118; I.G.M.T., Lilleshall Co. colln. 405. Cartlidge and Kidson, op. cit. p. xi. Ibid. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Queensway, partly built along the former Coalport branch railway, opened northwards to the Hollinswood interchange in … through into the underlying Wellington- Wolverhampton railway in 1855, draining the summit level and flooding … of Oakengates. 85 In 1857 the Coalport Branch Railway Co. (later L.N.W.R.) obtained permission to buy the decaying …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… because of increasing unprofitability, the Lilleshall Co. leased out its Woodhouse and Priorslee farms, which until … in 1878 when John Maddock & Co. was founded. At the firm's Great Western Nail Works a wide variety of malleable iron products …