Edward Cassey and Co.'s History, Gazetteer and Directory of Berkshire and Oxfordshire, with an Excellent Map of Each Countyproprietors, 1868 - 278 ページ |
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Abingdon acreage acres Aldate's street Alfred ancient annual value baker Banbury Bath street beer retailer Bell Berks Bicester blacksmith boot and shoemaker Bridge street Broad street builder butcher carpenter Castle street chancel chapel Charles Chipping Norton church of St Clement's Clerk College Corn Market street Cowley road dealer diocese of Oxford dispatched draper East Edward Faringdon farm farmer Frederick Friar street George gift grocer Hall hamlet Henry High st High street hill Holywell street hundred Iffley road James John Joseph lane Letters arrive living London street lord maker manor Market place Mary merchant miles miller Miss Neithrop Newbury North Ock street Park Peascod street perpetual curacy plumber population in 1861 Queen rectory residence Richard Robert Samuel shoemaker shopkeeper St Aldate's St Ebbe's stone tailor terrace Tetsworth Thames Thomas tower town union vicarage village and parish Wallingford Walton street Wantage wheelwright William Windsor Witney
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212 ページ - Its dimensions occupy about an acre of ground ; and its shape is determined by hollowed lines, which are trenches cut in the white chalk, between two and three feet deep, and about ten broad. The head, neck, body, and tail, are composed of one line varying in width ; and one line, or trench, has also been made for each of the legs. The chalk in the hollowed spaces being of a brighter color than the turf that surrounds it, catches the rays of the sun, and renders the figure visible at several miles...
151 ページ - This was again suppressed in 1545 ; and in the year following the Episcopal See was removed from Osney to this College, and the Church of St. Frideswide was constituted a Cathedral, by the name of the Cathedral Church of Christ in Oxford, for the maintenance of a Dean, eight Canons, eight Chaplains...
15 ページ - The living is a vicarage, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield, valued in the king's books at £40.
136 ページ - We have no disgusting monotonous break of the horizontal line, as in the views of Rome from a similar eminence ; where are domes infinitely repeated, from the immensity of St. Peter's, to the diminutive cupola of a convent. From the second hill in Bagley wood, the landscape is fore-shortened ; with Christ Church hall as the principal object, and Magdalene tower, to the east. From Headington Hill, Iffley and Nuneham, the great features change their position, without losing their beauty.
104 ページ - Horse, and was once a populous and thriving market town, and one of the seats of the cloth manufacture. Several privileges were conferred upon it by a charter of Henry VI. The stewardship of the King's Manor in this parish is a nominal office, in the gift of the Chancellor of...
56 ページ - It has • spacious market place, in the centre of which is the old shire hall. St. Mary's, the old church, contains several monuments, is spacious, and is supposed to have been erected in the time of Edward III. It has a square buttressed tower 180 feet high. Here are also meeting-houses, richly endowed almshouses, a customhouse, a small theatre, and barracks, dock-yards, &c. Woodbridge is a place of considerable trade, exporting corn, malt, and flour, and importing coal, timber, and general merchandize.
240 ページ - The Dobuni inhabited Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire. Their name seems to be derived from Duffen, a British word signifying deep or low, because inhabiting for the most part a plain, and valleys encompassed with hills. And I am the more induced to be of this opinion, because I find that Dion calls these people by a word of the same signification, Bodunni, if there is not a transposition of the letters. For Bodo, or Bodun, in the antient language of the Gauls, as Pliny informs us, doth signify Deep.
148 ページ - ISO/, per annum to the Librarian, 100/. per annum for the purchase of books, and 1001. per annum to keep the Library in repair.* Dr. RadclifFe proposed, in his lifetime, to enlarge the Bodleian Library, by a room 90 feet long, built out from the west window of the Selden Library. Of this building the...
28 ページ - Faringdon Hill." On reference to the " Magna Britannia" of Messrs. Lysons, I find, in their History of Berks, the following passage : " Near Uffington Castle (an ancient camp) is the rude figure of a horse, which gives name to the hill, formed by cutting away the turf; this appears to be of great antiquity, and more likely to have been a work of the Britons than, as it has been usually supposed, a memorial for Alfred's victory over the Danes : the figure of a horse, a good deal resembling that above-mentioned,...
2 ページ - Reading, and a body of the king's troops, under Prince Rupert and General Ruthven, who attempted to relieve the town ; and about two months after occurred the skirmish of Chalgrove Field, near Watlington.