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Page 182 - Berkshire side, is situated at the foot of a hill, on the summit of which...
Page 177 - The register dates from the year 1538. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £103, including 68 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of Mrs.
Page 99 - Abingdon, is situated on rising ground within easy distance of the Thames, 4^ miles from Oxford, and about a mile from the Radley station on the Great Western Railway. The design of the college is to give a thorough public school education to boys of the upper classes on the principles of the Church of England, and boys are admitted between the ages of io and 15.
Page 135 - The living is a vicarage, yearly value ¿300 with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford and held since 1877 by the Rev.
Page 154 - 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 sun's rays, and renders the whole figure visible at several miles...
Page 63 - This provision has been made the means of relieving a member from his trust, which he cannot resign, by his acceptance of the Stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds, a nominal office in the gift of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Page 63 - 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...
Page 50 - KCII., и. p. is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is chiefly clay ; subsoil clay.
Page 306 - Medows, esq., is lord of the manor and the principal landowner. The soil is light ; subsoil, chalk.
Page 64 - Sanford, esq., is lord of the manor and chief landowner. The soil is clay and sand; the subsoil, chiefly new red sandstone and conglomerate.