The Oxford-Burcot Commission was the first commission concerned with the management of the River Thames, appointed by an act of Parliament, the Thames...
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centuries The first commission concerned with the River Thames was the Oxford-Burcot Commission, appointed in the Thames Commission of Sewers Act 1605...
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Oxford was historically an important port on the River Thames, with this section of the river being called the Isis; the Oxford-Burcot Commission in...
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southern outskirts of Oxford. The original lock was built by the Oxford-Burcot Commission in 1631 and the Thames Navigation Commission replaced this in 1793...
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Original Iffley Lock built as a pound lock on the Thames by the Oxford-Burcot Commission. 1634 13 May: Construction of new university Convocation House...
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Burcot, so that goods for Oxford had to be unloaded at Burcot and taken on by road. This led in 1605 to the formation of the Oxford-Burcot Commission...
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Sandford-on-Thames which is just south of Oxford. The first pound lock was built in 1631 by the Oxford-Burcot Commission although this has since been rebuilt...
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was the Oxford-Burcot Commission, formed in 1605 to make the river navigable between Burcot and Oxford. In 1751 the Thames Navigation Commission was formed...
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established the Oxford-Burcot Commission, which began to improve the system of locks and weirs on the River Thames, which were opened between Oxford and Abingdon...
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built in the 17th century, following the establishment of the Oxford-Burcot Commission. However, efforts to improve the stretch of the river through Staines...
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built in the 17th century, following the establishment of the Oxford-Burcot Commission. However, efforts to improve the stretch of the river through Weybridge...
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navigation and lock building was the Oxford-Burcot Commission, which built the locks at Iffley and Sandford below Oxford in 1633 and at Swift Ditch near Abingdon...
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The Oxford-Burcot Commission, appointed by James I in an Act of Parliament in 1605, was an attempt to manage the river. In 1630 the commission built...
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in England. Iffley, Sandford and Culham locks were built by the Oxford-Burcot Commission following the Thames Navigation Act 1623 (21 Jas. 1. c. 32). The...
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severely damaged trade at Wallingford. In the early 17th century the Oxford-Burcot Commission constructed a lock at the top of Swift Ditch to direct navigation...
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decay. An Oxford-Burcot Commission was established by Acts of 1605 and 1624 to improve the river between Oxford and Burcot. The commission did not make...
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Puleston of Emral, Flintshire, by Alice, his wife, daughter of David Lewis of Burcot in Oxfordshire. He was a member of the Middle Temple, and reader of his...
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10th century. A pound lock was built on the Swift Ditch by the Oxford-Burcot Commission in 1635 making it then the navigation route. In 1788 several citizens...
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period it was known as Swift Ditch, remaining the faster route. The Oxford-Burcot Commission of 1605 and 1624 sought to develop the Swift Ditch as the main...
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on 17 November 1968 at a care home run by his brother-in-law, at Burcot, near Oxford. He was buried in the churchyard of St Mary's in the village of Burpham...
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composition – South East". Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 13 June 2024. "Didcot and Wantage CC" (PDF). Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 7 July...
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the downstream limit of improvement works undertaken by the 1605 Oxford-Burcot Commission. In Thomas Baskerville's travel journal of 1692 he notes "At Clifton...
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of Abingdon-on-Thames and areas to the west of Oxford being included in the new constituency of Oxford West and Abingdon. The first MP for Wantage was...
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parish in South Oxfordshire, England, located 15 miles (24 km) south of Oxford, 10 miles (16 km) east of Wantage and 15 miles (24 km) north west of Reading...
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the north, close to Oxford; they are predominantly rural. List of parliamentary constituencies in Oxfordshire Boundary Commission for England Fifth Periodic...
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the public service and he and his wife Joy moved to the village of Burcot, near Oxford. Later he moved to an old country house in Surrey and in 1986 his...
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Radio Oxford, BBC Radio Berkshire (covering Henley-on-Thames), Heart Thames Valley, and Jack FM. Local newspapers are Oxfordshire Guardian, Oxford Mail...
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East". Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 12 June 2024. "South East | Boundary Commission for England". Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved...
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no. 200581". Charity Commission for England and Wales. "God's House in Ewelme: Trustees' Report and Accounts". Charity Commission. 31 December 2020. p...
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2008). "Kranich, Burchard [known as Dr Burcot] (d. 1578)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/52152...
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