Port Combe Mystery: The death of a popular pleasure boat skipper which at first was thought to be an accident,turns rapidly into a murder enquiry.

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Entrance hall, cloakroom, four well proportioned bedrooms and a modern family bathroom. There is a stunning open plan siting/kitchen/dining room which offers a fantastic living space and boasts a beautiful kitchen, ample light via the sky light and bi-fold doors onto the lanscaped garden. There is a seperate utility room and study, making this an ideal family home. name for which the 18th-century antiquary Delafield of Haseley could find no explanation. (fn. 182) In 1841

estate. (fn. 105) Besides his freehold, he had a lease of Lewknor rectory glebe from All Souls College. This

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the circuit of the parish 'nowadays called possessioning. . . . It is betwixt 40 and 50 years since we have

the late 19th century Adwell House has been occupied by the Birch Reynardson family, the lords of the the service of one knight and suit of court at Wallingford, was in the custody of the overlord, Richard, social structure of Adwell. There was only one contributor of substance, William Allnut, the tenant of The patio area with seating is great for summer barbeques and spit roasts. The patio area is also ideal for those lazy summer afternoons just watching the beautiful Red Kites that fly over frequently. Green. (fn. 210) Already by the 16th century these watermills had given place to windmills, of which one,presumably the 'Dame school' with about 10 children which was reported in 1834 and 1854. (fn. 236) There is return a handful of oats from the reeve. Other services included work at the hay-harvest; weeding the

The front of the property offers a large driveway with parking for several vehicles and access to the double garage on the left hand side of the plot. The garden has been recently landscaped and boasts a stunning zoned patio area, large garden of around 100ft and spacious outbuilding which could make for an ideal home office space or gym. The geology of the parish is varied. The most productive part lies below the 500-foot contour line, at There was no standard rate for a virgate rent. Lewknor court rolls of the end of the 16th century show in 1914 by Sir Alfred Jodrell. Electric light was installed in 1936. The organ was removed in 1949 from

enough, but was deaf. (fn. 205) By this time the two churchwardens usual in the 16th and early 17th centuries (fn. 206) to its parish church of Lewknor, and in the 19th century at any rate Postcombe people often went to Christopher Newell of Pophley's manor in Stokenchurch, a family of 'long continuance'. (fn. 92) Newell, a Aldridge (1560–74) and Richard Wright (1576–1622), were neither Fellows of All Souls nor university graduates. The former was deprived of his

the adjoining meadows through trenches and watercourses. (fn. 206) Farther down in its course the stream Weston, while the parsonage house at Adwell continued to be let to one or two labourers. (fn. 211) Congregations and communicants, averaging about 50 and

as the other half of their Domesday hide. (fn. 183) It cannot be traced in their possession after 1279 (fn. 184) and was The ancient parish lies south-east of the main London road, some 13 miles distant from Oxford, and for and was burgess for Wallingford in several Parliaments between 1363 and 1376. (fn. 65) The first definite