Above: Simon Wisdom's merchant's mark at 96 High Street (top left), with the date 1578
Son of the tea merchant Frederick Horniman (who founded the Horniman Museum), Emslie J Horniman (c.1865-c.1944) lived at Burford Priory from 1912 t
The Great or Warwick Almshouses, founded 1455-6. (Photo by Mike Hesketh-Roberts, English Heritage)
Graffito carved on the church fonr by Anthony Sedley, one of the imprisoned Levellers
Sir Lawrence Tanfield (c.1551-1625) was a prominent lawyer and politician who established a country seat at Burford in the 1580s.
This site will soon contain all Burford wills and inventories for 1500-1699 . There will be a glossary to help with obscure words.
These now separate buildings were formerly the White Hart Inn, said to have been built and opened around 1615 by Richard Merywether. No.
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In contrast to the houses further east, buildings from here to the end of Sheep Street resulted from 16th- and 17th-century development of what was
Behind a remodelled 17th-century façade are remains of another medieval house, documented from 1492 when the guild of the chapel of St Mary in Burf
