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A History of the County of Leicestershire
… 'The Dames', and Newton Meadow-and a small area of willow beds near the rivers. By 1670 there were only 7 families in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1960s, acquiring a national reputation for hand-crafted beds and other items; by the 1980s it had 150 employees in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Abingdon and Hungerford (both then in Berks.), Dunstable (Beds.), and Bridport (Dorset), while later 13th-century names …
A History of the County of Oxford
… manufactured specialist mattresses, quilts, and feather beds, and ran a successful blanket-cleaning service. 16 44. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… were named, the latter was well furnished with two 'high' beds, a truckle bed (perhaps for a servant), a little … and in 1684 a blanket-maker's ground-floor room with two beds was described not as a parlour but as the 'lodging room below stairs'. 83 Parlours without beds appeared first in the houses of the lite. As early as …
A History of the County of Oxford
… on three floors (including garrets), furnished with 23 beds or bedsteads. Witney's overseers paid for nursing …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… stone axe has been found within the village (SP 907627; Beds. Arch. J., 7 (1972), 967). a(1) Ring Ditch (SP … pottery, probably of Iron Age date ( JRS, 51 (1961), 134; Beds. Arch. J., 3 (1966), 6; BNFAS, 6 (1971), 18, Wollaston … a patch of charcoal and burnt pebbles has been found ( Beds. Arch. J., 3 (1966), 6). a(6) Ditched Trackway and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1 Sept. 1644, p. 1143. Letter Bks. of Sir Sam. Luke (Beds. Rec. Soc. xlii), p. 545; Wood's Life, ii, p. 449; F. …