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A History of the County of Oxford
… improvement and instituted attendance checks through District Visitors; the school acquired new premises on Church … who attended its schools in 1897 coming from the outlying district. Nevertheless it was claimed to be the only civil … school on Hailey Road, in an area taken into the urban district a few years earlier; at its opening it had 196 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a civil parish, and from 1895 to 1974 it formed an urban district. 3 Further enlargement of both district and civil … incorporated from 1898. Separate accounts are given of the rural townships of Crawley, Curbridge, and Hailey. Location … well over a thousand, far larger than that of Witney's rural townships combined 34 and, on 14th-century evidence, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… quality. In 1874 the inspector for Witney Urban Sanitary District reported a block of 'wretched' cottages on … attending Witney manor court, mostly copyholders from the rural townships, were provided by the duke of Marlborough's … or hostility and caused widespread distress among rural spinners, while many weavers in the 1830s still had …
A History of the County of Oxford
… tourn or view of frankpledge, which continued for the rural townships following the borough's foundation. 4 A … burgus, chiefly to distinguish it from the 'upland' or rural part of Witney manor. 8 In important respects townsmen … effectively policed by the town's local board and urban district council. 44 By 1871 its proceedings were largely …
A History of the County of Oxford
… taking a lead in welfare and social matters, reorganizing district visiting and thrift clubs, and arranging parish … chimes were installed in 1950 at the expense of the urban district council, which had taken over responsibility in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… park, and the Blackwater here empties itself into it. A district church, dedicated to St. Mark, was built in 1840; it … and the remainder woodland and plantations. The northern district is chiefly uninclosed moor, but the soil in other …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the county of Nottingham, 2 miles (S.) from Bingham. This district, the soil of which is rich, is bounded on the east …
A History of the County of Essex
… At that time 12.1 per cent of employment within the urban district was in agriculture, fishing, and mining, 49.6 per … but about half the resident population worked outside the district, mainly in Col- chester. 36 Wivenhoe Sand, Stone & …
A History of the County of Essex
… developed into a small town. Wivenhoe became an urban district in 1898, and remained so until 1974 when it became part of the new Colchester district, later designated borough. 86 Natural boundaries … of land along the front- ages which the new Wivenhoe urban district council used to widen the road c. 1898. 49 Before …
A History of the County of Essex
… roads. Wivenhoe became part of Lexden and Winstree Highway District in 1868. 69 An iron parish cage on Anchor Hill, … the way for the vestry's transformation into an urban district. 71 Wivenhoe urban district was created in 1898, … ashpits, and cesspools cleaned. Lexden and Winstree rural district council became responsible for the removal of …