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A History of the County of Oxford
… date the town was an ecclesiastical centre: Woodstock rural deanery was established by the mid 13th century, and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Its freedom from guild regulations and easier access to rural out-workers may have helped gloving there, although it …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Ban- bury's �40. 76 As the market centre of a troubled rural area Woodstock was concerned in the abortive agrarian … anti-Blenheim group was usually active in local affairs. Rural distress in the town's hinterland provoked food riots …
A History of the County of Oxford
… property vested in the guardians of Woodstock union as the rural sanitary authority and in Wootton district highway board were transferred to the new … brigade, setting up a joint committee with Chipping Norton rural district council, but from 1941 responsibility passed …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 76 householders in the ancient borough, 165 in the added rural area, and 76 freemen living within 7 miles, 52 of them … the duke's influence, since he owned much of the rural part of the new constituency. Sir James Graham, trustee … for him, gained 119 votes in a poll of 262; transporting rural voters accounted for half his election expenses, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wooler, established in 1847, extend over the registration-district of Glendale. The lord of the manor holds a court …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… partly due to the presence of railway navvies in the district that year. The population declined steadily to 852 …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… other local government purposes it was placed in Lydney Rural District in 1894. 90 S.C. 6/850/1-6. N.L.W. Badminton MSS. …
A History of the County of Somerset
… union from 1836, from 1894 was part of Bridgewater rural district, and was absorbed into Sedgemoor district in 1974. 4 CHURCH ORIGINS, PATRONAGE AND ENDOWMENT …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in extent, were constituted an ecclesiastical parish or district, named St. Thomas's, under the act 6th and 7th … business has been nearly destroyed. Woore is the head of a district chapelry, which includes the township of …