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A History of the County of Oxford
… adapting to new conditions largely accounting for the town's continued prosperity: in 1851 blanket-workers still … 2 and in the 1880s the industry was still called the town's 'staple' trade. 3 Difficulties in the 1850s, when the … a tenth of the working population in 1851 were farmers or agricultural labourers, with another 3 per cent engaged in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… INDUSTRY 19001945 During the earlier 20th century Witney's economy remained chiefly dependent on the blanket industry … structural changes before the Second World War, when one or two manufacturing firms moved to Witney partly to escape … below. Beckinsale, 'Cotswold Woollen Ind.' 360. ORO, B1/PL/EB/2, summary of weavers employed Aug. 1949. Plummer and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… out by a bishop of Winchester in probably the late 12th or early 13th century within a large pre-Conquest estate. … and Curbridge were added in 1932, bringing the town's area to 1,306 a., and intakes from Curbridge (47 a.) and … said to be 'in' or 'opposite' the shambles or butcher row, presumably replaced temporary stalls or booths, and may …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and the excavated remains of the bishop of Winchester's manor house show that there was high-quality stone building … gable to the street, perhaps of the late 15th or early 16th century. No. 49 Market Square is a … no. 18. W. Wilkinson, Eng. Country Houses (2nd edn 1875), pl. 60. Datestone; cf. Lewis's Topog. Dict. Eng. (1840), …
A History of the County of Oxford
… freedom from toll, murage, and attendance at shire or hundred courts; the right to distrain and to receive fines … and the right to deliver and return royal writs, the king's officers being forbidden entry into the bishop's manors … one external tap in 1945, 266 probably typical of the row. Health Provision Witney had surgeons and apothecaries …
A History of the County of Oxford
… survival of blocked, single-splayed windows of late 11th- or early 12th-century type high up in the nave of the … east, and almost certainly it long predated the borough's foundation. 1 The ecclesiastical parish, conterminous with … f. 32; illustr. in Skelton, Antiq. Oxon. Bampton Hund. pl. 5. ORO, MS dd Par. Witney c 40, a (8). Above (chantries); …
A History of the County of Essex
… the parish, which served Colchester from the 16th century or earlier until the 19th, developed into a small town. … a post office by 1853, probably the one which was in Queen's Road in 1887, and a sub post office at Wivenhoe Cross by … brackets to a deep eaves above which there was formerly a row of large attic dormers. 40 A later brick wing, now a …
Survey of London
… Woburn Walk and Duke's Road LXXIIIWOBURN WALK AND DUKE'S ROAD (formerly Woburn Buildings) From the east side of … as Woburn Buildings, but the northern is shown as Duke's Row on Cary's Map (1818) and has since been named Duke's …
A Dictionary of London
… of later time called Wolfes Lane, but now out of use (S. 42). "Wolsieslane "lay between the tenement of Sir John de … Lane, being named after the commodities sold in them, or in the great market of Cheap to which they were adjacent. … maps. Site has been rebuilt. Woodruffe Lane See Cooper's Row. Woodwharf .On the Thames, in Castle Baynard Ward. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 6 A further appeal to the pope in 1416, against Wolvercote's liability to contribute a third of the cost of repairs to … Oxford, and a team ministry composed of a rector and one or more vicars was established. The incumbent of St. … Merton Coll. Mun., roll 3801. Parker, Guide, p. 98 and pl.; MS. note in Bodl. copy; Freeborn, Wolvercote Ch. 18. …