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A History of the County of Essex
… Woodford. During the 19th century improved roads and the railway brought Woodford within the range of middle class … grew slowly to 2,774, but after the coming of the railway it increased more rapidly to 4,609 in 1871, and 7,154 … East London Waterworks Co., and by 1914 its successor, the Metropolitan water board, was supplying every house in the …
A History of the County of Essex
… by 1826. In 1839 Woodford was brought into the area of the Metropolitan police. 18 The lord of the manor was presented …
A History of the County of Essex
… a large part of the original Monkhams wood west of the railway line. 109 In 1892, when Arnold F. Hills purchased the … other with the site to the south-east, near the present railway line, known as Monkham or Lane farm. 118 Monkham … old farm-house was still standing in 1892, but when the railway was built in 1856 the line cut though its farm …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and the soil generally of very poor quality. The Clarence railway passes through. The vicarial tithes have been … Chester. It has a station of the Manchester and Sheffield railway; and not far distant is the commencement of the great … on the south bank of the river Aire, and near the Midland railway, which has a station here. A great part of the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Further S. a round-headed archway, big enough for a carriage, is blocked and a doorway and window are set in the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… four paper-mills, and two corn-mills. The Leeds and Thirsk railway passes in the vicinity. The church is in the early … to Oundle, and the Northampton and Peterborough railway, pass through. The living is a rectory, valued in the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… bowl with octagonal sinking, 14th-century reset. Secular Railway Gatekeeper's Cottage, see p. 416. b(2) Woodsford …
A History of the County of Oxford
… The hotel surrounds a long courtyard, approached through a carriage entrance. 11 Most of the courtyard ranges are of the … in no. 26. The south wing incorporates an ornate classical carriage entrance and no. 30 retains the former main … gabled range on the west; the tall block incorporating the carriage entrance was the site of another inn, the King's …
A History of the County of Oxford
… bay, incorporating a north door and portico. To provide carriage access Alderman Joseph Brooks, churchwarden and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… acquired its imposing mid 18th-century east range and carriage entrance when it was merged with the former King's … nonconformist chapels, schools, a public station, and a railway station. The streets were repaved in the 1850s, and … 19th century, presumably because of the newly established railway link, the duke of Marlborough considered schemes for …