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Broadwell Parish: Filkins
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… schoolmaster, a policeman, and an inland revenue officer. Transport employed increasing numbers. In 1861 Thomas Clack … commercial enterprise, due partly to the lack of easy transport. 3 The right to dig materials from the wastes and … intro. (devpt of village). Morrison, then minister of transport, formally opened the village museum in 1931: …
Broadwell Parish: Kelmscott
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… The parish meeting pressed frequently for improved public transport from the 1940s, though with limited success. 13 River transport was locally important by the 13th century, when … limited use, however, and local dairy farmers continued to transport milk from Lechlade. 2 Post was delivered through …
Broadwell, Langford and Kelmscott: Cotswolds to Thames
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… was not only a barrier to be crossed but an important transport corridor, certainly in the earlier Middle Ages and … Canal to Lechlade) coal. 9 During the 19th century river transport was superseded by the railway, which came within … tn) may originally have specialized in the supply and transport of coppice wood for fuel, while at Radcot …
Survey of London
… T. C. Barker and Michael Robbins, A History of London Transport, vol. ii, 1974, pp. 57, 82, 109113: B.A. 21974. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the arrival of the railway saw the end of river barge transport and Jackfield's 300-year role as a port. 50 The … the lessees) of freehold land. Access to seams and transport of coal required the co-operation of neighbouring … near the Severn, conveniently for river, and later rail, transport. Most brick and tile works were concentrated around …
Broughton Poggs Parish
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… evidence of 2nd to 4th-century date have been found. Transport links were provided by the river, and the site may … its inhabitants with a good water supply and favourable transport links. In the Middle Ages houses were probably …
Survey of London
… companies to use the new wharf, and they required good transport links with the City. The construction of a road … of the 'penny steamer' service. By 1930 the nearest public transport was the bus service in the East India Dock Road. 25 …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… flax Some imported FLAX was tied up in bundles for easy transport. The bundles were very large, weighing up to a TON. …