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A History of the County of Essex
… to the Thames. The ancient parish, which was entirely rural until about 1850, had an area of 2,498 a. 4 It became … parish to be haunted. 68 But it was beginning to lose its rural character. The first area to be thus affected was North …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 56 In 1932 it was transferred from Woodstock to Witney rural district, and in 1974 to Cherwell district. There was …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire
… Bengeo, Urban and Rural 18. BENGEO, Urban and Rural. (O.S. 6 in. (a)xxi. S.E., (b)xxix. S.E.) …
Benson (Including Fifield, Preston, Crownmarsh, Roke)
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… 1863 by its large open fields, and governed by the usual rural institutions of manor and parish. Its late 20th-century … and possibly south of Crowmarsh Battle Farm. 22 Roman rural settlement seems to have been widespread, focused on … the village's northern edge. 9 Finds suggested only modest rural settlement, however, and no archaeological confirmation …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the town of Ironbridge. 77 The former parish is largely rural, but in earlier centuries its extensive reserves of … was in Madeley poor-law union 1836-1930, 51 and in Madeley rural sanitary district from 1872 until 1889, when it was … being absorbed by Barrow C.P., then assigned to Bridgnorth rural district and in Bridgnorth district from 1974. Bower …
Old and New London
… Farm Street, on the other side of the square, from the rural manor of which it once formed a part. But Peter …
Old and New London
… Road and Bermondsey where we should now look in vain for rural enjoyments. The favourite route from Southwark to the …
Berrick Salome
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… the late Bronze and early Iron Ages, but a subsequent rural Roman settlement was apparently abandoned after the … 11 Pudsey's share passed with his Chalgrove manor to the Winchcombe and Hall families, but by the 1780s had apparently … in the late 19th century, 7 but generally traditional rural crafts were mentioned only sporadically, suggesting …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… but those of the parish generally, have exchanged their rural for a commercial character, and the peasantry have … residences. The population is scattered among the rural districts; many, in consequence of the necessary …