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A History of the County of Sussex
… outside relief and four were maintained in the union workhouse. 58 After reaching a peak of £3,384 in 1817-18, …
Broadwell Parish: Filkins
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… and two cottages nearby were used earlier as a parish workhouse. 5 16. The village bowling green provided by Sir … other lands, 1 while William owned the cottages used as a workhouse, and served as overseer of the poor. 2 In the mid … was spent on outdoor relief and 417 on a newly-established workhouse (see below). Some 14 per cent of Filkins's …
Broadwell Parish: Holwell
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… which was given to the poorest at the time. 18 No parish workhouse is recorded. Following the 1834 Poor Law Act …
Survey of London
… following year the conversion of the pesthouse into 'a fit workhouse for the begging poor of this parish' was …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 12
… chosen in 1751 as the site of the parish poorhouse (later workhouse). Following its closure in 1835, that house was … for placing the parish's paupers for a year in the Dymock workhouse. In 1784, during an outbreak of smallpox in the … against the disease. 24 By 1826 the poorhouse was run as a workhouse under a governor 25 and in 1829 many of its inmates …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… at Harris's (or Harrison's) Green, the site of the later workhouse, was granted in 1734. 68 Between 1770 and 1793 the … thirty and forty people relied on the parish. There was a workhouse, as contracting had proved oppressive. 69 It had 36 … year. 73 The parish was in Madeley union 1836 1930. 74 The workhouse at Harris's Green, which had a garden south of …
Broughton Poggs Parish
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… master and servant was evident in shared banter about the workhouse. 2 Broughton Poggs lacked public houses, and its … and the rectory house. For similar use of a hovel as a workhouse, below, Langford, social hist. (poor relief); cf. …
A History of the County of Somerset
… who met either in the parish church, local inns, or the workhouse. The parish records were epitomised in the earlier … also leased part of a barn to house the poor. 69 In 1734 a workhouse was opened where the poor were employed at knitting …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… It had a smallpox house in 1761, and from c. 1774 a workhouse in which paupers were employed in spinning and …
A History of the County of Stafford
… and 1829 the overseers paid 4 4 s. rent in respect of the workhouse at Norton Canes, presumably in return for being …