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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Hundred Outwell and Upwell OUTWELL AND UPWELL These two villages lie astride the Well Stream. … Cathedral and the vases on top of the stone piers from Wanstead House (Essex). 53 CHRISTCHURCH, at the hamlet of the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… or Farm Mill near the 12th-century manorial precinct, and of Woodford or Witney Mill at the town's northern end, at what … 1 Outlying mills at Hailey (near modern New Mill) and at Crawley were added probably in the late 12th or early …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Economic history: medieval trade and industry ECONOMIC HISTORY Medieval Trade and Industry During the earlier 13th century the recently … at Waleys (now Farm) Mill just south of the borough, at Woodford (now Witney) Mill to its north, and from a third …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by mechanization, the introduction of the factory system, and the emergence of large commercial family firms. 1 The … the working population, by far the largest single group, 2 and in the 1880s the industry was still called the town's … (with premises at New Mill and West End) in 1894, buying Woodford and Witney Mills (where he was co-lessee) in the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of Oxford, originated as a planned medieval market town and borough, laid out by a bishop of Winchester in probably … From the 17th century it became widely known for its cloth and blanket industry, and after 1945 it was developed as the … Lane east of the river. 60 Further north, the name Woodford implies an early north-south river-crossing near the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Introduction: Architecture and Buildings ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDINGS 1 Building Materials In the 1640s Witney was … (as now) wholly of timber. 163 Farm and Witney ( or Woodford) Mills Other surviving large early mill buildings …
A History of the County of Oxford
… an ancient parish lying on the north-west of the city and liberty of Oxford, c. 2 ½ miles north of the city centre, contained two settlements, Upper and Lower Wolvercote; the adjoining extra-parochial areas of Godstow, Cutteslowe, King's Weir, and Pixey Mead were incorporated in the later 19th century. …
Alumni Oxonienses
… graduate), said to be S.T.D.; a minister in Salisbury, and at Newbury, Berks, ejected 1662 for nonconformity, … May, 1678, aged 17; his father governor of Windsor Castle, and knighted 20 May, 1660; brother of Edward. Woodcock, … paup. Pembroke Coll., matric. 25 Feb., 1668-9, aged 19. Woodford, Heighes s. Sam., of Bensted, Southants, S.T.P. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the antiquities that have been found are, foundations and ruins of buildings, fragments of statues, stags' horns, … of the Lower Empire, a coin of Adrian, one of Lucilla, and a noble tessellated pavement, of which an engraving was … containing 272 inhabitants, and comprising 1659 acres. Woodford WOODFORD, a township, in the parish of Prestbury, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… Woodford 107. WOODFORD. (B.e.) (O.S. 6 in. (a)lxv. N.E. (b)lxv. S.E.) Woodford is a parish and suburb of London adjoining Walthamstow on the E. … from the old building the following: Fittings Bells: six and sanctus; sanctus said to be by Mathew Bagley, 1708. …