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A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Development of the town Development of the town New Woodstock developed at a … doorway provides the earliest evidence of building in the town. The town in the later Middle Ages probably … there were few industrial buildings, since steel manufacture and gloving, Woodstock's chief 18th-century …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Economic history Economic history In the century after its foundation the town prospered, … the mid 18th century Woodstock was renowned also for its manufacture of polished steel. 73 Horseshoe nails were …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Introduction Introduction In 1279 local jurors asserted that New Woodstock was founded … of Rosamund Clifford; he therefore provided land outside the park so that men might build hospitia, and he granted a … dependent entirely on markets and fairs, and lacking 'any manufacture to maintain it and the poor'. 99 On the basis of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… BOROUGH TO 1886.When New Woodstock was incorporated in 1453 75 the borough and its customs were ancient. The plots laid out … to buy the freehold in 19289 and 1941. 51 From 1935 gas manufacture ceased but the gasholder remained in use. The …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock sent two representatives to parliament in 1302 and two others in 1305; 86 all seem to have been residents and two were members of the prominent Bennet family. 87 The borough charter of 1453 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Protestant nonconformity Protestant Nonconformity The Presbyterian Thomas Whateley preached at Woodstock in the late 1660s, 55 and in 1672 Edward Miles and William Metcalfe applied for …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… St. Wookey (St. Matthew) WOOKEY ( St. Matthew), a parish, in the union of Wells, hundred of Wells-Forum, E. division of … called Wolves-dale, from its abounding with wolves. The manufacture of woollencloth is carried on extensively. There …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woolaston Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY: Agriculture. In 1086 there was no demesne land in either Woolaston manor or Aluredston, though the king held two fisheries in demesne at Madgett. 6 By the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Manor and other estates MANOR AND OTHER ESTATES. Before the Conquest Brictric son of Algar held two hides in WOOLASTON within Twyford hundred. 6 Unlike other estates … de Breteuil), who forfeited his estates for his rebellion in 1075. 9 They were granted to William of Eu who held the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Woolminstone - Woore Woolminstone WOOLMINSTONE, a tything, in the union of Chard, hundred of Crewkerne, Western division of … is appropriated as an Engineering-foundry, and for the manufacture of steam-engine boilers, and the requisite …