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A History of the County of Oxford
… century, and the laying-out of 16 new burgage plots along Bridge Street in 121920, presumably reflected both steady demand and rising population. 4 The Bridge Street extension linked the borough with plots laid … perhaps representing subdivided plots. 9 Rents for the new Bridge Street plots appear initially to have been 12 d. for …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was needed, and by the 1870s, with new premises on Bridge Street, he was well established as a leading … set up the White Hart brewery and malting business on Bridge Street about 1851; though that proved successful, he … engineering firm, that of Daniel Young, was established on Bridge Street. Young supplied and serviced steam engines, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and ran a successful blanket-cleaning service. 16 44. Bridge Street Mills ( W. Smith & Co.): ( a) The street frontage, built probably c. 1899. ( b) Bridge Street Mills from the south-west in 1999. 45. Witney … produced were to government contract. Smith and Philips' Bridge Street factory was requisitioned in 1941 and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… National school was established in 1813 on Bridge Street, prompting a sharp fall in the number of … A National school was established in 1813 in premises on Bridge Street, converted from a malt house and several … side of Church Green on glebe given by the rector, the Bridge Street building being sold and later demolished. The …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 121920 the borough was extended north of the river along Bridge Street: 14 thenceforth until the late 19th century the … 'at Costow' taken into the borough about the same time as Bridge Street. 16 Buildings at the southern edge of … further along West End, beyond the rear boundaries of the Bridge Street burgage plots, were taken into the borough …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 16th-century house. 14 The plan of Riverside House on Bridge Street, evidently a large, late 16th-century house of … and others amalgamated or otherwise regrouped. Nos. 810 Bridge Street appear to be two 17th-century houses with an … 17th century mentioned parlours, though Riverside House on Bridge Street (described above) seems to have had two. In the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and North ward, otherwise the Ward beyond or beneath the bridge, along Bridge Street and West End. 33 Courts from the 16 th Century … new police station at Church Green. 178 A county court on Bridge Street was completed in 18589, and in the 1960s a new …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… from the north bank of the Wear, which is crossed by a bridge. The scenery around is of great beauty, and on the … of the Lyn burn, which joins the Wear a little below the bridge. This castle, built about 1410, was the baronial … is intersected by the river Font, over which a substantial bridge of stone was erected in 1837. Upon the village cross …
A History of the County of Essex
… on the river Colne leading to Old Heath called Butchers bridge, where the river was only 6 yd. wide at low water; … tide between The Quay and Fingringhoe at Wivenhoe ferry bridge, described as 11 yd. wide in 1734, although in the … car ownership. 98 By 1718 there was a ferry and moveable bridge or ford, accessible only at low tide, over the Colne …