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A History of the County of Oxford
… c. 1907 of the Bampton, Aston and District Gas and Water Co. the water supply was chiefly from wells until the Second World War, 77 …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… mid 1930s. 98 Its houses remained dependent on wells for water 99 until the early 1950s when they were supplied under … the furnace site, beside the main road, was presumably the water mill at Nibley with which in 1636 and 1648 members of … Glos. Survey, 218. Citizen, 28 Sept. 1951; Pearce, 'Water Supply in Dean', 43-4. Glos. R.O., DA 1/100/6, mins. 17 Nov. …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… also carrying grazing rights. Closes called Newlands and Water Furrows lay in the south-east by the Dyke brook. 15 … Manor farm (97 a.) had a modern dairy supplied with river water through a pump and stalls for 26 cows but 65 a. were … and the state of footpaths, but rejected a mains water supply in 1931 as too expensive. Electricity was provided in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… failed. 27 The Bampton, Aston, and District Gas and Water Co., later part of the Mid-Oxfordshire Gas and Water Co., established a gas works south of Aston road c. … near the gas works. 28 Witney R.D.C. took over the water supply before 1939, and electricity, supplied by the Wessex …
A History of the County of Oxford
… No. 40 South Bar, of which the front, dated 1784 on rain-water heads, is of ashlar with a central arched doorway of … than seven laundresses, presumably because of the good water-supply on the rising ground at the edge of the town. Terraced …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1235 and 1257 the king ordered the bailiff of Banbury to supply cattle and sheep for his household, 242 and in 1238 … between then and 1866 the brewery was enlarged, and the water-supply improved by the acquisition of a property on a … for four months in 12991300 accounted for repairing water-mills and windmills and for some 54 qr. of corn and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and amenities. 157 The board was unable to finance a supply of water, for which responsibility was taken over by the Banbury Water Co. in 1854. 158 In 1888 the Local Board was disbanded …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… (plan, p. 10), is sited on almost flat ground with ample water supplies near by. It consists of a building (a) with a …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… years. 38 By 1941 gas and electricity were available and water supplied by the Wenlock Corporation. 39 Nevertheless in … O.S.D. 207; P.R.O., IR 30/29/28. A.H.S. Waters, Rep. on Water Supply (S.C.C. 1946), 16. W. F. Mumford, Wenlock in the …
A History of the County of Essex
… from Brentwood through Ongar. 22 Part of the parish has a water-supply by pipes laid in 1952-3 by the Herts. and Essex …