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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… near the township, and has a commodious landing-place for coal, lime, and gravel; on its banks are some mills, and … the hills is very fine. A little north of High Carricks, coal was worked in 1810, in pits about ten fathoms deep, but …
A History of the County of Oxford
… £300 stock yielding £9 a year. It was distributed in coal to 80 poor families in that year, and continued usually as a coal charity, frequently augmented by the corporation from … c. £340 a year; pensions were no longer given, but coal and groceries were distributed. In 1977 a Scheme for …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 3 wheelwrights, 3 saddlers, and a coachmaker; there were 3 coal merchants, 2 corn dealers, and a currier and cheese … of the assize and offences relating to weights and measures, and the same court checked and sealed private measures. 38 In the 1670s the corporation's new Exchequer …
A History of the County of Oxford
… overseers. 73 The corporation continued to contribute to a coal fund, financed by subscription. In 1800 the council agreed to store coal in the town hall or shambles cellars before it was resold to the poor at low prices; in 1842 a coal magazine was established. In 1828 the corporation agreed …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… meadow and pasture, 353 woodland, and 40 road and waste. Coal is obtainable, though not wrought; and there are …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… of Dean Forest in order to check the felling of timber, coal-mining, and iron-works, which had become more extensive … Madgett, Woolaston Woodside, and near Cone Mill. A former coal-pit a short distance south of Whitewalls farm was then … in 1856, a threshing machine contractor, a haulier, a coal merchant, and a corn-dealer in 1876, and a mason in …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… The cottagers found employment in the woods, quarries, and coal mines of the Forest of Dean and Tidenham Chase, but the … year clothing and blanket clubs were established and a coal club was in existence. 99 A Memorial Hall was built in …