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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… for land. Swindon (Holy Rood) SWINDON ( Holy Rood), a market-town and parish, in the union of Highworth and … A branch railway diverges from Swindon to Cheltenham. The market is on Monday, and on every second Monday for cattle; the latter is termed the great market, and a corn-market has been established since the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… G.W.R. works in the mid 19th century Swindon was a small market town of no more consequence than many others in … economic growth, first, from the expansion of the weekly market which attracted local commerce, 55 and then from the … Limestone, from which arose a traffic with the London market. 56 Contemporary records reveal quite a wide range of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… beginning of the 19th century, therefore, Swindon, a small market town of just over 1,000 people, had no nonconformist …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… it was said that William de Valence had been holding a market at Swindon for 15 years, 7 and in 1289 it was … a rural manor, and compares with several of the smaller market towns in the county. Very little more is known of … in 1662, 41 but was removed in 1793. Nearby stood the stocks and pillory. 42 On the north side were two stone-tiled …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… urban growth there by granting his men the right to hold a market. 1 Nothing is known of any organ of local government … of cottages built on waste, of the lack of pillory and stocks, and of broken assizes of bread and ale, continue for … it was leased to one of the Goddards and converted into a market-house. 17 In 1767 the vestry decided to build a …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… and backsword-playing, both of which took place in the Market Square. 1 Bull-baiting was dying out by the beginning … rooms, and, at the rear of the building, a covered market and a few shops. 10 A site in the middle of the … its educational classes, and in 1890, by which time the market and shops had outgrown their usefulness, the property …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Pontefract, obtained for the inhabitants the grant of a market on Thursday, and of a fair for three days commencing … Swineshead (St. Mary) SWINESHEAD ( St. Mary), a decayed market-town and a parish, in the union of Boston, wapentake … for the more effectual drainage of certain lands. The market, now nearly disused, is on Thursday; and a fair is …
Swyncombe
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… by the local Hayes family) ran to Henley on Thursdays (market day), continuing until the 1890s. 3 Thereafter … in court fines perhaps reflected a more active land market. 10 The Black Death apparently led to long-term …