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Broadwell Parish: Filkins
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… an early date contained an unusually high proportion of rural tradesmen and craftsmen. Quarrying and stone masonry in … still served the surrounding area, and in 2011 a few small rural businesses offered local employment, although by then … incomers included entrepreneurial craftspeople embracing rural life: potters, cane weavers, furniture restorers, a …
Broadwell Parish: Holwell
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… terms its wealth was comparable with that of most other rural settlements in the area. Among individual tenants there … always been predominantly agricultural, with even standard rural trades such as smithying infrequently recorded. The … passed to the county or to the newly established Witney Rural District Council. Residual parish responsibilities were …
Broadwell Parish: Kelmscott
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… though to Morris himself, with more idealized views of rural life, Kelmscott was a 'beautiful grey little hamlet' … views of vernacular architecture, traditional crafts, and rural life. In 1902 Morris's widow Jane commissioned Philip … 1327, suggest that Kelmscott was among the more prosperous rural settlements in the area. From the mid 14th century …
Broadwell, Langford and Kelmscott: Cotswolds to Thames
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… BROADWELL, LANGFORD AND KELMSCOTT: COTSWOLDS TO THAMES The Rural Parishes covered in this volume lie in west Oxfordshire … part of Morris's legacy was to deprive the hamlet of the rural seclusion and anonymity which initially attracted him, … infilling, the area continued to be characterized by small rural villages and a few outlying farms, although most places …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 12
… Map 7. Bromesberrow 1882 BROMESBERROW is a small rural parish 18 km NNW of Gloucester and 5 km south-east of … of Bevan hill 9 and under an agreement of 1908 with Newent Rural District Council it provided a free supply to some … 14 was known later as the Croft. 15 Further east Newent Rural District Council built six houses next to the Malvern …
A History of the County of Somerset
… part of Bridgwater poorlaw union in 1836, Bridgwater rural district in 1894, and Sedgemoor district in 1974. 74 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the County Courts Act, 1846. 82 Broseley was in Madeley rural sanitary district 18726. 83 In 1876 Broseley civil … 1947 although the brigade agreed to continue as an unpaid 'rural fire party'. 19 A mortuary chapel, probably designed by … before Abraham Darby', W. Midlands Studies, xv. 4; idem, 'Rural Riots in 17th-cent. Salop.' in Rural Social Change & …
Broughton Poggs Parish
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… Broughton Poggs may have been associated with a separate rural settlement in Langford, and from the mid 3rd century AD … farms continued to operate at the end of the century. 8 Rural Trades and Industry Apart from milling, few trades and … must have exacerbated labourers' distress, especially as rural wages in Oxfordshire were notoriously low throughout …
A History of the County of Somerset
… been a borough or at least 'a small urban settlement in a rural setting'. Five of the burgesses were on the royal … of Wincanton poor-law union, in 1894 part of Wincanton rural district, and in 1974 of Yeovil (later South Somerset) …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Bolingbroke, and others to the ancient family of Winchcombe; a good organ was presented by the late incumbent, …