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A History of the County of Oxford
… manor, had commercial interests in London, Bristol, Gloucester, Hereford, Oxford, and Aylesbury, and he endowed a … Its freedom from guild regulations and easier access to rural out-workers may have helped gloving there, although it …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Ban- bury's �40. 76 As the market centre of a troubled rural area Woodstock was concerned in the abortive agrarian … anti-Blenheim group was usually active in local affairs. Rural distress in the town's hinterland provoked food riots …
A History of the County of Oxford
… property vested in the guardians of Woodstock union as the rural sanitary authority and in Wootton district highway board were transferred to the new … brigade, setting up a joint committee with Chipping Norton rural district council, but from 1941 responsibility passed …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 76 householders in the ancient borough, 165 in the added rural area, and 76 freemen living within 7 miles, 52 of them … the duke's influence, since he owned much of the rural part of the new constituency. Sir James Graham, trustee … for him, gained 119 votes in a poll of 262; transporting rural voters accounted for half his election expenses, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wooler, established in 1847, extend over the registration-district of Glendale. The lord of the manor holds a court … books at 7. 3. 11., and in the gift of the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol: the great tithes have been commuted …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… there were five in 1969, one of which is attributed to a Gloucester founder c. 1500. 64 The others are dated 1633, probably by John Palmer the elder of Gloucester. 65 1696, 1774, and 1775, the last two cast by Abraham Rudhall of Gloucester. 66 Owing to the weakness of the bell-frame only …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… The other moiety of Ash Weir belonged to Thomas, Duke of Gloucester, in 1398, 17 but the whole fishery had passed to …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… the stream that flows into Horse Pill from the road from Gloucester to Chepstow, but north of the road it takes an … piped to the fields c. 1955. 12 Between the hills and the Gloucester-Chepstow road the land, falling gently to 100 ft., … partly due to the presence of railway navvies in the district that year. The population declined steadily to 852 …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… other local government purposes it was placed in Lydney Rural District in 1894. 90 S.C. 6/850/1-6. N.L.W. Badminton MSS. …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… H. Samuel, the owner in 1969, keeping c. 120 a. near the Gloucester-Chepstow road for his own use. 25 The farm-house … was given c. 1110 by Hugh de Lacy to Llanthony Priory, Gloucester. Richard de Clare confirmed the gift c. 1150, 46 …