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A History of the County of Stafford
… middle-class houses were built along the Ashby road, and there has also been extensive 20thcentury council and private housing development in the south-eastern part of … township. Winshill was a township in Burton ancient parish and later a civil parish covering 1,150 a. (465.4 ha.). 15 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… north of Wisbech. The Shire Drain divides it on the north and west from the sister parish of Tydd St. Mary in … separating, as it has done, two counties, two dioceses, and in all probability two AngloSaxon kingdoms. The upper … eastern boundary of the parish is also a county boundary, and was in 1934 adjusted to conform with the modern course of …
A History of the County of Sussex
… WISTON Wiston parish 97 lies north of the South Downs, and is 4½ miles long from north to south and 1½ miles wide at its widest point. The ancient parish … of Ashington parish which lay entirely within Wiston and comprised 256 a., was added to it between 1882 and 1891. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… cloth industry, already unrivalled within the county and marked, from the early 17th century, by increasing specialization in blankets and other broadcloths. 1 Thenceforth until the 20th century … such as shoemakers, breeches-makers, and a few glovers, who in the 17th century rarely left goods worth more …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by mechanization, the introduction of the factory system, and the emergence of large commercial family firms. 1 The … supplemented family income as dress- or bonnet-makers, glovers, or laundresses. 8 The Blanket Industry c. 18001900 … and leather workers (12 per cent including shoemakers and glovers): PRO, HO 107/1731; below. A. M. Taylor, Gilletts, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of Oxford, originated as a planned medieval market town and borough, laid out by a bishop of Winchester in probably … sides of High Street were occupied by dyers, broadweavers, glovers, butchers, and carpenters, while some others were … around Corn Street, Woodgreen, and West End, and glovers and agricultural workers around Newland. Wealthier …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… paid for it to the Dane-geld after the rate of a carucat and an half. The Land was then for twelve oxen, or twelve … but at 60s. The Soc extended into Totteshale, Brauncote, and Sudtune. [Pedigree] The family of Mortein were the next … Henry the firsts time, at the foundation of Lenton Priory; and Adam de Moretonio, 2 22 H. 2. gave account of xxx marks …
A History of the County of Oxford
… until the 1930s. They were listed in a survey of 1279 and as 'the king's rents' in 1468-9. 48 Later the corporation … early 1850s, 86 and was taken over by the Money family, glovers, in the late 1850s when they left no. 10 Oxford … of the 18th century the Norman family of fellmongers and glovers lived on part of the site. It was sold in 1792 to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… marking out of a site, probably confined on the north and east by the road, later Oxford Street, to the Old … called Hensgrove, acquired by the king from the Templars and taken into the park, perhaps when the town was founded. … to the north side of High Street; 73 opposite was the Glovers' and Shoemakers' Street. 74 The names, repeated in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… but it remained a small community of tradesmen, craftsmen, and royal servants. Service in the park and household is … also kept inns. The remaining mayors comprised a cutler, 2 glovers of whom one was principally a woolman, and 4 whose … were builders, blacksmiths, tailors, shoemakers, glovers, coopers, and barbers. Roger Sturgis (fl. 1612), …