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A History of the County of Essex
… industry has grown up in what is essentially a dormitory town. The industries include the making of plate-glass, …
A History of the County of Essex
… was divided and one constable was appointed for the 'town' and one for Woodford Bridge. Fining to avoid parish …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… WEST ( St. Lawrence), a parish, and formerly a market-town, in the union of Hungerford, hundred of Kintbury-Eagle, … county of Chester, 6 miles (E. N. E.) from the village or town of Mottram. This district lies on the border of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Dorchester division of Dorset, 5 miles (E.) from the town of Dorchester; containing 158 inhabitants. This parish, … of Skyrack, W. riding of York, 4 miles (N. N. W.) from the town of Leeds. The ecclesiastical district of Woodside was … Carricks ground. Woodstock WOODSTOCK, a borough and market-town, having separate jurisdiction, and the head of a union, …
A History of the County of Sussex
… several meadow was mentioned later. 14 Kingston mead and Town mead in the north were common meadow: parcels of each …
A History of the County of Oxford
… (approx. 19 in. to 1 mile). Quitrents imposed on the town's original burgages survived until the 1930s. They were … Benjamin Johnson, mercer (1693-1715), and Edward Ryves, town clerk, seem to have sublet the inn, and it may have been … even the house was the Mermaid, flanked on the west by the town's almshouses and on the east by the common pound. 28 For …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and in the 1590s the house was taken over for the town clerk's use. 78 The corporation provided an alternative … to assign the baking of charity bread for the year to the town's bakers in alphabetical rotation. 96 In a … to maintain the charity. 3 Edmund Hiorne (d. 1629), the town clerk's father, left £5 to the poor in the almshouse, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a chapel after the 17th century. From an early date the town was an ecclesiastical centre: Woodstock rural deanery … independence and was unusually closely controlled by the town corporation. It had its own burial ground by the 13th … in Hensington and medieval hospitals in or near the town, 70 and by the later 15th century Woodstock chapel …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Development of the town Development of the town New Woodstock developed at a gate into the royal park. The town's curving west boundary perhaps represents the line of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Economic history In the century after its foundation the town prospered, acquiring a fair in addition to its original … 68 requiring the assumption that ovens recorded in the town in 1279 were pottery kilns. Surnames derived from places … s., less than nearby Hanborough or any Oxfordshire market town except Eynsham. 72 In 1327 Woodstock's assessment of c. …