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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Remains. The common fields of the parish were enclosed by Act of Parliament in 1778 (VCH Northants., IV (1937), 58; …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… to erect works in the immediate vicinity of the town. An act was passed in 1845 for making a railway called the … is built, and partly from water-works established under an act passed in 1845, by a company having a capital of 20,000. In 1847 an act was passed for uniting the former gas-light company with …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… two boys, at the village, eating hasty-pudding, in the act of quarrelling over their mess, had this picture drawn. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the regulation of the common under the Commons Regulation Act of 1899 seem to have foundered on the opposition of the … Green (12 a.) were registered as common land under the Act of 1965; as no lord of the manor claimed ownership, the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… with extra-parochial places. 55 Under the Divided Parishes Act of 1882, small areas of Yarnton and Water Eaton, … its area from 1,158 a. to 1,160 a. 56 The Local Government Act of 1888 transferred c. 38 a. of Wolvercote within the … Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation Act of 1889 transferred the 14 a. west of that area, formerly …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the rental of 28 acres of land allotted under an inclosure act, and of a piece of meadow called the Church estate, is …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… building. 34 Slum clearance began after the 1930 Housing Act, with c. 50 houses initially listed for demolition over …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… higher standard. This practice was outlawed in 1512 in an act that claimed formerly worsteds had 'ben truly made, shorn …
Alumni Oxonienses
… nonconformity, chaplain to Charles II., silenced by the act of conformity; died at Inglefield, Berks, 1 Nov., 1684, … one of the commissioners on trial of the king, but did not act; his will proved 24 Aug., 1672. See Ath. iii. 514; & …