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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… A COMMERCIAL CENTRE Wisbech is now the commercial centre of the southern marshland, and the title 'Capital of the Fens', sometimes given to the town, is not without … This situation has long prevailed. No record of the grant of a market has been found, and this, taken …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Wiston WISTON Wiston parish 97 lies north of the South Downs, and is 4½ miles long from north to south … comprised 2,842 a. Buncton chapelry, a detached portion of Ashington parish which lay entirely within Wiston and … the shire and sheriff, and as Treasurer-at-War in the Low Countries incurred large debts to the Crown. 78 In 1602 he …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… Wistow WISTOW Wistow lies seven miles south-east of Leicester in the valley of the River Sence. Since 1936 it has included most of the … flocks may have been at Newton Harcourt. 76 The inclosure commissioners made 9 allotments in 1772: of the 875 a. …
Records relating to the Barony of Kendale
… and Ulpha WITHERSLACK, MEATHOP AND ULPHA. The mesne manor of Meathop and Ulpha with land at Crackenthorpe in Beetham was an early feoffment by one of the lords of Beetham in the twelfth century. Henry de … Andrew Wy . . . e, knight, and John Hales the king's commissioners, by the oath of Robert Bellyngham, knight, John …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Uvell) WITHIEL ( St. Uvell), a parish, in the union of Bodmin, E. division of the hundred of Pyder and of the county of Cornwall, 5 miles (W. by S.) …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1613 the borough owned an almshouse and garden on the site of Nos. 2838 Church Green north of the rectory house, … in the late 20th century. 3 Under a decree by the Charity Commissioners in 1613 the almshouse, with the town hall and … to keep down poor rates, a policy condemned by the Charity Commissioners in 1701. 18 By the early 19th century, out of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… history: agriculture AGRICULTURE After the creation of the town Witney manor, encompassing the three rural … with profits from rents and farming forming the bulk of the lord's income: in 1552 the manor was valued at just … (origins and devpt). Rep. Assistant Hand-Loom Weavers Commissioners (Parl Papers 1840 (639), xxiv), p. 552. ORO, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 32 s. 6 d. a year. Probably they stood near the sites of Waleys or Farm Mill near the 12th-century manorial precinct, and of Woodford or Witney Mill at the town's northern end, at … In 1649, when Witney manor was sold by the Parliamentary commissioners, it was said to include three water corn mills …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a dormitory town, a recurrent theme in the second half of the 20th century. 1 The arrival in 1950 of the engineering firm Smiths' of England, attracting both local employees and large numbers …
A History of the County of Oxford
… century its economic fortunes were closely linked to those of the woollen and cloth industries nationally, although it retained the range of occupations typical of a small, prosperous market and … obtaining a corporation for the town, and in 1640 the Commissioners of Trade included Witney among 60 clothing …