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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Swindon Social life SOCIAL LIFE. No evidence exists on which to base an account of the social life of Swindon before the arrival of the railway. Record of two … town. 2 The last bull-baiting was, however, in c. 1810. 3 Swindon, according to Morris, was renowned for its …
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… St in 1828 and 135 Snowhill in 1830. [D] Taylor, Joseph, 7 Swindon Pl., Cheltenham, Glos., cm and u (1830). [D] Taylor, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… is possible for new municipal boroughs to be created, and Swindon was granted a charter of incorporation in 1899. No … of Westrop included 125 persons in the Highworth and Swindon Union Workhouse. Hindon. Decrease attributed to … Sutton Veny. 7 persons had emigrated since 31 Dec. 1840. Swindon. Included 507 labourers employed on the Gt. Western …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 12
… see sale particulars of 1949 in National Monuments Record, Swindon, file SA01004. Rot. Hund. I, 176. Inq. p.m. Glos. …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… After the opening of the Great Western railway line from Swindon to Gloucester, Tetbury was served from a station on …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Suindune. William de Horsya did homage for his land of 'Swindon' to William Avenell, c. 1220 ( Som. Arch. Proc. …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… ed. W. P. Phillimore, (priv. print. London, 1905), i. 107. Swindon Advertiser, 21 Feb. 1891; Wilts. Cuttings, xi. 93. F. …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… paper was sold in 1956 to Wiltshire Newspapers, Ltd., of Swindon, a member of the Westminster Press group. 484 The … Herald and Advertiser and subsequently published in Swindon as the Wiltshire Gazette and Herald. In 1836 it had …
A History of the County of Essex
… Uppark Drive, Eastern Avenue, and Chadwell Heath, and at Swindon (Wilts.), Rotherham, and Sheffield (Yorks.), …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 1840 when the G.W.R. opened a railway line from London to Swindon. 23 Although much traffic was diverted to the London … been built there by 1300. 29 In 1773 the main road from Swindon ran by way of the Old Eagle in Ogbourne St. Andrew … Road, so called in 1838 and earlier. 32 Another road from Swindon through Ogbourne St. George, which entered …