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A History of the County of Oxford
… 6 d. and children 2 s. 95 Part of the land was sold to the railway companies in the 1850s and the proceeds invested in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… mill. In 1841 the mill employed 19 people from the parish. Railway building in the early 1850s accounted for the 74 railway labourers in the otherwise largely agricultural … workers compared with 46 people at the paper mill and 10 railway workers; other occupations included 9 masons, 3 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to join the Thames above King's Weir. 84 The Oxford-Rugby railway line was built through the parish in 1846, and the … were swollen by the temporary presence in the parish of 74 railway labourers. In 1861 the population was 617 and in 1871 … pronounced after the building of the canal in 1789 and the railway in 1846, and was particularly sharp in the early 20th …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Queensway, partly built along the former Coalport branch railway, opened northwards to the Hollinswood interchange in … through into the underlying Wellington- Wolverhampton railway in 1855, draining the summit level and flooding … Oakengates. It was replaced in 1860 by the Coalport branch railway. 79 The Trench inclined plane closed in 1921, …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… be demolished in advance of the Wellington-Wolverhampton railway c. 1846. It was replaced by a chapel opened in 1847 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… until the construction of the Wellington-Wolverhampton railway across it c. 1849, and thereafter at the other end of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… population is employed in making shoes. The Peterborough railway, and the road from Thrapston to Wellingborough and …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… running from east to west through North Woodchester. 6 A railway was built in 1867 linking Nailsworth with the main …