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A History of the County of Oxford
… attracted pupils from the large and influential Dissenting population, and, unlike the grammar school, increasingly … Hyde it was agreed, in view of the town's large Dissenting population, that the school should be open to 'poor children … School on Woodstock Road, set up to provide the growing population with a less academic education than the grammar …
A History of the County of Oxford
… industrial and residential centre of west Oxfordshire, its population rising from under 4,000 in the 1930s to over … and South Leigh were made in the north and north-east. 31 Population In 1086 some 47 tenant-households were recorded on … 13th century presumably reflected new building and rising population in the recently established town, 33 which by the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Houses The cottages discussed were for the town's working population. Tradesmen and shopkeepers in the 19th century … town's social structure, creating by the 1840s a sizeable population of wage-earning factory workers reliant on … promote educational and social facilities for the working population, while discouraging rowdier elements of popular …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 197 By 18012 it was over 3,000, around 27 s. a head of population, and significantly above the county and national … fallen, some 240 adults and children, 9 per cent of the population, received permanent out-relief, and another 159 … 115 workhouse inmates, almost 20 per cent of the resident population thus received some relief during the year. 199 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 130 In 1961 the need to provide for a rapidly expanding population led to the opening of St Luke's hall-church …
A History of the County of Oxford
… were signs of religious conservatism among some of the population, while in the Civil War, despite the presence of … and Quakers representing perhaps a fifth of the population, and by the 1770s their number had allegedly …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… London and other markets. The greater portion of the male population are employed in the oyster and other fisheries, … places, and, according to the census of 1841, contains a population of 11,282. In the immediate vicinity of the town … which are in Berks, and 2 in Wilts, the whole containing a population of 12,803. Dr. Thomas Goodwin, who was raised to …
A History of the County of Essex
… the Sunday school on each occasion, were recorded out of a population of 1,672. 45 The church was rebuilt and enlarged …
A History of the County of Essex
… 38. 95 In 1891 at least 213 men out of a total recorded population of 2,309 were employed as mariners, including … and 38.3 per cent in services, but about half the resident population worked outside the district, mainly in Col- …
A History of the County of Essex
… 1925 there were over 50 subscribers and by 1930 c. 150. 22 POPULATION, SETTLEMENT, AND DOMESTIC BUILDINGS. A Neolithic … 197 households in 1671. 32 In 1723 the rector reported a population of c. 110 families, which if accurate indicates a fall in population, 33 but in 1758 about 161 houses were assessed for …