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A History of the County of Oxford
… adapting to new conditions largely accounting for the town's continued prosperity: in 1851 blanket-workers still … 2 and in the 1880s the industry was still called the town's 'staple' trade. 3 Difficulties in the 1850s, when the … Prov. Dir. (18234), s.v. maltsters; for coal transport by canal, above, intro. (communications). Pigot's Lond. & Prov. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and Curbridge were added in 1932, bringing the town's area to 1,306 a., and intakes from Curbridge (47 a.) and … the river and surrounded by low-lying alluvium. The river's surviving eastern branch formed the town's and parish's … between Radcot and Oxford. 89 From 178990 the rival Oxford canal and Thames and Severn canal, with wharfs at Lechlade …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Somerset, 28 miles (W.) from Somerton, and 155 (W. by S.) from London; containing 2984 inhabitants. This place is … Wiveliscombe in the Cathedral of Wells, valued in the king's books at 27. 0. 10.; net income, 300. The church is a very … by computation, and is intersected by the Basingstoke canal, and the London and South-Western railway, the latter …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Alvington and Lancaut consolidated, valued in the king's books at 13. 11. 5., and in the gift of the Duke of … N. division of the county of Northampton, 3 miles (S. S. E.) from Wellingborough; containing 1120 inhabitants. … conveyance is afforded for the produce by the Nottingham canal, which runs through the middle of the parish. Wollaton …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Wolvercote Economic history Economic history St. Frideswide's estate at Cutteslowe was administered independently of … much of its demesne land in Wolvercote and St. Giles's parish into a single block of land straddling the parish … in 1795 meadowland and arable near the newly-cut Oxford canal was said to have been damaged by water leakage, some of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… extra-parochial areas of Godstow, Cutteslowe, King's Weir, and Pixey Mead were incorporated in the later 19th … and North Oxford. The extra-parochial areas of King's Weir (0.09 a.) and Pixey Mead (51 a.), which was then … old course of the Cherwell later followed by the Oxford canal. The eastern, higher, ground is on Oxford Clay and the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… wapentake of Ryedale, N. riding of York, 4 miles (E. by S.) from Helmsley; containing 337 inhabitants. It comprises … WOMBOURN ( St. Benedict), a parish, in the union, and S. division of the hundred, of Seisdon, S. division of the … cultivation. The Staffordshire and Worcestershire canal passes for four miles and a half through the parish. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… of a road running south-west from Watling Street at Pain's Lane to join it at Snedshill, the limit of the improvement … Street to bypass Oakengates to the south. 73 At Teague's Bridge a sectional iron bridge was erected where the road (later Teague's Bridge Lane) crossed the Wombridge Canal, perhaps not long after the canal's construction in …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… there were said to be 38 a. of wood in Wombridge, worth 10 s. an acre. 8 Among the coppices in the later 17th and 18th … 11 Four or five ploughteams belonged to William Charlton's Wombridge tenants in the years 1693-8; most of the parish's … become a problem, and the construction of the Shrewsbury Canal was proposed. 39 Deep mining began early in the 19th …
A History of the County of Oxford
… its customs were ancient. The plots laid out at the town's foundation were held by burgage tenure, 76 and the … Woodstock, whose bailiff was accountable for the borough's rents, market tolls, and profits of court. 79 In King … to invest in government stock and later in the Oxford Canal Company. 92 Lack of funds rendered the corporation …