Search
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 1720 the capital burgesses resolved to build a municipal workhouse on a 3-acre site between the Horse Fair and the … 2 guineas and the first year's production of hemp from the workhouse. In all, £2,000 was borrowed for the completion of … however, declined, and while the master of the Leverington workhouse was getting only 2 s. 9 d. a week for each of his …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… The word Baua signifies burying ground. Lib. Dooms. Test. de Nev: Esc: 3 E. 3, n. 20. Ex Magno Lib. de finibus …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… was given to 7 adults and 15 children. There was no workhouse. 69 In 1836 Wistow was placed in Billesdon Union. … adults and 44 children were given out-relief. There was no workhouse. 89 In 1836 Newton Harcourt was placed in Billesdon … and was called a 'house of industry', but it was never a workhouse in the proper sense. Some of the occupants were not …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 23 July 1910. For No. 45 Corn Street, used as a parish workhouse, above, local govt. (poor relief; town property). …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Union quarry near Tower Hill, opened for building Witney workhouse in 1835, 70 was later let to Bartletts', which …
A History of the County of Oxford
… with an imported workforce at the disused union workhouse just west of the town, made industrial collets for …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and numeracy. 8 In the 1740s children in the parish workhouse were expected to be taught to read, though whether …
A History of the County of Oxford
… National school (1856) at Church Green, and the union workhouse (18356), just outside the town on Tower Hill. A row …
A History of the County of Oxford
… tenements apparently united around 1711. 46 A new parish workhouse was built on the site of three cottages in Corn … north being converted into offices. 231 28. Witney union workhouse c. 1840. ( A. day rooms; B. probationary wards; C. … town feoffees by the overseers, were rebuilt as a parish workhouse in 1744; a stone tablet recording its erection …