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A History of the County of Gloucester
… land held by the Crown in demesne, mainly extraparochial and uninhabited woodland and waste, and on the other manorial and private freehold … by the Commissioners of Woods, mainly inclosed timber plantations and commonable waste, was restricted to c. 19,200 …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… by opening a day school in his new chapel at Berry Hill and was followed by Henry Berkin, who established a similar … school at Holy Trinity church near Drybrook in 1819, and by Henry Poole, who provided schools for Parkend and Bream in 1824 and 1830 respectively. Those schools were …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… the first of a family which was later surnamed Forester and kept forests under the Crown until the early 13th … as an instrument for disciplining those damaging the plantations, and it was envisaged that it would have … 13th century, Bristol was one of the main markets for the trade in stolen wood, which c. 1780 was said to be brazenly …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Forest of Dean Industry INDUSTRY Its timber and mineral resources have given the formerly extraparochial … those within it were demolished in 1674 and the Irish trade remained important. 18 Although experiments in the … at Lydney Pill in the 1650s, and Newnham, which conducted trade with Ireland, handled ore and coal in the 1660s. 42 The …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Gloucestershire in the angle formed by the rivers Severn and Wye as they approach their confluence. A large tract of woodland and waste land there was reserved for royal hunting before … planted in the 19th century to shelter the young oak plantations. Large plantations of pure conifer were made …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… in 1653 was evidently in Weston under Penyard (Herefs.) 16 and the Quaker meeting attended by George Fox in 1668 17 was presumably at Aylburton. 18 Baptist and possibly Methodist preachers made occasional forays into … and Hewlett, above, Industry, ironworks; other ind. and trade. Glouc. Jnl. 27 Mar. 1875. G. E. Lawrence, Kindling the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… cabins inhabited by ironworkers, charcoal burners, and others while their operations were in progress or until … watch for fires, timber stealing, or other damage to the plantations. Worcester Lodge is on high ground on the west … for Hewlett, below, Industry, ironworks; other ind. and trade. Glos. R.O., Q/RGf 1/6; 2 nd Rep. Dean Forest Com. 57. …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… usual controls of local government, fostered individualism and disdain for authority. 93 An introspective society … Tump and Bilson. 56 Dean's miners first formed a trade union in 1871. 57 In the later 19th century the Liberal … bridge in 1874 94 came to dominate the town's retail trade. 95 The society's penny bank for children had 700 …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Survey affords conclusive evidence of the widespread and considerable character of the woods of Middlesex in the … was not only an invaluable material for building purposes and a necessity as fuel, but the acorns and beech-mast were … hickories, and other trees into English gardens and plantations. Ray, the distinguished naturalist, visited the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in fact it was, in the main, woodland down to the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The ancient chase of Woodstock lay to the north of Oxford, and adjoined the considerable forest of Wychwood on the west. … in which he gave special attention to the woods, plantations, and wastes. 50 He describes the produce of the …