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A History of the County of Oxford
… ignored the line of the road and so created a wide market area. The long regular plots on the east side may be … boundary suggest confusion or compromise after the built area was extended. 14 Several tenements on the east side of … of the street implies an intention to provide a new market area, perhaps following Henry III's grant of a fair in 1250. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… most townsmen were recruited from the immediate market area, but there were men from Warwick, Aylesbury, and Marden … in the 15th century, 86 and the proportion of the market area devoted to wool and the number of mercers and drapers … of its own population: it provided not only for its market area but for Blenheim's flourishing tourist trade. 73 In 1830 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in 1953. In 1961, after an enlargement of the catchment area, numbers rose to 228. The school became comprehensive in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in 1279. 64 Vacant sites and large frontages to the market area were in marked contrast to the minute subdivision of … 73 Early 17th-century fairs drew travellers from a wide area. 74 The relative failure of nearby market towns such as … market, and by the 17th century Woodstock's market area seems also to have stretched west to Eynsham and east to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the rent of the gas works site which occupied a small area on the southern edge of the meadows from 1854. 48 By the … 1886 comprised the old borough and the extended built-up area, taking in c. 51 a. of Wootton parish, which included … 1697 a cistern had been provided in Market Place and the area around the market house repaved, 21 there seems to have …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in the ancient borough, 165 in the added rural area, and 76 freemen living within 7 miles, 52 of them in the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… the N. part, beyond the river terraces, is an extensive area of heathland on Bagshot Beds. Recent boundary changes in … occur immediately E. of the present village where an area of 2 acres with closes lies on either side of a … though springs are the present source of water in the area. (J. Sparrow, 'A Plan of Woodstreet and Bindon Farms' …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… between arable, pasture, and meadow, but c. 1700, when its area was only 313 a., there was hardly any arable land. 27 … holdings by the building of a dwelling at Sheepcot. 56 The area of both farms was enlarged in the 1860s by attaching 273 …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… of Tidenham Chase. The account printed here relates to the area that until 1882 formed the parish, comprising 3,303 a. excluding river foreshore and tidal water. 1 The area included Madgett, a detached piece of cultivated land on … parish lies on the Carboniferous Limestone with a small area of Millstone Grit near the road from St. Briavels to …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… latter sold it to Mr. G. E. Hunt in 1957, who enlarged the area in 1962 by the purchase of 34 a. from Gumstalls, and in …