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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… a small N.W.-flowing stream which also forms part of the S. boundary. From this central valley, at about 130 m. above … steeply over Lias clays, to a maximum of 168 m. in the S.W. and 190 m. in the N.E., across a rolling landscape … the stream, and of the axial road which follows it, is a row of at least seven closes containing house-sites ('e' on …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 2 acres. Before this time various creeks, such as Carlton's Creek, 5 penetrated a long way inland and allowed the … In Leverington: the Marsh, Spitalfield, Thummins, Margerie's Croft, Farthing Field, Outnewlands, Fen Croft, Church … setting off on this voyage he gave a party, at which the row of walnut trees now standing was planted. In 1864 the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… through these and neighbouring parishes. Such are Popham's Eau, an early 17thcentury cut to guide the waters of the old Nene into the Ouse at Salter's Lode; the Old Bedford River (part of the south-east … window of the south chapel are the following subjects: top row(1) chalice and Host, (2) Deity seated and holding orb, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… St. Mary). The fact that the three obtained £1, 15 s., and 10 s. respectively in a division of certain charitable funds in … over this straight and considerable stream, with a good row of houses extending from it, and fronting the water, to a …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… when the flow of water was improved by cutting Moreton's Leam. Bishop West spent £200 on a new sluice, which was … the Nene for 7 miles downstream from Wisbech to Peter's Point. This would have given a 5-foot fall, but the … £150 in demolishing a bank that was part of Kinderley's improvements (1726). 17 By 1751 it was possible in a dry …
A History of the County of Sussex
… 18th centuries, besides some 19th-century cottages and a row of council houses. The hamlet of Hole Street, c. ½ m. … 1181 and 1204, were presumably his descendants. 54 William's son Henry 55 had apparently succeeded by 1210, 56 and was … c. 1230. 57 Another William of Wiston, apparently Henry's son, is recorded in 1238, 58 and held 4 fees in Wiston and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… not clear: after 1795, when the almshouse was rebuilt as a row of six cottages, each was usually let to non-paupers at … by subscriptions, loans, and a subvention from the town's Freeland estate charity, 1 together with sale of old … the bailiffs and excluded from charitable uses. 4 Holloway's and Townsend's Almshouses Two other almshouses were founded …
A History of the County of Oxford
… ECONOMIC LIFE 1500 TO 1800 From the 16th century Witney's economy was dominated by its expanding cloth industry, … riots. Conditions improved only with the blanket industry's recovery in the early 19th century, as piecemeal mechanization transformed the town's industrial organization. 14 The Cloth and Blanket Industry …
A History of the County of Oxford
… declined or remained low, suggesting that much of the town's trading took place outside the formal market structure. In … was presumably planned to avoid competition from Witney's market. 6 A second annual fair, held for five days from the … by the churchwardens in 17923, and a partly occupied row remained in 1816, but was removed before 1840. 51 By the …
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 town's population fell through emigration, 4 may be partly …