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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… as an Iron Age currency bar is now thought to be an agricultural implement of unknown date (OS Record Cards; T. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… personalty valued at under 30. 80 The yeoman section of society was strengthened moderately by sales of land from the … 1817 to 1907. 170 The parish's main farmers survived the agricultural depression of the late 19th century, 171 tenants … 172 During the 1870s there was a branch of the National Agricultural Labourers' Union (Oxford District) in Brize …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 64 Settlement and Population Early Settlement Prehistoric agricultural activity is implied by items of likely Neolithic … used for auctions, 188 and in the 1840s70s for friendly society meetings. 189 Around 1930 it was popular with old and … 12 s. 6 d. each, which was often spent on clothes for agricultural work or domestic service. 246 In 1926 a proposed …
A History of the County of Oxford
… value was about 300 gross, 29 but within three years the agricultural depression reduced rental income, making it … Middx) from 1772 to 1798, and helped to found the Linnean Society in 1787. (He was later bishop of Carlisle, 18081827.) … had 4070 members from 1900 to 1931; an adult temperance society had 4059 members between 1902 and 1923, and a young …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… Clarke and Mr. Michael Rolls two of the assistants of this Society Ano. 1683." A sham door with similar ornament and …
A History of the County of Sussex
… marl were also dug in the parish. 95 Besides the usual non-agricultural occupations a chapman was recorded in 1481. 96 … 37 and by c. 1847 the school was united with the National Society. It then had 23 boys and 40 girls on the roll, with …
Broadwell Parish
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… late Anglo-Saxon estate. 2 The villages were predominantly agricultural, and Filkins and Kelmscott retain some …
Broadwell Parish: Broadwell
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… 1881, when there were 54 households. Presumably because of agricultural depression numbers fell to 202 by 1901 and to … of the 20th century, and during the later 20th century, as agricultural jobs disappeared, the population dwindled … Larges consequently became the dominant figures in village society, alongside the vicars who from the 19th century once …
Broadwell Parish: Filkins
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… most of them in Filkins. 13 The village was largely agricultural until the 20th century, but from an early date … until 1861 when there were 641 inhabitants, but during the agricultural depression large numbers left: by 1901 there … Cotswold Woollen Weavers. SOCIAL HISTORY Medieval Village Society The hamlets of Nether and Upper Filkins developed at …
Broadwell Parish: Holwell
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… west of Witney. Throughout its history it has been a small agricultural community, and during the 19th and earlier 20th … as the population shrank further with the decline in agricultural employment, it was increasingly inhabited by … 11 In 1871 Holwell school was affiliated to the National Society, confirming its Anglican connections. By then it had …