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A History of the County of Oxford
… 1800 From the 16th century Witney's economy was dominated by its expanding cloth industry, already unrivalled within the county and marked, from the early 17th century, by increasing specialization in blankets and other … 'Marketing of Agric. Produce in 18th-Cent. Oxon.' (Birmingham Univ. PhD thesis, 1981), p. 478; above, intro. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… functions during the Middle Ages are ill recorded, but by the 17th century they were predominantly for foodstuffs … fell gradually to 3035 s. in the 1260s and to under 30 s. by the mid 1280s. Income from selds and stalls, around 23 s. … 'Marketing of Agric. Produce in 18th-Cent. Oxon.' (Birmingham Univ. PhD thesis, 1981), 723; Univ. Brit. Dir. [ …
A History of the County of Oxford
… c. 18001900 During the 19th century Witney was transformed by mechanization, the introduction of the factory system, and … comprised almost 19 per cent of the working population, by far the largest single group, 2 and in the 1880s the … compete and closed its Witney branch in 1885, though the Birmingham Banking Company opened a rival Witney branch the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… WITNEY BOROUGH Introduction The town of Witney, 1 by the river Windrush some 10 miles (16 km.) west of Oxford, … as a planned medieval market town and borough, laid out by a bishop of Winchester in probably the late 12th or early … by the 1820s to Burford, Banbury, Oxford, London, Birmingham, Bristol, Swindon, and Warwick, and by the 1850s …
A History of the County of Oxford
… John and Maximilian Pettie in 1608, and formerly occupied by William Critchley, gentleman. 15 No. 90 Corn Street was a … have 'tram-line' mullions and pediments. Now subdivided by an inserted wall across the centre of the hall, the house … built in 1975 to designs by Radford Harper Associates of Birmingham, replacing a church in a former Anglican …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… hundred of Ock, county of Berks, 4 miles (N. W. by N.) from Wallingford; containing 125 inhabitants, and … Upper WITTON, UPPER, a hamlet, in the parish and union of Aston, Birmingham division of the hundred of Hemlingford, N. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Somerset, 28 miles (W.) from Somerton, and 155 (W. by S.) from London; containing 2984 inhabitants. This place … a gentle eminence, in an extensive valley inclosed by lofty hills, which suddenly break into deep ravines. The … children of the poor. The Bedford branch of the London and Birmingham railway passes on the north-west of the town. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wye to the Severn. Towards the Wye the parish is bounded by a range of limestone hills, and towards the Severn by a rich vale of red marl; it is intersected by the road … by the road from Coventry to Daventry; the London and Birmingham railway also passes through the parish, in which …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Snedshill coppice to the west, was replaced in 1730 by a 'new road', the later Canongate, running across the coppice. 71 About 1820 it in turn was replaced by a new road to the south-west as part of the Holyhead road … Wood inclined plane. 84 In 1849 the Shrewsbury & Birmingham (later G.W.R.) line from Wellington to …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wombridge Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. Agriculture. By the mid 16th century what woodland remained in Wombridge … were Queenswood and Wallamoor wood in Wombridge, managed by a keeper, and Snedshill coppice (82 a.) in Priorslee. 9 By … that it was joined with Spartan Steel & Alloys Ltd. of Birmingham to form the Shropshire Steel Co. Ltd., which …