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A History of the County of Oxford
… of Oxford, originated as a planned medieval market town and borough, laid out by a bishop of Winchester in probably … From the 17th century it became widely known for its cloth and blanket industry, and after 1945 it was developed as the chief commercial, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Introduction: Architecture and Buildings ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDINGS 1 Building Materials … as a whole, while in 1862 under 20 per cent voted for the Conservative J. W. Fane. 421 In 1837 the Whig candidate … generally revolved around local issues rather than party allegiance, among them the pressing problem (until …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Local government LOCAL GOVERNMENT Seignorial Jurisdiction and Borough Courts Borough Autonomy By the mid 13th century … within their estates, including freedom from toll, murage, and attendance at shire or hundred courts; the right to … Manors', 312; Cal. Pat. 134850, 241. Inf. from West Oxon. Conservative Assoc. website (2003). For town politics in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… reflected the experience of many small cloth towns, 1 and may have had its origins in an earlier tradition of local … accused of disseminating the scriptures in English and of questioning Catholic doctrine. Several of the group … and other prominent Wesleyans unanimously supported the conservative, hierarchical tendency represented by the Revd …
A History of the County of Oxford
… abbey consolidated much of its demesne land in Wolvercote and St. Giles's parish into a single block of land straddling … the process: in return for land at Ailmerswell, Horestone, and Hawsland ditch in the north end of St. Giles's, Godstow … gave to St. Frideswide's its land in St. Clement's parish and at Twisdelowe (40 a. in 1545) in the north-east corner of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… an ancient parish lying on the north-west of the city and liberty of Oxford, c. 2 ½ miles north of the city centre, contained two settlements, Upper and Lower Wolvercote; the adjoining extra-parochial areas of … probably an inn by 1625 when the mayor of Oxford and his party lunched there on their way round the city franchises. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the mid 16th century what woodland remained in Wombridge and Priorslee was probably coppiced; 7 in 1556 there were … 10 s. an acre. 8 Among the coppices in the later 17th and 18th century were Queenswood and Wallamoor wood in … and wastefully - the charcoal iron demanded by conservative customers. 60 In 1851 the Lilleshall Co. built …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… of what became the parish of Wombridge. About 1135 William and Seburga of Hadley and their son Alan gave land bounded on the east by a stream … wood (Wrockwardine wood), on the west by Springwell brook, and on the south by Watling Street. 90 Eastward and northward …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… to be processed to concentrate the content of potassium and to turn the raw product into POTASHES and PEARL ASH. It was less useful in its crude form, as one … such as blackthorn [Holme (2000)]; [Cox (1966, pb 1969)] and probably never confused with BOX COMB made with BOXWOOD. …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… The ancient parish of Woodford lies between Salisbury and Amesbury, on the western side of the River Avon. The … is bounded on the east by the winding course of the river and on the west by the old turnpike road from Salisbury to … extending a little over 3 miles from north to south, and from east to west about 2 miles in the north and 1 mile …