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A History of the County of Essex
… from the 16th century or earlier until the 19th, developed into a small town. Wivenhoe became an urban district in 1898, … estate area, the part of Wivenhoe which had expanded east into Elmstead. Wivenhoe was then the fourth most populous … to St. Mary's church, the Congregational church, the gas- works, and houses on and near The Quay, but there were …
A History of the County of Essex
… preparing the way for the vestry's transformation into an urban district. 71 Wivenhoe urban district was … sewerage system with Colchester's Hythe sewage works. 91 A gas company was formed in 1861, perhaps that described in 1878 as Wivenhoe Gas Co. which was still trading under that name in 1937. The …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… hundred of Ford, S. division of Salop, 9 miles (W.) from Shrewsbury; containing 427 inhabitants. It is situated near … it contains a spacious newsroom. The parish is divided into the four constableries of Wolsingham, WolsinghamPark, … more ancient appearance. The town is paved, lighted with gas, and supplied with water partly from wells sunk to a …
A Dictionary of London
… the lower part of the lane was built on by the Earl of Shrewsbury and the other part stopped up and built on by the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… status in 1566, when the judgement of 1416 was translated into English, 10 but the outcome is unknown. Two 16th-century … growing population of the parish as North Oxford expanded into it, and by 1909 there were 214 Easter communicants, … house was bought in 1961. In 1982 the parish entered into a local ecumenical project with Summertown United …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of its demesne land in Wolvercote and St. Giles's parish into a single block of land straddling the parish boundary. … in the north end of that parish, one close extending into Wolvercote, and at the Dissolution the demesne in both … extension enabling the output to be doubled. Steam- and gas-driven machinery were installed in 1898, electricity in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of the parish, including Upper Wolvercote, was absorbed into the built-up area of Oxford in the earlier 20th century, … the whole of the southern part of the parish was taken into the city. The boundaries of the earlier 19th-century … from Carfax to Wolvercote village began in 1914. 86 Gas reached Upper Wolvercote in 1913, mains water before …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… well wooded. The common was inclosed in 1816, and brought into tolerable cultivation. The Staffordshire and … the soil is dry and sandy, and the surface hilly. The Shrewsbury, Shropshire, and Marquess of Stafford's, canals … brick edifice, built on the site of a structure which fell into ruins in 1760. The Wesleyans have a place of worship. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… The coalfield was given access to the county town by the Shrewsbury Canal, which opened fully in 1797; a section from … The section of the Wombridge Canal not incorporated in the Shrewsbury Canal probably became disused c. 1819. The Ketley … were common and the canal was said to have broken through into the underlying Wellington- Wolverhampton railway in …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… them since at least 1778. Those interests did not come into the Lilleshall Co. when Bishton became a partner in … early 1900s. 68 The closure meant that the furnace's waste gas could no longer be burnt off to provide steam power to … line from 1918. New kilns and glazing technology were introduced in the 1930s. Nevertheless coal nationalization in …