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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… fairly steadily to a maximum of 167,442 in 1847. 28 Railway competition caused a rapid decline to 88,082 in 1854. … was achieved in 1845, and though the opening of the railway shortly afterwards was a severe blow to this trade, …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… 300 ft. within Newton Harcourt and has three locks. The railway from Leicester to Market Harborough runs to the north of the canal. Canal and railway divide the church and manor-house on the south from … village street and around a 'square' between it and the railway. There are few isolated buildings but one large farm …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… from wells. Here is a station of the Eastern Counties railway, 12 miles from that of Colchester. In 1846 an act was passed for a railway from Maldon, by Witham, to Braintree; it was opened …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… end of the solar. Excavations in 1961 by students of Liverpool College of Building suggest that the solar range …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… township, in the parochial chapelry of Didsbury, parish of Manchester, union of Chorlton, hundred of Salford, S. … the Roddlesworth flows in the township; and the Leeds and Liverpool canal skirts it on the west. Robert and John Parke, … consists of loam. The Oxford canal and the Trent-Valley railway pass through. The living is a discharged vicarage, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… recorded, attracting exhibits from as far afield as Manchester, Bristol, and Liverpool, and over a hundred stands in all. 41 Ibid.; cf. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… emigration, 4 may be partly attributable to the lack of a railway, which added significantly to transport costs and, by … were cited frequently by promoters of the Witney railway, 5 who soon after its opening in 1861 were credited … which handicapped 'all localities . . . unconnected by railway communication with the busy world'. 6 By the 1880s …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in 1949; 10 in the mid 1920s Smith's merged with the large Manchester wholesalers J. & N. Philips to form a combined …
A History of the County of Oxford
… southwards to take in the church, Mount House, and railway goods station, and northwards to take in Witney Mills … were daily services to those and other places including Manchester, Liverpool, and Plymouth, many using the railway; in addition …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to import brick from far afield before the opening of the railway, although no local brickworks are known. Houses … looms in 1858, 169 presumably in anticipation of the railway; a power-loom shed was built south of the mill pond … building (Fig. 27). The factory's location next to the railway goods station provided for ready transport of raw and …