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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 … followed Emma's dyke and the northern edge of the railway line (excluding the passenger station), and the … time, was then only a 'horse road', but became the chief carriage route following the building of Swinford toll bridge …
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 … street, with gabled and jettied cross wings and a large carriage entry on the south; a datestone of 1593 was noted at … looms in 1858, 169 presumably in anticipation of the railway; a power-loom shed was built south of the mill pond …
A History of the County of Oxford
… included isolating smallpox cases, in 1864 providing a carriage for conveying infected patients and corpses, and in … successor Arthur Lea Leigh. 289 Until the advent of the railway the need to haul coal by road probably limited the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… allowed there by 1679, when the monthly meeting ordered a 'carriage' for carrying corpses 'to the burying ground'. 75 A …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of land, chiefly arable; it is traversed by the road and railway from Norwich to Yarmouth, and bounded on the south by … a manufactory for fire-bricks and draining-tiles. There is railway communication with the neighbourhood of Wolsingham, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of which 70 are common or waste. The London and Brighton railway passes through. The living is a perpetual curacy; net … the poor. The Bedford branch of the London and Birmingham railway passes on the north-west of the town. Assemblies, … by the Basingstoke canal, and the London and South-Western railway, the latter of which has one of its principal …
A History of the County of Essex
… of sprats were caught by stow-boats for farm manure. The railway enabled the sprats to be transported to London … A malting sold in 1859 stood near the site of the proposed railway line. 29 G. O. Green ran a brewery in Paget Road south of the railway from 1867, using steam power from 1868; it apparently …
A History of the County of Essex
… it was in a 'disgraceful state' and the Tendring Hundred Railway Co. re- placed it with a new road, which had … lived in the parish in 1863. 14 The Tendring Hundred Railway opened a line from the Hythe to Wivenhoe in 1863, … 1867, despite disputes with the Wivenhoe and Brightlingsea Railway, it had extended the single track line to Walton, …
A History of the County of Essex
… they continued until 1933. 88 In 1864 Henry Ruffnell, a railway official, held evangelical meetings, mainly for railway nav- vies, in a barn. His successor, George Carter …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of the town. An act was passed in 1845 for making a railway called the Wear-Valley railway: the line runs from the Bishop-Auckland and Weardale railway, past Wolsingham, to Frosterley, and has a branch to …