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A History of the County of Gloucester
… on the streams, but in the early 19th century several new turnpike roads were built following the valley bottoms. … leading position in local society. During that period also new cottage weaving settlements arose in outlying parts of … and the upper reaches of the Frome at Chalford, but new industries moved in, including iron-founding, brewing, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… of the first portioner and in his gift, receiving a new endowment of land and tithes in 1360. 91 The portioners … duties of the portioners may have ceased, however, at the new endowment of the vicarage in 1360; the first portion, at … portion was valued at £6 13 s. 4 d. in 1291. 13 At the new ordination of the vicarage in 1360 the first portioner …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… cottagers some of whom are said to have pulled down the new walls by night. 69 The commons were chiefly valued by the … people, most of them members of weaving families, left for New South Wales financed by the parish, and in the same year … church and his son Samuel who did much work for G. E. Street, were masons from Bussage. 26 George Drew, builder and …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… funds. 2 From 1855 the free school boys were taught at a new National school built at the north-west corner of the … or part of his salary from Ridler's charity, 16 and the new school was also supported in part by the Blue Coat school … by the clergy, with £5 from Ridler's charity. 20 In 1842 a new National school was built north of Chalford church 21 and …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… part of Bisley with 2,980 inhabitants was formed into the new civil parish of Chalford and the remainder of Bisley, to … until the early 19th century when largely superseded by new turnpike roads. At Stancombe north-west of Bisley village … to Cirencester and from Chalford to Birdlip. The main street, called High Street, developed along the latter road …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… floor was inserted into the hall and in the 17th century a new higher wing, incorporating a parlour, was added on the … which Henry Broughton held in 1536, 94 and he was granted new leases of Higons Court, together with the demesne lands … Farm, which stands on the east side of the main village street, is an early-18th-century house of two storeys. The …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… was partly demolished and a substantial chapel built on a new site at Chalford Hill. 46 In the same year Thomas Jones … 1847, 57 numbered over 200 in 1851, 58 and in 1874 a large new chapel was built, largely by the efforts of a prominent … A new chapel on a different site, on the west side of High Street, was built in 1863. 74 It had a congregation of c. 9 …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… in the sixteenth century of LOGWOOD, a DYEWOOD from the New World, created a furore and the use of this 'deceitful … unfortunates who had just filled their shops with the new season's fashionable textiles that might well be out of … of Mr Tompson, known by the sign of the Black Boy, in New-Street, Walsall' [Newspapers (1780)]. As a consequence of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in hand: 159 stone from one of them was used for the new Witney town hall in 1785, and in 1870 a later duke … Bourton Winslow manor house, was reportedly stocked with fish in the mid 18th century. 182 Oseney Cart. IV, pp. 4901. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… military airbase and by the associated growth of the new town of Carterton, which began as a colony of … of an ancient route running roughly parallel to Akeman Street, leading north-eastwards to an early crossing of the … edge. The Brize Norton and Witney road was replaced by a new branch road further north, which connected with the …
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