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A History of the County of Oxford
… town and borough, laid out by a bishop of Winchester in probably the late 12th or early 13th century within a … estate. From the 17th century it became widely known for its cloth and blanket industry, and after 1945 it was … was perceived as the only way to acquire sufficient cheap coal for mechanization at Witney. 91 Railways The …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Buildings ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDINGS 1 Building Materials In the 1640s Witney was described as a stone-built town, 2 … lintel and tie-beam ends which were originally covered for their better protection, reflects 20th-century taste. … accused of making 'a fever nest for the town' by 'cheap conversion of rotten old stables into dwellings for his …
A History of the County of Oxford
… being forbidden entry into the bishop's manors except in connection with Crown pleas. 1 In 1284 the bishop procured … twice-yearly tourn or view of frankpledge, which continued for the rural townships following the borough's foundation. 4 … town bailiffs accounted to him throughout the Middle Ages for borough income from rent, courts, markets, and fairs, and …
A History of the County of Essex
… Wivenhoe Charities for the poor WIVENHOE THE ancient parish of Wivenhoe, c. 3 … form an estuary, covered 1,549 a. (627 ha.). 85 Its port in the south-west corner of the parish, which served … new hotels provided accommodation for yachting visitors. Cheap railway fares were available for yachts- men in 1905. …
Survey of London
… chiefly interesting because of its plan. It was arranged in two sections connected by elliptical and circular … twice as long and contained a front room balancing that in the S.E. part, with stairs and small rooms between it and … 96 and this and the adjoining house are mentioned as being in course of erection. Woburn Lodge is shown in the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wollaston (St. Andrew) WOLLASTON ( St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Chepstow, hundred of Westbury, W. division of … who, after a judicial combat at Salisbury, was executed for high treason, was lord of the principal part of this … of which is finely groined, and supported on one central pillar; the walls are three yards in thickness, and on both …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Wollaton, Olaveston WOLLATON, OLAVESTON. In Olaveston (through corruption of speech now called … of a Mannor which defore the Conquest Vlsi had, who paid for it to the Dane-geld after the rate of a carucat and an half. The Land was then for twelve oxen, or twelve bovats. 1 There afterwards Warner …
A Dictionary of London
… Wollewharf See Wool Quay. Wolsies Gate A water gate in the roparie, in parish of All Hallows the Less, of later … Court" in Rocque, 1746, but rebuilt later. Removed 1884 for the erection of the City of London Artizans' Dwellings … the commodities sold in them, or in the great market of Cheap to which they were adjacent. Pavements of tesseræ were …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… By the mid 16th century what woodland remained in Wombridge and Priorslee was probably coppiced; 7 in 1556 … unrealistically low: a cottage rented from the estate for £2 was sublet for £6 10 s., and five cottages with a … and by 1922 both works were on a three-day week as cheap foreign steel took over the home market. In 1922 the …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… product into POTASHES and PEARL ASH. It was less useful in its crude form, as one diarist found to his cost when … was confined largely to fixing HINGEs, and rather later for securing the corner blocks in the seat frames of CHAIRs … that a version was available as a TOY. They were very cheap, being valued at less than 1d each [Inventories …