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A History of the County of Leicestershire
… was made by Sir Henry Halford about 1815. The recorded population in 1086 was 22. 5 Only 9 taxpayers were recorded … 1332 6 but there were 130 poll tax payers in 1377. 7 The population apparently fell during the 15th century: only 16 … 12 There were 6 families in the early 18th century. 13 The population varied from 9 to 19 during the early 19th century, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Witham comprises 17 parishes or places, and contains a population of 15,407. In the neighbourhood is a mineral …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… ( V.C.H., Dorset iii, 86, 101), each with a recorded population of four. The other Domesday Hemsworth is … West or Upper Hemsworth. There is no subsequent record of population, and in c. 1770 when Isaac Taylor drew the estate …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… comprises forty-two parishes or places, containing a population of 22,963. The Roman Akeman-street passes near the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to reach the genuinely needy: over 2,150 people out of a population of 3,574 received free loaves, collected from …
A History of the County of Oxford
… however, that was deemed inadequate for the anticipated population-increase, 29 and although the town's economy, … and retaining new industries to serve the growing population. Closure of most of the blanket firms damaged … which was essential to provide for its sharply rising population during the 1980s and 1990s. In the 1980s West …
A History of the County of Oxford
… its immediate rivals to become the chief market and population centre for west Oxfordshire: within the county … other small craftsmen, suggests an expanding economy and population, 9 and immigration during the 16th and early 17th … after cloth-workers, as might be expected in a town whose population by 1800 exceeded 2,500, 147 were suppliers of food …
A History of the County of Oxford
… international scale. More general resurgence of the town's population and economy followed, though possibly not until … 121920, presumably reflected both steady demand and rising population. 4 The Bridge Street extension linked the borough … income in 12256, 12312, and 12478. 6 By 1279 the borough's population probably exceeded a thousand, 7 many inhabitants, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… still comprised almost 19 per cent of the working population, by far the largest single group, 2 and in the … trade. 3 Difficulties in the 1850s, when the town's population fell through emigration, 4 may be partly … century. By the 1850s almost a fifth of the town's working population were wage-earning factory workers, but Witney …
A History of the County of Oxford
… seems generally to have thrived despite a slight fall in population, with relatively limited unemployment even during … villages. By contrast a substantial proportion of the male population worked elsewhere, principally in the maintenance …