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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
… style with a plaster dome, it had 600 seats. 75 A small mission was started at Wivenhoe Cross in 1848. 76 On census … they continued until 1933. 88 In 1864 Henry Ruffnell, a railway official, held evangelical meetings, mainly for … chapel for six months in 1866, changing its name to the Gospel Hall. He left for America in 1868, having failed to …
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 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 6 d. and children 2 s. 95 Part of the land was sold to the railway companies in the 1850s and the proceeds invested in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… mill. In 1841 the mill employed 19 people from the parish. Railway building in the early 1850s accounted for the 74 railway labourers in the otherwise largely agricultural … workers compared with 46 people at the paper mill and 10 railway workers; other occupations included 9 masons, 3 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to join the Thames above King's Weir. 84 The Oxford-Rugby railway line was built through the parish in 1846, and the … were swollen by the temporary presence in the parish of 74 railway labourers. In 1861 the population was 617 and in 1871 … pronounced after the building of the canal in 1789 and the railway in 1846, and was particularly sharp in the early 20th …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Queensway, partly built along the former Coalport branch railway, opened northwards to the Hollinswood interchange in … through into the underlying Wellington- Wolverhampton railway in 1855, draining the summit level and flooding … Oakengates. It was replaced in 1860 by the Coalport branch railway. 79 The Trench inclined plane closed in 1921, …