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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… ft. along the Frome. The S. half is all on Bagshot Beds and Plateau Gravel and is partly heathland while the N. is largely on a wide … bowl with octagonal sinking, 14th-century reset. Secular Railway Gatekeeper's Cottage, see p. 416. b(2) Woodsford …
A History of the County of Oxford
… marking out of a site, probably confined on the north and east by the road, later Oxford Street, to the Old … nonconformist chapels, schools, a public station, and a railway station. The streets were repaved in the 1850s, and … sold to members of the Oxford Co-operative Society under a joint scheme. 37 Pullman's glove factory was built c. 1890 on …
A History of the County of Oxford
… but it remained a small community of tradesmen, craftsmen, and royal servants. Service in the park and household is denoted by 13th-century surnames 67 such as … burned outside their houses. 45 Failure to establish a railway link until 1890 adversely affected the town's …
A History of the County of Oxford
… land outside the park so that men might build hospitia, and he granted a market to the new residents. 5 The story is … Woodstock was one of Henry's principal residences before and after his association with Rosamund and indeed the town … through Woodstock were carrying London travellers to the railway at Steventon (Berks.), and by 1852 coaches were …
A History of the County of Oxford
… New Woodstock was incorporated in 1453 75 the borough and its customs were ancient. The plots laid out at the … in local services, and in 1889 approved the Woodstock Railway Co.'s plans for the station. 74 In the earlier 20th … the duke; by 1924 there was an arrangement with Abingdon joint hospital board. The council's residual responsibility …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the union of Wells, hundred of Wells-Forum, E. division of Somerset, 1 mile (W.) from Wells; containing, with the tything of Yarley, and part of Wookey-Hole, 1187 inhabitants. The living is a … and Purbeck, liberty of Bindon, Wareham division of Dorset, 6 miles (W. by S.) from Wareham; containing 505 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… acres on both sides of the river Frome between 200 ft. and 50 ft. above O.D. The S. part slopes from Chalk in the … is orientated N.S. Building commenced in 1839 when the Dorset County Chronicle announced (31 Jan. 1839) that 'a plan … been rebuilt. Broomhill Bridge, see Moreton, Monument (4). Railway Station, and Gatekeepers' Cottages at Bailey's Drove …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… lords of Alvington manor, it was determined between 1146 and 1169 that Tintern should receive all parish dues from … was related to Thomas Bryan of Badminton 37 and William Somerset (1859- 1902) was the son of Lord William Somerset and a cousin of Henry, Duke of Beaufort (d. 1899). …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… at Aluredston. Three demesne servants were employed, and 22 boonworks at haymaking and 102 boonworks at harvest … Laurence was a contractor for the Avonmouth docks and railway. The lease expired in 1876 and the quarry went out of … shops. 62 A surgeon was licensed in 1731, 63 and William Somerset, rector from 1859 to 1902, practised as a doctor in …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… a parish of scattered hamlets lying midway between Lydney and Chepstow. Roughly rectangular in shape, it rises from the … the parish, comprising 3,303 a. excluding river foreshore and tidal water. 1 The area included Madgett, a detached … of 1,110 in 1851, perhaps partly due to the presence of railway navvies in the district that year. The population …