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Henley: Communications
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… as a coaching centre. In 183940 the Great Western railway line from London to Reading left Henley stranded, … of a branch line to Henley in 1857, however, the railway took over many of the earlier functions of both river … for Friday Street or Market Place, was built on the town's southern fringe within Rotherfield Greys parish, with a new, …
Henley: Local Government
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… and in 1947 the board's remit was extended to include the southern part of the borough. 14 The board continued until …
Henley: Origin and Development of the Town
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… probably following the line of Grim's Ditch along the southern edge of the manorial inclosure, was laid out before … was underway by 1349, when there was a house on the southern corner of Bell Street and Bell Lane. 9 By then, and … trade, precipitated by the opening of the Great Western Railway, prompted a period of protracted economic difficulty …
Henley: Outlying Farms and Agriculture
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… fields included 'gylden dene' (probably Dean field, on the southern edge of the town), Middle field, Park field, Thames … several leasehold farms had been established in the southern half of the parish. In 1743 the Badgemore estate …
Henley: Religious History
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… the parish boundary at the town's creation, which left the southern side of Friday Street within Rotherfield Greys … to the new church of Holy Trinity on the town's southern edge. 2 Total income in 1852 was still over 420, but … Bacchus. In 18889 Bacchus oversaw the building near the railway station of a new Roman Catholic church of the Sacred …
Henley: Social and Political History
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… c. 18001914 The bypassing of Henley by the Great Western Railway's London-Bristol line (completed in 1841) severely … 5 A separate National infant school for the growing southern suburbs was opened on Greys Hill in 1850, soon after … deprived areas of England, though even in Henley some southern areas contained pockets of minor deprivation, and …
Henley: Town Buildings
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… heavily moulded timbers and cusped wind braces. The two southern bays have a central arch-braced truss, and despite … Probably there were stables below. The new west range's southern end included a contemporary open hall with a … workers such as a gas fitter, 9 carpenters and joiners, a railway porter, a tinker, and a drayman. Significant numbers …
Henley: Urban Economic History
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… 1840 when most long-distance coaches were diverted to new railway stations elsewhere. Although the exporting of grain … as hotels, developments strengthened by the opening of a railway branch line in 1857. The regatta and tourism … staff in 2003. Most worked at Perpetual Park on the town's southern outskirts. 18 Businesses since c. 1980 A significant …
Survey of London
… compartment, beneath the tower, to the northern and southern compartments of the narthex. Due to the line of the …
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
… to merchants and mariners throughout all the southern and western parts of England; and notwithstanding …