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A History of the County of Oxford
… borough status. 1 By the early 14th century some parts of its economy were apparently contracting, notably the local … and certainly an assertion that it ceased to be 'a centre of trade' and that the borough 'hardly deserves its name' 2 … a subsidy commissioner and possibly a merchant of the Staple. 80 Richard Martin, a Witney woolman and butcher, had …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney was transformed by mechanization, the introduction of the factory system, and the emergence of large commercial family firms. 1 The blanket industry … and in the 1880s the industry was still called the town's 'staple' trade. 3 Difficulties in the 1850s, when the town's …
A History of the County of Oxford
… borough Introduction WITNEY BOROUGH Introduction The town of Witney, 1 by the river Windrush some 10 miles (16 km.) … a surcharge. 77 In the 1840s the post office was in the Staple Hall Inn; it was subsequently moved to near the … Worcester, Ludlow, or Hereford, chiefly from the Staple Hall, King's Head and White Hart inns. 82 Following …
A History of the County of Oxford
… town, 2 and the parish church and the excavated remains of the bishop of Winchester's manor house show that there was … 1850s county magistrates held courts in the town hall or Staple Hall Inn. 197 A purpose-built County Court, on the … ended in a donkey race from the church door to the Staple Hall [inn] and back', with 'every rider . . . placed …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Courts Borough Autonomy By the mid 13th century bishops of Winchester had secured wide-ranging liberties within their … in the town hall or in local inns such as the Lamb, the Staple Hall, and the King's Arms. A vestry- or committee-room … by one of the nurses before 1891, moved to the former Staple Hall Inn on Bridge street, but closed about 1901. 274 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… nonconformity PROTESTANT NONCONFORMITY The strength of Protestant Dissent in Witney, a dominant feature of the … help from his wife's family the Townsends, owners of the Staple Hall Inn, 37 and the following year William Castle, a … as a place of worship in 1971. 58 A scheme to convert the Staple Hall Inn into a chapel was overruled on planning …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… probably coppiced; 7 in 1556 there were said to be 38 a. of wood in Wombridge, worth 10 s. an acre. 8 Among the … coppice (82 a.) in Priorslee. 9 By 1847 only 6 a. of wood remained in Wombridge and none in Priorslee. 10 … and vegetables from the surrounding countryside were a staple. No tolls or dues were collected then, but c. 1935 the …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Not to be confused with WEED ASH, these are the residues of ASHES from burning WOOD. This crude form of POTASH had to be processed to concentrate the content of … but more correctly to WOOLLEN fabrics made with short staple CARDED WOOL as opposed to WORSTED. There were many …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… inclosure c. 1816 open-field arable occupied the centre of the parish, between heath in the north-west and closes and … three principal manors had separate field systems. 96 That of Ditton Valence was apparently cultivated in three shifts … in the cereals grown in the Middle Ages, beyond the staple of wheat and oats. 41 Demesne flocks, numbering 520, …
The Environs of London
… WOODFORD Etymology. Situation. Boundaries. Quantity of land. Soil. This place was so called from the ford in the … wood, where Woodford-bridge now is. It lies in the hundred of Becontree, at the distance of about seven miles and a half from Whitechapel church. The …