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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Withiel (St. Uvell) WITHIEL ( St. Uvell), a parish, in the union of Bodmin, E. division of the hundred of Pyder and of … The parish comprises 2740 acres, of which 370 are common or waste. It anciently belonged to the priory at Bodmin, of … containing a population of 22,963. The Roman Akeman-street passes near the town. Witston, or Whitson WITSTON, or …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… modern and the S. wall of the chancel has been re-built or re-faced. Architectural DescriptionThe Chancel (21 ft. by … ft.) has an E. window all modern except for the late 13th or early 14th-century splays and rear-arch. In the N. wall is … the E. b(12). Cottage, on the S. side of the road at Duke Street, m. W. of the church, has a thatched roof. b(13). …
A History of the County of Oxford
… trustees, but not directly administering charities or keeping accounts. Two houses on the site of No. 45 Corn Street, also owned by the town in 1613, were similarly vested … property: Ashcombe left a house on the west side of High Street, and the clothier Andrew Holloway (d. 1688) six houses …
A History of the County of Oxford
… supplemented their income by small-scale arable farming or stock-rearing, either in closes outside the town or in gardens and plots attached to their houses. The … seem to have left crops or livestock, and the small Corn Street plots on which weavers' cottages were built in the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… with the cooperation of the Transport and General Workers' Union. New buildings allowed installation of new machinery … with national recession. Smith and Philips' Bridge Street and Crawley mills were closed in 1975, having been … firms continued as significant employers until the 1970s or later. In the mid 1960s Crawford Collets employed 250 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… as well as more obvious rivals such as Burford, Bicester, or Abingdon (then Berks.). Even by the 1540s and 1550s, when … the Staple Hall Inn, and a barn on the west side of High Street was used as a blanket hall, 111 but by 1720 the … prosperous to erect a purpose-built hall on High Street, completed by late 1721. 112 There was, however, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… growth and prosperity, market and fair income declined or remained low, suggesting that much of the town's trading … Green: there is no evidence of an early market on Corn Street, whose name derives from quarries at its western end … 53 By then loaded carts and waggons stood also in Corn Street, where some corn was sold, and graduated tolls were …
A History of the County of Oxford
… with some leading clothiers operating on a national or international scale. More general resurgence of the town's … and the laying-out of 16 new burgage plots along Bridge Street in 121920, presumably reflected both steady demand and rising population. 4 The Bridge Street extension linked the borough with plots laid out in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a tenth of the working population in 1851 were farmers or agricultural labourers, with another 3 per cent engaged in … a small horse- or donkey-powered spinning factory on Corn Street. 14 Power-looms seem not to have been introduced until … formed in 1823 was evidently a benefit club rather than a union, and had apparently closed by 1838. 37 38. Witney …