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Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… Windrush WINDRUSH (12 miles N.E. of Cirencester) (1) Windrush Camp (SP 181123), univallate hill-fort, unexcavated, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… from London to Cheltenham and Gloucester, and on the river Windrush, a stream abounding with trout and cray-fish, much … to the peculiar properties of the water of the Windrush. The weavers were incorporated in the tenth year of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… at what may both have been early crossings of the river Windrush. 1 Outlying mills at Hailey (near modern New Mill) …
A History of the County of Oxford
… markets and fairs, for improved navigability of the river Windrush as far as the Thames, and for more 'settled … Plot, describing the industry in 1677, mentioned only the Windrush's supposed suitability for scouring, a 'peculiar …
A History of the County of Oxford
… R. Plot, Nat. Hist. Oxon. (1677), 27880, emphasizing the Windrush's alleged nitrous qualities. Below, Curbridge (econ. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… BOROUGH Introduction The town of Witney, 1 by the river Windrush some 10 miles (16 km.) west of Oxford, originated as … part of the town stands at an early crossing of the river Windrush, on a limestone cornbrash island formerly lying … what was later Curbridge, and possibly north of the river Windrush into Hailey. Presumably those boundaries were …
A History of the County of Oxford
… century. The house was probably that south of the river Windrush and north of Mill Street sold to John and Maximilian … construction. Fulling mills were established on the river Windrush from the Middle Ages, 162 but probably only with the … hall above for parish business and for meetings of the Windrush Lodge of Freemasons; a new purposebuilt church house …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a new main sewer flushed with water piped from the river Windrush was laid along High Street, though there was still … 251 Sewage and industrial waste discharged into the Windrush, which damaged fish stocks and in 1897 prompted …
A History of the County of Oxford
… curtilage which ran from the churchyard wall to the river Windrush, and which included the site and grounds of the … the north by Farm Mill Lane, and on the east by the river Windrush; by the mid 13th century it was evidently walled. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Anglo-Saxon parochiae, with territories north of the river Windrush dependent on a probable minster at Minster Lovell, … (serving also as a child clinic and social centre) on the Windrush Valley housing estate; 131 St Luke's was managed by …