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A History of the County of Oxford
… and a potter. Evidence adduced for a substantial pottery industry in Woodstock is weak, 68 requiring the assumption … Wood and Robert Plot, aware of the important Oxford glove industry, made no reference to gloving in Woodstock, nor is … and style to gloves still made in the town. 66 The glove industry's decline in Oxford began in the later 17th century …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Disraeli visited the duchess of Marlborough's school of industry, established before 1871 at no. 22 Park Street; in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… reduced in the 5th duke's time (1817-40); the gloving industry, hardly mechanized until the later 19th century, … largely caused by foreign competition, affecting the industry nationally; above all the decline of coaching and … but many inhabitants were employed in the Oxford motor industry. 18 Suburban expansion, particularly in Hensington, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… members in 1803 and 260 or more in 181315. 58 The glove industry suffered a recession in the 1820s but the rise in …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… arched heads with keystones. East Burton a(32) East Burton Dairy, house (831870), of one storey and attics and with …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… 680 gallons of cider. 53 In 1921 it was primarily a dairy farm, although c. 200 a. were arable. 54 The other … 66 By 1969 Madgett and Sheepcot farms had both become dairy farms. The emphasis on dairying is also shown in the … been raised c. 1670 and was obstructing barges. 20 OTHER INDUSTRY AND TRADE. The River Severn provided the parish with …
A History of the County of Somerset
… and coins are thought to have been part of a salt-making industry. 1 Woolavington village forms a grid at the junction … the house comprised a hall, two butteries, kitchen, and dairy with chambers over each of them and outbuildings. 23 It … to further conversion of arable to grass and a small dairy holding had 6 cowstalls and piggeries. 11 A farmer who …
A History of the County of Oxford
… fashionable tourists provided a ready market; the gloving industry survived in Woodstock and surrounding villages into …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… council and sublet as smallholdings. 1 After 1945 some dairy herds were replaced by cattle reared for beef. 2 From … parish as part of East Wick farm and devoted to arable and dairy farming. 3 The estate called Wootton in 1086 had on it … was added to East Wick farm, thereafter an arable and dairy farm of c. 1,500 a. A new dairy, Lady Margaret Farm, …