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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… The beneficiaries were to be poor workers in the clothing industry. In 1903 some of the income was spent in maintaining …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Westbury Industry and trade INDUSTRY AND TRADE. Like the other towns in the basin of the … Bradford Avon, Westbury emerged as a centre of the cloth industry of that region towards the end of the 15th century. …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Marsh the more populous district with a thriving weaving industry. 6 In the 16th century the town of Westbury was … public buildings bear witness to the revival of the cloth industry and the position of the Laverton family in Westbury … street bear witness to Chapmanslade's former weaving industry. 39 Almost opposite the church is a much altered …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… on the spatial and horizontal system employed by modern industry. The oldest part of the Angel Mill buildings appears …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… in one of the communal workshops connected with the cloth industry until 1799 when a chapel was built in the village to …
Old and New London
… which is an inscription setting forth his "indefatigable industry in illustrating our British antiquities, and his …
A History of the County of Somerset
… until the 20th century as a pleasure fair. 2 TRADE AND INDUSTRY A furnace or forge was recorded in 1308 and in 1516 …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… the export of which would be unlikely to affect British industry [Acts (1786)]. It was probably a saddler's TOOL with …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… century: in 1821 more families were supported by trade and industry than by agriculture, and only slightly fewer in 1811 …