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A History of the County of Northampton
… a broad strip of land bounded on the north-west by Roade and on the south-east by Hartwell. On the south Ashton was separated from Grafton Regis by the river Tove, and on the south-west from Stoke Bruerne by a tributary. In … made in the early 1950s. 26 There were also two or three shoemakers in Ashton in the mid 19th century. 27 More …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. There were 5 villani and 3 bordars on Eatons manor in 1086, 61 but no later … was evidently listed, however, under Steyning manor, and presumably also under what was later King's Barns manor … much land in the parish belonged to those two manors and to Sele priory and its successor Magdalen College, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY Agriculture Open Fields and Commons By the early 13th century until inclosure in 1814 … contained four open fields, two south of Asthall village and two to the north-east (Fig. 18). In 1814 they totalled c. … 185 Other tradesmen in the mid 19th century included shoemakers and masons, and in 1861 there were five carters …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… etc., having a long pointed shank with a cutting edge and a screw point, and a HANDLE fixed at right angles to the top of the shank, … which holes may be pierced, especially the type used by SHOEmakers; a PIERCER, pricker, BODKIN. Awls varied according …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… 8 ploughs were employed on the demesne at Avening, 17 and the same number of ploughs, each with 8 oxen, was in use … sheep-farming; only 4 ploughs were used by the 1170s, 19 and c. 1200 it was said that there ought to be 8 demesne … and tailors until 1939, wheelwrights until 1923, and shoemakers until 1919. 71 Two butchers and a baker were …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Ayr - Ayton Ayr AYR, a sea-port, burgh, and market-town, in the district of Kyle, county of Ayr, of … it is the capital, 77 miles (S. W. by W.) from Edinburgh, and 34 (S. S. W.) from Glasgow; containing 8264 inhabitants. … squaremen, hammermen, tailors, skinners, coopers, weavers, shoemakers, dyers, and butchers. The magistrates have …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… PARISH, which lies east of the Fosse way between Ilchester and Shepton Mallet, comprises the village of Babcary to the … partly encircled by the river Cary, the hamlets of Higher and Lower Foddington on low hills to the east, Steart on the … and its keeper usually had another trade including shoemaking and shopkeeping. 1 It was altered and extended in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Bampton and Weald Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. AGRICULTURE. In … of a large unitary estate which cut across later field and township boundaries, 38 but by the 14th century and … in 1861 included over 20 cordwainers, cobblers, or shoemakers, and several tailors, drapers, bakers, grocers, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Bampton and Weald Nonconformity NONCONFORMITY. Some vicars in the mid … 17th century, only two or three in the late 17th century and early 18th, when they included a shoemaker and a labourer, and none in 1738. 7 Up to 8 papists, mostly …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Buildings. The castle, manor-house, vicarages, gaol, and other public buildings, as well as the domestic buildings … house. At that date part of the east end was taken down and the filling removed from the windows. 3 In 1851 it was … stretch of moulded plinth may be original medieval work, and the roof-structure (mostly concealed by wall-paper) with …