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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 county of Cornwall, 5 miles (W. by S.) from Bodmin; …
A History of the County of Oxford
… economic life 1500 to 1800 ECONOMIC LIFE 1500 TO 1800 From the 16th century Witney's economy was dominated by its expanding cloth industry, already unrivalled within the county and marked, from the early 17th century, by increasing specialization in …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Woodford WOODFORD The ancient parish of Woodford lies between Salisbury and Amesbury, on the western side of the River Avon. The parish is bounded on the east by the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1:3,348 (approx. 19 in. to 1 mile). Quitrents imposed on the town's original burgages survived until the 1930s. They were listed in a survey of 1279 and as 'the king's rents' in 1468-9. 48 Later the corporation …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Economic history Economic history In the century after its foundation the town prospered, acquiring a fair in addition to its … of tradesmen, craftsmen, and royal servants. Service in the park and household is denoted by 13th-century surnames 67 …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… protestant dissenter. Ref.110 BA1/1/324/29 (1740) To the worshipfull the justices of the peace of the county of Worcester at their quarter …
A History of the County of Essex
… Wormingford Introduction WORMINGFORD THE ancient parish of Wormingford on the south bank of the river Stour, 6 miles north- west of Colchester and 8 …
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… remitted because he married an Alderman's daughter and at the instance of Copston [sic] Bampfeild, Bart. [Devon and … to James Senols on 7 April 1779, and admitted freeman of the Upholders Co. by servitude on 3 May 1786. Took app. named … at Westminster in 1749. Listed as a Prisoner for Debt in the Poultry Compter, London in London Gazette, 27 May 1755. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Economic history Economic history The presence in Yarnton of detached parts of Begbroke parish, 14 and the sharing of lot meadows along the Thames, may indicate that the parishes once shared a …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… YATESBURY Yatesbury village stands 7 km. east of Calne. 27 The parish, 1,674 a. (677 ha.), was absorbed by Cherhill parish in 1934. 28 The parish boundary is marked by few prominent natural features, although on the east its roughly straight lines link or approach several …