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A History of the County of Gloucester
… Gloucestershire, it had c. 5,000 enrolled students. 87 Working foresters visited the Forest of Dean for practical … for them there. 89 Known as the School of Forestry for Working Foresters, 90 it moved from the deputy gaveller's …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… By 1282, however, when as many as 60 itinerant forges were working in the Forest, efforts to restrict ironworking were … demesne woodland. 65 The few records of the Forest and the working of its administration between the mid 14th century … of the surrounding parishes. Forest commoners, mostly working or retired miners with small flocks of sheep, were …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… bailiwicks seem to have shared payments from colliers working in those areas, while the woodward of Abenhall … or squatters born in the Forest might obtain them by working seven years in the mines. In 1680 it restricted the … 1838, following a report by commissioners investigating conditions in the Forest, mining was subject to a statutory …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… royal demesne and surrounding parishes; the inefficient working of the bloomeries left a legacy of mounds of … 600 dwellings by 1787. The new settlers lived in primitive conditions in roughly-built cottages, and evangelical clergy …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Forest grew with an almost total lack of services. Squalid conditions developed in Cinderford, where in the late 1860s … a local board of health was formed to improve sanitary conditions in the East Dean part of Cinderford but its … by the absence of an outfall system in East Dean. 43 Conditions in Cinderford improved after 1875 when the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Lyd) brook as it descends to the river Wye. 31 A mill was working there in the mid 13th century 32 and an inhabitant of …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… to a new memorial hall in the village in 1920. 87 A working men's club had its own premises in 1960. 88 Parkend … it merged with the Gloucester society. 47 Yorkley had a working men's institute in 1892. 48 A new institute was built …