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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… contains a population of 15,407. In the neighbourhood is a mineral spring, which was formerly in great repute. Witham-Friary … 400 a year. About a mile from the chapel, a chalybeate spring was discovered, and named Holy Well, in 1656; but it …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… of a modern arable field for some 200 yds., adjacent to a spring. The debris includes hypocaust and other tiles, and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… local industry. 45 Since ships usually set sail in spring such markets may, as in the 18th century, have … Dr Margaret Yates. Above (medieval cloth ind.). e.g. Thos. Spring of Lavenham (Suff.), Wm. Stumpe of Malmesbury …
A History of the County of Oxford
… blanket industry was transformed by the introduction of spring-looms and mechanized factory-spinning, the largely … been introduced until the late 1850s or 1860s, 15 though spring-looms, which could be operated by one rather than two … dependent on work from Witney. 35 Initial hostility to the spring-loom was widespread in the town, weavers fearing that …
A History of the County of Oxford
… begun by his father in 1839: the eleven northern houses of Spring Terrace, built by 1899, were owned by Clarke in 1910, … or nearby. 160 In 1873 the Corn Street factory housed 13 spring-looms and three ordinary looms; it closed about 1880, … industry, was not achieved painlessly: introduction of the spring-loom and of mechanized factory-spinning met at first …