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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… (G.b.) Witham. The Parish Church of St Nicholas. (O.S. 6 in. (a)xxxiv. S.E. (b)xxxv. S.W. (c)xliv. N.E. (d)xlv. N.W.) Witham is a … moulded ceiling-beams and joists. W. side b(8). Woolpack Inn, 50 yards N.E. of the church, has large 18th-century and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… ECONOMIC LIFE 1500 TO 1800 From the 16th century Witney's economy was dominated by its expanding cloth industry, … riots. Conditions improved only with the blanket industry's recovery in the early 19th century, as piecemeal … 110 At first meetings were held in the Staple Hall Inn, and a barn on the west side of High Street was used as a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… adapting to new conditions largely accounting for the town's continued prosperity: in 1851 blanket-workers still … 2 and in the 1880s the industry was still called the town's 'staple' trade. 3 Difficulties in the 1850s, when the … and provision merchants, established on the former Lamb Inn site at the corner of Corn Street and Market Place by the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and Curbridge were added in 1932, bringing the town's area to 1,306 a., and intakes from Curbridge (47 a.) and … the river and surrounded by low-lying alluvium. The river's surviving eastern branch formed the town's and parish's … 77 In the 1840s the post office was in the Staple Hall Inn; it was subsequently moved to near the Methodist chapel …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and the excavated remains of the bishop of Winchester's manor house show that there was high-quality stone building … been built parallel to the street. A house on High Street's east side, described in 1704, had a parlour, hall, entry, … and by the 1640s it may have been part of the White Hart Inn, although both those buildings possibly lay a little …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and the right to deliver and return royal writs, the king's officers being forbidden entry into the bishop's manors except in connection with Crown pleas. 1 In 1284 the … was mentioned. That building became the Three Crowns Inn before 1766, and in 1783 the bridewell was an outbuilding …
A History of the County of Oxford
… east, and almost certainly it long predated the borough's foundation. 1 The ecclesiastical parish, conterminous with … probably an error, arising possibly from the parish church's location just outside the borough boundary within Curbridge … much of the collapse of an upper floor at the White Hart Inn in 1653, during performance of a play which, he claimed, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the growing centrality of Nonconformity to the town's social and civic as well as religious life (Figs. 546). An … Anglican churches together, overall attendance at the town's five Nonconformist meeting houses remained higher, … his wife's family the Townsends, owners of the Staple Hall Inn, 37 and the following year William Castle, a Witney …
A History of the County of Essex
… third highest in Lexden hundred, 20 reflecting Wivenhoe's growth as a port whose develop- ment was linked with the … with most of the south of Wivenhoe being the lord's demesne except for a considerable amount of copyhold land … the river in the 18th century. 76 In 1630 Colchester inn- keepers and vintners paid a Wivenhoe man wharfage for …
A History of the County of Essex
… a post office by 1853, probably the one which was in Queen's Road in 1887, and a sub post office at Wivenhoe Cross by … settlement. 23 The place name, Wivenhoe, meaning Wifa's ridge or spur of land, 24 suggests early Anglo-Saxon … alleys, cards, and slidethrift were played, probably in an inn. 60 Fifteen inns were recorded in 1712, 9 in 1762, 8 inns …