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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the Baptist) SODBURY, CHIPPING ( St. John the Baptist), a market-town and parish, and the head of a union, in the Lower … is only a short distance from the town on the west. The market is on Thursday; and fairs are held on May 23rd and … Lynesack. Soham (St. Andrew) SOHAM ( St. Andrew), a market-town and parish, in the union of Newmarket, hundred of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… site at Carfax; in 1959 new premises were built at no. 7 Market Street. 24 A Co-operative Society existing in 1830 …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… land in the kingdom, within such easy reach of the London market; having also a sufficiency of good pasture and meadow … neighbourhood of London, by providing the tenants with a market and the landlords with a source of supply for free … to them. Norden, in the Speculum, only mentions four market towns, Brentford, Staines, Uxbridge, and Harrow, but …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the primitive wool-trade largely depended. Five of its market towns, Burford, Chipping Norton, Henley, Thame, and … represented his customary services might exceed their market worth. Thus at Aston a virgatarius commuted for 12 s. … its merchant gild and craft gilds, and its elaborate market system, stood somewhat apart from the lesser towns, as …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Fairs Palmer's Index (and the Report of the Commission on Market Rights and Tolls, vol. liii, 188) gives a list of all …
A History of the County of Essex
… of vacant land. It might be agricultural land (the last market garden even in Plaistow did not disappear until 1905 … to a vendor who was willing to take rather less than the market value and to contribute 40 per cent. of the purchase …
Finance and trade under Edward III
… how he lingered to spend his pocketmoney in the mediæval market that crowded the space in front of St. Bartholomew's … and Surrey, the produce of which was brought to the London market in his own barges, that he was a purveyor to the King … the riff-raff of the city" Threading their way across the market, in front of St. Nicholas' Church, they pass the gate …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… 26 Pictures were shown in the corn exchange, Saturday Market, early in 1911 and the Picture Playhouse was opened … 38 The longest lived was Green's library, in Saturday Market, which was said to have been started in 1793 and … in Beverley included a subscription room in Saturday Market by 1823 and another in Cross Street built in 1830. The …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… by local allusions, as in 1782 when the stage represented Market Place and an actor vaulted over King William's statue. … Ho. 89 1910 1923 Said to have closed as cinema 1923. Market Place, Gaiety 90 1913 1915 Used as warehouse by 1965. … 164 The New Subscription Library was established in Market Place in 1807. 165 By 1826 it had changed its name to …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… causeway. Its southern continuation was by 1650 called Market way. 78 Other roads south of the village, such as … former soldiers, took over the former Court House by the market place as their clubhouse. 58 Still active in the late …