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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… when in the settlement of a dispute between Bishop Hotham and Sir Geoffrey de Coleville over their manors of Wisbech and Walsoken, certain houses erected by the latter at his end … in May 1852 showed that 73,760 foot passengers, 2,436 carriages, 3,669 horses, and 3,250 beasts crossed the bridge …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Introduction WISBECH Wisbech is the largest and only corporate town in the Isle, and the nodal point for … Lynn through Wisbech and Spalding to Boston. 14 The first railway line to reach Wisbech, that from St. Ives and March, … year the line was prolonged to join the East Anglian Railway at Watlington (now Magdalen Road) and a new station …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… OUTFALL, CANAL The original combined outfall of the Ouse and Nene, by Wisbech, had been diverted along Well Creek into … fairly steadily to a maximum of 167,442 in 1847. 28 Railway competition caused a rapid decline to 88,082 in 1854. … was achieved in 1845, and though the opening of the railway shortly afterwards was a severe blow to this trade, …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… lies for the most part on the southern side of the Sence, and the river and its tributaries form the parish boundary on … 300 ft. within Newton Harcourt and has three locks. The railway from Leicester to Market Harborough runs to the north of the canal. Canal and railway divide the church and manor-house on the south from …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a parish, in the hundred of South Witchford, union and Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 5 miles (W.) from Ely, … from wells. Here is a station of the Eastern Counties railway, 12 miles from that of Colchester. In 1846 an act was passed for a railway from Maldon, by Witham, to Braintree; it was opened …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the union of Bodmin, E. division of the hundred of Pyder and of the county of Cornwall, 5 miles (W. by S.) from … consists of loam. The Oxford canal and the Trent-Valley railway pass through. The living is a discharged vicarage, … coatings, webbings, horse-girthing, tilting for barges and wagons, felting for paper-makers, and mops, are likewise made …
A History of the County of Oxford
… cloth industry, already unrivalled within the county and marked, from the early 17th century, by increasing specialization in blankets and other broadcloths. 1 Thenceforth until the 20th century … fortunes were closely linked to those of the woollen and cloth industries nationally, although it retained the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Economic history: markets and fairs MARKETS AND FAIRS Witney had a weekly market and two annual fairs from the early 13th century, though …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by mechanization, the introduction of the factory system, and the emergence of large commercial family firms. 1 The … emigration, 4 may be partly attributable to the lack of a railway, which added significantly to transport costs and, by … were cited frequently by promoters of the Witney railway, 5 who soon after its opening in 1861 were credited …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of Oxford, originated as a planned medieval market town and borough, laid out by a bishop of Winchester in probably … southwards to take in the church, Mount House, and railway goods station, and northwards to take in Witney Mills … followed Emma's dyke and the northern edge of the railway line (excluding the passenger station), and the …