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A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Introduction: Architecture and Buildings ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDINGS 1 Building Materials … to import brick from far afield before the opening of the railway, although no local brickworks are known. Houses … looms in 1858, 169 presumably in anticipation of the railway; a power-loom shed was built south of the mill pond …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Local government LOCAL GOVERNMENT Seignorial Jurisdiction and Borough Courts Borough Autonomy By the mid 13th century … within their estates, including freedom from toll, murage, and attendance at shire or hundred courts; the right to … successor Arthur Lea Leigh. 289 Until the advent of the railway the need to haul coal by road probably limited the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… reflected the experience of many small cloth towns, 1 and may have had its origins in an earlier tradition of local … accused of disseminating the scriptures in English and of questioning Catholic doctrine. Several of the group seem to have been associated with the cloth industry and to have had London trade links, those from Witney …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… W. by N.) from Wallingford; containing 125 inhabitants, and comprising 869 a. 2 r. 19 p. The living is a rectory, … of land, chiefly arable; it is traversed by the road and railway from Norwich to Yarmouth, and bounded on the south by … a manufactory for fire-bricks and draining-tiles. There is railway communication with the neighbourhood of Wolsingham, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Andrew) WIVELISCOMBE ( St. Andrew), a market-town and parish, in the union of Wellington, W. division of the … of which 70 are common or waste. The London and Brighton railway passes through. The living is a perpetual curacy; net … the poor. The Bedford branch of the London and Birmingham railway passes on the north-west of the town. Assemblies, …
A History of the County of Essex
… Wivenhoe Manors and other estates ECONOMIC HISTORY. Between 1066 and 1086 the … of sprats were caught by stow-boats for farm manure. The railway enabled the sprats to be transported to London … A malting sold in 1859 stood near the site of the proposed railway line. 29 G. O. Green ran a brewery in Paget Road …
A History of the County of Essex
… a small town. Wivenhoe became an urban district in 1898, and remained so until 1974 when it became part of the new … it was in a 'disgraceful state' and the Tendring Hundred Railway Co. re- placed it with a new road, which had … lived in the parish in 1863. 14 The Tendring Hundred Railway opened a line from the Hythe to Wivenhoe in 1863, …
A History of the County of Essex
… nonconformity PROTESTANT NONCONFORMITY. One Quaker and a few Anabaptists were recorded in 1664. 69 John Argor … they continued until 1933. 88 In 1864 Henry Ruffnell, a railway official, held evangelical meetings, mainly for railway nav- vies, in a barn. His successor, George Carter …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… granted to the family of Clare, who gave the manor and church to Tintern Abbey, together with several granges … of the town. An act was passed in 1845 for making a railway called the Wear-Valley railway: the line runs from the Bishop-Auckland and Weardale …
A History of the County of Oxford
… left £200, the income, after payments of £1 for a sermon and 10 s. to the clerk, to be given to the poor. 93 In 1706 the money, with £20 given by David Walter (d. 1679) and £5 given by Richard Hall (probably d. 1705), was used to … 6 d. and children 2 s. 95 Part of the land was sold to the railway companies in the 1850s and the proceeds invested in …