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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Chillington works consist of four blast-furnaces, forge, mill, &c., producing 400 tons of finished iron per week, in …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… his wife the Lady Amicia, demised, during their lives, the Mill called Ingram, scituate on the Leene, between Lenton and … the Prior, and the Covent of Lenton, 8 H. 4, to their said Mill, upon the same terms; and Thomas Elinham tee Prior, and the said Covent, 1 H. 6, demised the said Mill, with the said suit, to John Botre for ten years for 3l. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of 3 s. a year, which seems to have been paid by the mill. 30 The abbey's rights over its servants may have led to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a.), presumably former arable and perhaps including the mill furlong recorded c. 1540. 92 The field boundaries … Weller, probably already, as he was in 1541, tenant of the mill and fishery; in 1543 he was assessed on £20 worth of … in Wolvercote in the Middle Ages. The high value of the mill in 1541 suggests that it was already a fulling mill, as …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1857 Thomas Combe built a schoolroom on the north side of Mill Street for evening classes for the mill workers. There is no further clear record of the school, … 29, 225. Inf. from Oxf. Educ. Cttee. H. Carter, Wolvercote Mill, 36, 57; O.R.O., MSS. Oxf. Dioc. c 335, f. 438; c 344, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… through the meadows to cross the Thames at Wytham mill. 66 A road running between the Banbury and Woodstock … but had the disadvantage of crossing the Wolvercote mill stream twice, whereas the more easterly route avoided … The road from Wolvercote to Wytham crossed the Wolvercote mill stream and the main stream of the Thames by bridges that …
A History of the County of Oxford
… reached its peak of £418 in 1832 99 (when the paper mill was closed for at least part of the year), 1 the cost …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Arun canal passes through the parish. In the village is a mill for dressing leather, which affords employment to forty … through the parish, turning in its course several paper, mill-board, and flour mills; and many of the females are …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… only regular traffic carried by the canal was flour to the mill at Wrockwardine Wood. 80 A horse-drawn railway was built …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… for tradesmen's horses. 17 Mills. There was an iron mill at Wombridge at the Dissolution, probably near the … least one of the mills was converted from the earlier iron mill. 19 By 1709 there were three mills or wheels at … and they remained in use until at least 1760. 20 A mill lay immediately east of Wombridge church in 1847; it …