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A History of the County of Gloucester
… Forest of Dean Industry INDUSTRY Its timber and mineral resources have given the formerly extraparochial … mining similarly varied. In the mid 1240s the constable of St. Briavels castle and the woodwards of Blakeney and … ore to his Dowlais ironworks near Merthyr Tydfil, 93 and Anthony Hill, a South Wales ironmaster licensed in 1832 to …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Gloucestershire in the angle formed by the rivers Severn and Wye as they approach their confluence. A large tract of … of parishes, most of them, like the demesne itself, in St. Briavels hundred. After 1668 in practice, and after 1833 … large parts of the demesne in the 1620s. At the same time his search for revenue led him to reimpose the forest law on …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Forest of Dean Local government and public services LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC SERVICES … received regular help in 1726 98 and a child abandoned at St. White's was reared at the county's expense from 1768. 99 … bridges were repaired by the surveyor general of woods and his local deputy on instruction from the Treasury and the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… in 1653 was evidently in Weston under Penyard (Herefs.) 16 and the Quaker meeting attended by George Fox in 1668 17 was … and its minister Richard Snaith 44 conducted baptisms in St. Anthony's well near Gunn's Mills in 1864. 45 The meeting had …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… cabins inhabited by ironworkers, charcoal burners, and others while their operations were in progress or until … of Pembroke in 1612 77 and to Sir Baynham Throckmorton and his partners in 1636 permitted the building of cabins … royal demesne, including some on the outlying tracts near St. Briavels and at Walmore near Westbury, were presented; by …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… usual controls of local government, fostered individualism and disdain for authority. 93 An introspective society … They built churches and schools 99 and one of them likened his work to that of a missionary in New Zealand. 1 Missionary … of the extraparochial Forest extending to Upper Bilson, St. White's, and Ruspidge. 74 The White Hart inn, on the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Survey affords conclusive evidence of the widespread and considerable character of the woods of Middlesex in the … ( nemus ad sepes faciendas), namely Harlesden, Cranford, St. Pancras, and part of Ossulstone. At Enfield mention is … blunder in statement, as well as in date, made by Stow in his Survey of London as first printed in 1598, and repeated …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in fact it was, in the main, woodland down to the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The ancient chase of Woodstock lay … monarch established a hunting-lodge at Woodstock, where his Saxon predecessors had often sojourned, and surrounded … of loads of dry wood for fuel to the Oxford hospitals of St. John Baptist and St. Bartholomew, to the Dominican and …
A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 18
… Wiltshire Victoria County History Committee. The origin and constitution of the committee are described in volumes … This volume was prepared under the editorship of Professor Anthony Fletcher, who retired as Director in December 2003, … for allowing access to his muniments at Wimborne St Giles, Dorset. Special mention must be made of the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… volume, West Cambridgeshire, published in 1968. Terrain and geological conditions in the western part of the county … possible to study the history of the drainage of the fens and its influence upon the landscape. In north-east … the exceptions are from aerial photographs by Dr. J. K. S. St Joseph, Director of Aerial Photography in the University …