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A History of the County of Oxford
… from the early 17th century, by increasing specialization in blankets and other broadcloths. 1 Thenceforth until the … the period some 3540 per cent of recorded trades in the borough were associated with the cloth industry, with … Oxfordshire: within the county only Oxford, Banbury, and Henley had larger populations. 6 The number of surviving …
A History of the County of Oxford
… setbacks, seems to have thrived. Fairs were founded in 1202 and 1231, the borough was extended in 121920, and there seems no doubt that by the 1270s Witney … man was conveying wool to a Lombard merchant at London via Henley. 79 Witney woolmen in the early 15th century included …
A History of the County of Oxford
… town and borough, laid out by a bishop of Winchester in probably the late 12th or early 13th century within a … ranking within the county behind only Oxford, Banbury, and Henley, though some Berkshire towns, notably Abingdon and … a millstone brought from London was carted overland from Henley. 87 In the late 17th century, after Thames navigation …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Buildings ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDINGS 1 Building Materials In the 1640s Witney was described as a stone-built town, 2 … manorial and (possibly) town quarries were recorded in 1479. 5 The master mason Thomas of Witney, who worked at … with the 'wild, staring congregation' he found at Henley, and he repeatedly praised the Witney Methodists as a …
Alumni Oxonienses
… Woodhall. Woodarde, Nicholas s. Christopher, of Mechlen in Flanders, gent. Magdalen Hall, matric. 9 Oct., 1635, aged … 1642 (its first graduate), said to be S.T.D.; a minister in Salisbury, and at Newbury, Berks, ejected 1662 for … Licences, ed. Foster. Woolley, Richard s. Richard, of Henley (co. Worcester), sacerd. Balliol Coll., matric. 12 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Woothorpe - Wootton-Wawen Woothorpe WOOTHORPE, a hamlet, in the parish of St. Martin, Stamford-Baron, union of … ( St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Stratford, Henley division of the hundred of Barlichway, S. division of … of Warwick; containing, with the chapelries of Henley-in-Arden and Ullenhall, 2303 inhabitants, of whom 619 are in …
A History of the County of Sussex
… than from the several dates when they were incorporated in Worthing. Some aspects of the history of Goring after 1929 … lived at Worthing from 1849 onwards, 29 the poet W. E. Henley lived there between 1899 and 1901, and the painter … Yr. Bk. (1976-7). D.N.B. S. J. Looker, Shelley, Trelawny, Henley (1950), 27, 31. Worthing Surv. 64. H. M. Hyde, Oscar …
A History of the County of Sussex
… from 1789, 11 and their number increased from c. 30 in 1804 to c. 60 by 1813. 12 Three hotels had been built by … the Royal Sea House and afterwards the Royal, Hotel, were in South Street. 13 Both were rebuilt in the 1820s. 14 The … (1972-3). Inscr. in bldg. S. J. Looker, Shelley, Trelawny, Henley (1950), 26. Odell, Old Theatre, 104. Unless otherwise …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Peter) WROCKWARDINE ( St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Wellington, Wellington division of the … comprises 4627 a. 11 p. of arable and pasture land in nearly equal portions; the soil is fertile, producing good … registration-districts of Wycombe, Amersham, Cookham, and Henley. The town-hall, erected in 1757, at the expense of the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… CHURCH. Masonry of the 12th century or earlier re-used in the church porch may be from the chapel in existence at Yelford by 1221. 99 In the later 13th century … Gregory Gunnis (resigned 1579) was later arrested at Henley and imprisoned as a suspected Roman Catholic priest. …