1 The site of a sheepwash identified from the digital mapping and from the Ordnance Survey map of 1886.
The site of a sheepwash identified from an Ordnance Survey map. It was located 500m southwest of the church at Withybrook.
1 Congregational Church marked.
2 The chapel has been demolished and the site is now overgrown and covered by rubble.
The site of a chapel that was in use during the Imperial period. The chapel is marked on a tithe award map of 1843. It was situated 300m north west of the church at Withybrook.
1 ‘Smithy’ marked.
2 A modern house now stands on the site.
Site of a forge where wrought iron was made during the Imperial period. It is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1886. The forge was situated 500m north west of the church at Withybrook.
1 ‘Brick Yard’ marked.
2 ‘Brick Kiln Close’ marked.
3 The field is now arable and contained no surface indications of the site.
The site of a brickworks dating to at least the Imperial period is suggested by documentary evidence. The site is located 600m east of Shilton Lodge Farm.
1 The only reference to this site is on the 1886 OS map, where a pit is indicated at this location and called “Old Sand Pit”.
2 The site still exists ...
The site of a sand pit dating back to at least the Imperial period. It is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1887. The site is located 500m east of Withybrook Grange.
1 ‘Brick Kiln Close’ marked.
2 The land is now arable and there is no surface indication of the site.
The site of a brickworks where bricks were made in the Imperial period. The site is marked on a map of 1844. The site is located 200m south of Withybrook Spinney.
1 An embankment on the Oxford Canal, built during the straightening of the 1830s, has here made redundant a lengthy section of canal, stretching into SP4182 and SP4283. The ...
The site of a disused canal, a waterway used for transporting goods. It dated from the Imperial period, and is mostly visible as an earthwork. It was part of the Oxford Canal, and situated south of Nettle Hill, with the intersection of the M6.
My ancestor, Spencer Mason from Warwickshire, went to London and worked as a baker in Islington. One of his sons, Daniel Spencer Mason, was described as a ‘gentleman’ in his ...
Migration
I should have known things would not be any different, even back in the 1700s, given that my grandparents up and relocated to Canada from Leicestershire, England in 1913. People ...
