A history of the county of Wiltshire

著者

• Crowley, D. A.
• University of London. Institute of Historical Research
• Bainbridge, Virginia R. (Virginia Rosalyn)

書誌事項

A history of the county of Wiltshire

edited by D.A. Crowley

（The Victoria history of the counties of England）

Published for The Institute of Historical Research by Boydell & Brewer, 2002-

• v. 17
• v. 18

注記

Vol. 17. Calne hundred -- v. 18. Cricklade and environs

Vol. 18. edited by Virginia Bainbridge

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

v. 17 ISBN 9781904356011

内容説明

The history of Calne, a market and industrial town in north Wiltshire, and the places around it. Calne, a small town in north Wiltshire, stood on a large royal estate, and the witan met there - St Dunstan survived the partial collapse of a building at one meeting. It sent members to parliament from the thirteenth century, andit became a pocket borough in the eighteenth. The town stands on what until 1971 was the main London to Bristol road; markets and fairs were held, and inns flourished. It was also industrial: water-powered mills were used for fulling, and from the sixteenth century to the 1840s it was a centre for cloth making. The topography of the town, its growth, government and cultural life are fully explored, and churches, chapels and schools discussed. In Calne's hinterland most settlement was in small villages with open fields and commonable pastures. Bowood park was inclosed from the forest c.1618 and Bowood House was built in the park c.1727. The house, the changes to it by Robert Adam and others, and the redesigning of its park by 'Capability' Brown are fully described. In the nineteenth century many estate cottages were built. For the places around Calne the history of the settlement and churches in each village, the manorial descents, and the evolution of farming and farms are all traced, and there are architectural descriptions of the churches.D.A.CROWLEY is County Editor, Victorial History of Wiltshire.

巻冊次

v. 18 ISBN 9781904356189

内容説明

Authoritative account of Cricklade and neighbouring towns, in an area immediately west of Swindon. Cricklade, the Anglo-Saxon borough fortified by Alfred against the Danes, is the market town at the heart of this volume. As a notorious rotten borough, its corruption influenced the passing of the 1832 Parliamentary Reform Act. The town and the surrounding parishes described here are bordered by Gloucestershire to the north and Swindon to the East. They extend along the upper Thames valley and over the Wiltshire claylands to the limestone ridge in the south. The royal forest of Braydon covered much of the area in the middle ages and provided extensive grazing for livestock. Although disafforestation took place under Charles I, agricultural exploitation was limited by poor soils and parts were later returned to woodland or nature reserve. The settlements of traditional limestone buildings were remote until canal and rail transport increased trade in dairy products and the expansion of employment opportunities in Swindon resulted in their residential development, and an annexation of a small part of the area by the growing town.

目次

Introduction: Cricklade and Environs - John H. Chandler Introduction: The Hundredal Structure - Cricklade Borough - Douglas Crowley Outer Cricklade - Douglas Crowley Ashton Keynes - Douglas Crowley and Carrie Smith Eisey - Douglas Crowley and Carrie Smith Latton - Douglas Crowley and Carrie Smith Leigh - James Lee and Carrie Smith Lydiard Millicent - Douglas Crowley and Carrie Smith Marston Meysey - Minety - James Lee Purton - Braydon -

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA61569561
• ISBN:
  • 190435601X
  • 9781904356189
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Woodbridge
• ページ数/冊数: v.
• 大きさ: 31 cm
• 分類:
  • DC21 : 942.31
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Antiquities -- England -- Wiltshire
  • LCSH : Wiltshire (England) -- History
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA01325343