The Victoria History of Gloucestershire Yate

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  • Engels
  • Paperback
  • 9781909646100
  • 31 juli 2015
  • 130 pagina's
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Yate is a town in South Gloucestershire, north-east of Bristol. Its ancient parish extended across a largely flat vale, which until the 13th century lay within Horwood forest, and was then cleared, inclosed and farmed as rich pasture by the tenants of the influential owners of its three manors. A limestone ridge fringing the vale provided good building stone, and across the parish seams of coal and a rare mineral - celestine - have been exploited until recent times. Yate lay on an important early route between Bristol and Oxford, and its mineral wealth attracted early railway links, so that it was well placed for industrial development. Bristol-based industries moved there during the decades after 1900, including wartime aviation production, so that Yate's population and housing began to increase. During the 1950s a 'new town' plan was devised which carefully controlled Yate's expansion, and included pioneering housing estate design, diverse industrial development and a large and progressive shopping mall. Yate's boundaries were redrawn in 1988, and the population of this vibrant, modern town now exceeds 20,000. This is the first publication of the reconstituted Victoria County History in Gloucestershire, and the first book to trace the long and fascinating history of the landscape, buildings, industries and people that have contributed to the making of modern Yate. Rose Wallis, its author, is a contributing editor to the Victoria County History in Gloucestershire, and lectures in history at the University of the West of England.

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Rose Wallis
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