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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… SW, ST 71 SE) The parish has an area of about 3,400 acres and is divided into two parts, distinct from one another both geologically and historically. The W. part is roughly square and lies … Gaylard House on the W. The interior is disturbed by later drainage channels but there are remains of closes bounded by …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… village called Newerne, the village of Aylburton, and scattered farmsteads in the tithings of Purton, Nass, and … to the river makes a sharp south- westerly turn along a drainage dyke to the inlet called Cone Pill, including the … its power station at Norchard colliery in the parish. 39 A sewerage system was built by the rural district council c. …
A History of the County of Somerset
… ECONOMIC HISTORY. Hedges, ditches, old watercourses, and at least one bridge mentioned in the perambulation … 937 indicate the progress of agriculture on the Lyng ridge and the beginnings of encroachment on the moors. 91 … described as old auster tenements, probably charged with drainage works in North moor, 10 but only 35 a. of 138 a. in …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the county's main artery of trade, 50 on which barges and the larger trows were in use by the early 15th century. … By the earlier 17th century there was a community of barge and trow men settled in the Severn Gorge 52 whence, from … rails were laid to bring out the coal. Employed for mine drainage and ventilation, the tunnel was used in connexion …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… enjoyed pannage with other common rights, defined in 1190 and surrendered in 1234, in the Wrekin woods. 6 The manor lay … 85 with insufficient capital 86 to deal with the serious drainage problems. 87 After 1645 the county committee's … engine, the earliest known in Shropshire, 5 to reduce drainage costs. The break-up of the manorial estate from 1705 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… leet of Bourton hundred 67 which, in the 1660s, 1670s, and earlier 1680s, regularly fined Madeley offenders against … the district committee, disagreeing, refused to prepare a sewerage scheme, alleging that its cost would complete the … (in Broseley) became operational in 1970 but the drainage of Ironbridge and Coalbrookdale was completed by …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… remaining boundaries enclose with it a rough semicircle and follow old fields except in part on the W. where a decayed road running N. from Hardwick and Toft divides Madingley from Dry Drayton. Madingley The ground slopes N.E. with drainage to the Beck Brook and varies from over 200 ft. to …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… known as 'the Fenland' is drained by the rivers Ouse, Nene and Welland and extends from a centre in Cambridgeshire into … right. After 1600, when an Act was passed for the general drainage of the Fens, Sir John Popham, the Chief Justice, and … alterations from the Cotton map were the addition of the drainage works made in Deeping Fen by the Earl of Exeter and …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… relationship of Market Harborough to Great Bowden in civil and ecclesiastical matters has been discussed elsewhere. 2 … which was transferred from Northamptonshire in 1888 and included in the Market Harborough Urban District in 1895, … sub 1 Feb. 1849. Rep. to General Board of Health on Sewerage, &c. of Harborough, &c. (1849) ( penes Mkt. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… of some 3,800 acres, bounded on the W. by the R. Stour and on the E. by the Key Brook, a tributary of the Stour; … Brook, drains the centre of the area. Between the Stour and Chivrick's Brook a long ridge of Corallian Sand and … by scarps 1 ft. to 2 ft. high and cut into by modern drainage ditches; there are traces of larger closes around …