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A History of the County of Leicestershire
… is 3,034 a. in area, includes the township of Nevill Holt, and this is described in a separate section below. 1 The … ft. high, is an outlier of the Northampton ironstone beds and has provided the bulk of the building stone for houses in … of 1844. 6 When the R.D.C. required this ground for a sewerage scheme, they were authorized in 1936 to compensate …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… p. 21. Tenant Flocks, p. 26. The Tenantry, p. 29. The 14th and 15th centuries, p. 36. The pattern of human settlement in … in its main outlines by 1086. Saxon enterprise in clearing and cultivating had driven deep into the forest cover of the … scheme of land reclamation and improvement involving much drainage and inclosure. He frequently purchased land from his …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… Medieval Beverley Topography and Growth Topography and Growth The early topographical development of Beverley … in part perhaps because of the constraints imposed by poor drainage in the river valley. The main body of building …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… Medieval Beverley Trade and Industry Trade and Industry Until the rise of Hull at the end of the 13th … which lay east of the town, near Figham. 36 Changes in the drainage of the area could well have affected the …
History Theses 1970-2014: Historical research for higher degrees in the universities of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland
… Medieval British Isles 1970 Bernicia and the sea: coastal communities and landscape in north-east England and south-east Scotland, … C.B.; Jones, G.D.B. A technological history of the drainage of the Derbyshire lead mines. Rieuwerts, J.H. Ph.D., …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… Hull, p. 13. The King's Town of Hull, p. 15. The Scottish and French Wars, p. 21. The Wars of the Roses, p. 23. The … fresh water presented perhaps an even greater problem than sewerage. In the absence of fresh water beneath the town, the … and men holding adjoining land were prevented from making drainage ditches which might admit salt water to the town …
A History of the County of Oxford
… History, p. 35. Town Government, p. 48 (The Community and the Guild, p. 48; The Development of Liberties, p. 50; The Fee Farm, p. 52; Town and University, p. 53; Town Officers, p. 58; Parliamentary … course was marked only by boundary stones. 73 A surviving drainage ditch in the meadow preserves part of its line. 74 …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Melrose - Monteith, Port of Melrose MELROSE, a market-town and parish, and anciently a burgh of barony, in the district … the ditches and to keep them in a fit state to receive the drainage. The farm houses and offices are generally … and in a high state of cultivation; and the extensive drainage carried on, and the plantations formed within the …
A History of the County of Essex
… OF LOCAL ADMINISTRATION To ensure that the new streets and the additional population in the suburbs were supplied … was made to revive the old proposal of a unified main drainage scheme for the Lea valley, and the Ministry of … prospect of having so drastically to alter their main drainage and sewage disposal systems that they were reluctant …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… THE village of Aldbrough lies 18 km. north-east of Hull and 2 km. from the sea, which forms the eastern parish … recorded at Aldbrough in 1616 suggest the former poor drainage of parts of the parish. 17 Land in the parish … into the fleet in 1618, 18 and under the Keyingham Level Drainage Acts of 1772 and later 19 Lambwath stream, the …