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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… it is said to have been visited by Cromwell in the summer of 1651, and to have been the hiding-place of Lord …
A History of the County of Essex
… in the autumn and those not involved in yachting in the summer caught shrimps. 94 In 1882 shipbuilders, shipowners, … Wivenhoe men involved in pro- fessional yachting in the summer turned to salvaging, as well as fishing, in the … to become Rennie Forrestt Shipbuilding, Engineering and Dry Dock Co. Ltd. New machinery and plant was introduced and …
A History of the County of Essex
… between Colchester and Walton with Sunday services only in summer. Trains were still running in 1995. The Wivenhoe and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… blades. 24 The out-break of 'morbus campestris' in the summer of 1643 spread from Oxford to Wolvercote, where 21 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 677 acres of arable and pasture land; the soil is dry and sandy, and the surface hilly. The Shrewsbury, …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 56 As late as 1870 colliers' daughters who had spent the summer working in market gardens around London would …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… focus hereby was the dressing of this imported cloth by dry CALENDARing supposedly to improve its appearance and … divers Strangers beyond the Seas have taken upon them to dry-calendar Worsteds with GUMs, OILs, and Presses so that a …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… north which are now largely channelled into ditches and dry in their uppermost reaches, Derisley valley in the northeast being entirely dry. 26 The undulating Chalk carries mostly light soils full …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… obliterated by the neglect of the war years, but a wooden summer-house and a small arched bridge are still in …