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A History of the County of Essex
… The soil is mainly London clay, with patches of gravel on the higher parts, and originally supported forest over … Thomas de Muscegros almost certainly held land on the border next to Chigwell, where a branch of his family … and Coke Co., which was in turn transferred to the North Thames gas board in 1949. 119 In 1924 the County of London …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 36 s. 10 The site of New Woodstock, a well drained plateau on the edge of the Glyme valley opposite the royal palace, … borough comprised 61 � a. 14 Its boundary with the park on the west and south was probably established at its … when he heard that Sir William Waller had crossed the Thames at Newbridge; fearing encirclement 82 he made his …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the profits were taken to include the quitrents set on burgages at the town's foundation and still listed in … of 466 13 s. 4 d. for the fee farm, a calculation based on an annual payment of 5 marks which presumably included 1 … supply from the Swinford pumping station on the river Thames at Eynsham. 23 By the 17th century two surveyors of …
A Dictionary of London
… reference. Woolpack Alley See Cutler Street. Woolpack Inn On the east side of West Smithfield, towards the north. In … Stow's time (S. 243). See Worcester Place. Worcester House On the west side of Walbrook at No.6 (P.O. Directory). In … Buildings" (O.S. 1880). Worcester Place South out of Upper Thames Street at No.68 to Worcester wharf. In Vintry Ward …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… containing 942 inhabitants. This place is situated on the road from Ipswich to Bury St. Edmund's, and was … of the largest horse-fairs in England is held at Woolpit on September 16th, and a large fair for bullocks on the 18th … among other causes, to its situation on the river Thames, which is here nearly three-quarters of a mile broad, …
The Environs of London
… and how occupid. Soil. Chalk-pit. Land-tax. Woolwich lies on the banks of the Thames, within the hundred of Blackheath, and at the distance of nine miles from London. The parish is bounded on the north by the river Thames, except in that part where …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… containing 157 inhabitants. The parish is situated on the road from London to Dovor, and comprises by … ( St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Stratford, Henley division of the hundred of Barlichway, S. division of … the county of Warwick; containing, with the chapelries of Henley-in-Arden and Ullenhall, 2303 inhabitants, of whom 619 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… covered some 70,000 acres of central Oxfordshire, bounded on the east by the river Cherwell, on the north by its tributary the Swere, and on much of the south by the rivers Thames and Windrush. Part of the western boundary passed …
A History of the County of Oxford
… were boroughs and market towns. The area, lying partly on the limestone uplands of central Oxfordshire, partly on the flat river gravels of the Thames valley, was not a distinct region; some villages …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… situation near a fordable part of the river Severn, and on the confines of a thick forest, it was selected as a place of strength and security. On the expulsion of that people by the Romans, it was … one of those fortresses which the praetor Ostorius erected on the banks of the Severn, to secure his conquests. Great …