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A History of the County of Sussex
… £27 was added by the parish officers of both places. 59 In 1704 lands were bought at Mock bridge in Henfield. 60 The clear annual income to each parish in the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Village Map Woodnewton is a parish of 565 hectares in the Forest of Rockingham. The village lies on the N. side … until 1735 when the Earl of Westmorland replaced it by a bridge, designed by George Portwood of Stamford, on the site … are incised with dates including 1732, 1733, 1737. The bridge to S., with a single unchamfered arch, is later than …
A History of the County of Oxford
… doorway provides the earliest evidence of building in the town. The town in the later Middle Ages probably … at its junction with Brown's Lane by a 'great wooden bridge', maintained by the corporation. 59 The bridge may have been the 'new bridge leading to the king's …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Introduction Introduction In 1279 local jurors asserted that New Woodstock was founded … it in 1827 the corporation refused to contribute. 41 The bridge at the Old Woodstock end of the causeway was accepted as a country bridge and in 1839, after a dispute with the corporation, the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… BOROUGH TO 1886.When New Woodstock was incorporated in 1453 75 the borough and its customs were ancient. The … in 1634 when the chamberlains were ordered to repair the bridge in Hollow Way and in 1828 when the corporation was … in the 17th century, notably on the Hollow Way, the wooden bridge over it, and the causeway and footpath leading to Old …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… ft. and 50 ft. above O.D. The S. part slopes from Chalk in the S.W., through areas on Reading Beds and London Clay, … on dwarf walls which thus cleared the intrados of the bridge behind; of these only part of the S. respond of the S. … shafts with moulded bases and scalloped capitals. The bridge in the W. bay, carrying the passage over from the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… midway between Lydney and Chepstow. Roughly rectangular in shape, it rises from the River Severn to the high ground … thence, with the exception of the meadow north of Mickla Bridge and a small piece of land at Cone Pill the boundary … and to Wyvern Pond from c. 1900. 60 Although there was a bridge on the main road by 1769 a ford then remained on the …
A History of the County of Somerset
… of Bridgwater. The ancient parish was almost rectangular in shape measuring 3 km. from north to south and 2.5 km. from … 13 The road crossed the Withy Pill rhyne by Quaking bridge. 14 Other routes run east - west between Cossington … century into four fields: East, South, West, and Crany or Crandon. They were very small, possibly including the area …
A History of the County of Sussex
… The parish, with an area of 1,950 acres and a population in 1931 of 288, is some 4 miles from north to south, with an … later masonry with brick dressings and modern windows. The bridge over the Rother, south of the church, is of 15th- or … service of coming before the king with the infantry to the bridge of Shetebrugge and from there carrying a standard to …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… Ancient and historical monuments in east London Woolwich 12. WOOLWICH. (O.S. 6-in. London, … Eltham Palace, hall, houses in various tenures, walls, bridge and moat, 550 yards S.S.W. of Eltham parish church. … being in progress and nearing completion in 1479; the N. Bridge over the moat is of the same period. Much building was …