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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… from the north bank of the Wear, which is crossed by a bridge. The scenery around is of great beauty, and on the … of the Lyn burn, which joins the Wear a little below the bridge. This castle, built about 1410, was the baronial … is intersected by the river Font, over which a substantial bridge of stone was erected in 1837. Upon the village cross …
A History of the County of Essex
… on the river Colne leading to Old Heath called Butchers bridge, where the river was only 6 yd. wide at low water; … tide between The Quay and Fingringhoe at Wivenhoe ferry bridge, described as 11 yd. wide in 1734, although in the … car ownership. 98 By 1718 there was a ferry and moveable bridge or ford, accessible only at low tide, over the Colne …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of the parish, and includes the small village of Wolseley-Bridge, where are good inns and extensive corn-warehouses … Bart., is situated nearly half a mile west of the bridge, in a spacious park consisting of a romantic … the numerous workmen employed; and on the south side of a bridge over the railway is a station for passengers. The …
A History of the County of Oxford
… fair, which gave its name to Fair close between Godstow bridge and Toll Bridge, was recorded in 1279; it was presumably still being …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Oxford City boundary (most of the parish west of Godstow bridge) to Binsey civil parish, and the Local Government … continuing to Godstow and Wytham. The section from Godstow bridge to Wytham was a private road, used in the 18th century … branched north from the Godstow road just west of Toll Bridge along a lane marked on a map of c. 1730 as the way to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… church (or abbey) gate, probably the site across Godstow bridge on which the abbey's grange was later built. 30 At the … may have lain on swampy ground north-west of the lock-cut bridge, 52 was surrounded by a precinct wall which extended, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… WOMENSWOULD ( St. Margaret), a parish, in the union of Bridge, hundred of Wingham, lathe of St. Augustine, E. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Market Street, on the Watling Street, and west of Harts Bridge Road, was returned to Wombridge. 83 In 1854 patronage …