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Benson (Including Fifield, Preston, Crownmarsh, Roke)
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… the 1760s a ferry ran from just south of Preston Crowmarsh mill, 8 supplemented in the late 19th and early 20th … bank, and by 1876 a telegraph office. 7 Sited then near Mill Lane, it moved before 1899 to a site further along High … traffic. 16 Benson lock, associated with the nearby mill at Preston Crowmarsh, existed presumably from the Middle …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… weir, near Bower Yard, was in Madeley manor. 73 A water mill in the late 16th and early 17th century presumably stood … were two ponds in 1618. 74 In the late 18th century a corn mill with an overshot wheel 60 ft. in diameter was built c. … was also employed. Used only occasionally by 1900, the mill was dismantled in 1935 and ruinous in the earlier 1980s. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… which, at a short distance from its source, turns a mill. The parish comprises by measurement 5902 acres: the …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… with St. Paul's sword. The manor of Bentley contained a mill worth 10 s. in 1086. 18 The manor of PURY alias …
Old and New London
… he writes, "he became bald, and continued to wear powder to the last of his stay in England, rather piquing …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and east are five bastions, to two of which there are powder magazines: the harbour is defended by a four and a six …
A History of the County of Hertford
… here in the fourteenth century, Green Lane (Greneweylane), Mill Lane, and Elvenweye, afterwards Grubs Lane and now … in Domesday, and in 1357 we have reference to the Castle mill, 'Sisethemulle' and 'Bankmulle,' 90 but in 1559 and 1627 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… House, on S. side of Jacob Street, nearly 70 yards E. of Mill Street, has a weather-boarded front and retains some …