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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… The Little Marsh was situated in the area now known as the Island, while Great Marsh extended between the Nadder and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… surrounded by a Moat of class A1 (a) 10, forming an island 100 ft. square with a wet ditch 15 ft. to 30 ft. wide …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… H.M.C. Egmont, II, 206); Defoe ( A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain, ed. Cole and Browning (1962), I, 87) …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… coasts of Armorica, in Gaul, and came to this part of the island, finding well-watered valleys, fertile plains, and … Romans, who, achieving the conquest of this portion of the island, under Vespasian, made it one of their principal … Soon after the establishment of Christianity in the island, a monastery was founded here, of which Constans, son …
A History of the County of Stafford
… fulling mill was built in the 14th century on an adjoining island, and in the late 18th century it became a cotton mill. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… of a small moated enclosure ('a' on plan) consisting of an island about 40 m. across surrounded by a shallow ditch now …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… point occupied by the Pits. The old name of this road was Crooked Drove (Wisb. MSS., deeds of 1767 and 1787). Gardner, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… type from the others in Wisbech hundred. Its nucleus is an island of gravel, not very perceptible except from the west, …
Records relating to the Barony of Kendale
… customary tenants in 1762 by Hugh, lord Clifford. Holme Island was alienated at a later date as a freehold. The … and Meathop in the manor of Cappleside, except "all that island called Holme Island or Holme-upon-the-Sands and all manorial, seignorial, …