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A History of the County of Gloucester
… the Hill (or Herd), a strip of waste extending along the Avon north-east of the town, were assigned as commons for the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… defined hill, bounded on the east side by the river Avon and on the south by a tributary brook. On the south-east …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… marked for some of its length by a branch of the Bristol Avon which rises in the parish. The other boundaries mostly … that is broken only by the valleys of the Bristol Avon and a small tributary brook. The land is formed almost …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… to the uplands of Bourton-on-the-Hill (draining into both Avon and Thames) and the gentler reverse slopes on which … the growing influence of Cheltenham and Stratford-upon-Avon at its two ends it remained in 1962 primarily …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… case, the centre of the industry had shifted towards the Avon valley. In 1705 Defoe was writing of 'that great vale of … MSS. Com. Var. Coll. i. 123. W. H. Jones, Bradford-on-Avon, ed. J. Beddoes, 53. S. W. Bates-Harbin, 'Members of … the County of Wilts. (1794), 23. W. H. Jones, Bradford-on-Avon, ed. Beddoes, 54; see also V.C.H. Wilts. vii. 43. In …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… inhabitants are well supplied with water. The Kennet and Avon canal passes a little to the south. A paper-mill at …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… besides which he built a fine college at Stratford-upon-Avon, the place of his birth, which he amply endowed; and he …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… seems at first to have been preferred. 66 The Kennet & Avon Canal, work on which began in 1796, 67 was diverted to … There was also a line of small houses, called in 1871 Avon Row 265 and since 1885 Avon Terrace, 266 between Bath Road and Rotherstone House. …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… was further developed by the opening of the Kennet and Avon Canal. This canal was authorized in 1794 and finished in … into wards; the North Ward, to the north of the Kennet and Avon Canal and the South Ward to the south; each ward was to …
A History of the County of Northampton
… friar, Geoffrey Grandfelt (d. 1340); the Carmelites, John Avon, a distinguished mathematician, who died in 1349; …