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Old and New London
… Agar Town and the Midland Railway CHAPTER XXVIII. AGAR TOWN, AND THE MIDLAND RAILWAY. Origin of the Midland RailwayAgar … Operations for the Construction of the Midland Railway and TerminusRe-interment of a Roman Catholic DignitaryThe …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… climate is equable, the July isotherm being 64 degrees, and that of January 40 degrees, while the mean of the whole … by water,' and including them in the land acreage, while house agents, despite their natural interest in magnifying … first specific differentiation on Mr. Cook's farm, Tower House, Orpington. The Aylesbury duck does as well in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… varying soils. As the county is almost fifty miles long, and contains close on 480,000 acres of land, it is not … the land of excellent and considerable quantities of farm-yard manure and reducing the stock-keeping capabilities of … hands are hired for the year and boarded in the hirer's house, but there is no such custom in Oxfordshire, where the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… was the Cheese Country devoted to cheese dairy farming and grazing. To the extreme south-west lay a small part of the Butter Country, and in the extreme south-east there were fragments of a … open corn fields. The beasts and horses were either in the yard or the home closes, or tethered or attended by a …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… directed, in the first place, to supply their own wants, and next, to enable themselves to purchase those necessaries … for instance around Warminster. 85 Apart from milk for the house, what dairying there was tended to be sub-let to … additions to the potash. Bones (16 bushels to the acre) or yard manure were sometimes added, although the difficulty of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Agriculture since 1870 AGRICULTURE SINCE 1870 Between 1870 and the present day English agriculture, and Wiltshire … on what had become very limited resources, so that the correction of past mistakes took place at the expense of … the Earl of Pembroke had the large income of his Dublin house property to draw on for personal and family expenses. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Aighton - Akenham Aighton, with Bailey and Chaigley AIGHTON, with Bailey and Chaigley, a township, … a large and handsome new building was added to the house. The whole now comprises, a hall of study, seven … 1816, and the chancel soon afterwards. Near the parsonage-house is a chalybeate spring. John Leake, M.D., founder of …
Physicians and Irregular Medical Practitioners in London 1550-1640
… evidence. Number of crimes 1 9 April 1619 Entry A appeared and said he thought he could practise because he was born in … one Russell with emetic lozenges of Stibium. A denied it and said he did not remember the charge reported by Dr … administering an emetic to Darling & Hodgson of the Custom House. Initiator of the complaint college member Second …
A History of the County of Somerset
… irregular in shape, measured 3.5 km. from east to west and 1 km. from nsorth to south, the smaller was roughly oval, … north-east. It comprises the church, the former rectory house, and a few cottages. Holcombe was the name of an estate … origins, survived. 14 Durborough Farm is a Tshaped house in which the short central arm appears to survive from …
A History of the County of Somerset
… £15 to the poor. The bequest was used to buy the church house, the rent from which was distributed to the poor on the … invested in consols. Charity distributions ceased c. 1930 and the income has been allowed to accumulate. 1 S.R.O., …