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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… upon Chalk and rises to an altitude of 500 ft. above sea-level. The land undulates in a branching pattern of narrow, … plain keystones and impost-blocks. To the W., at a higher level and presumably corresponding with a former W. gallery, … plinth and a three-course brick plat-band at first-floor level. The original windows are casements with wooden …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Plantation, up to 22 ft. wide and 3 ft. high above ground level, is separated from the lip of the ditch by a berm 9 ft. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… moulded caps, the bases of which are beneath the floor-level. The origin and purpose of these responds is obscure. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… along Leverington Common towards Parson Drove. The Bedford Level Act of 1663 4 authorized the inclosure, division, and …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… boundary, which is also the county boundary. 2 The North Level Main Drain, the principal artificial watercourse of the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… of the old Nene into the Ouse at Salter's Lode; the Old Bedford River (part of the south-east boundary of Upwell), the main drainage channel, with the New Bedford River, of the southern fens; and the Middle Level Main Drain, which takes the outflow from the Chatteris …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… except from the west, but rising to 25 ft. above sea-level, or some 15 to 20 ft. above the surrounding fen. … resident landlord (the successive earls and dukes of Bedford), and the conspicuously neat aspect of the planned … contrasts abruptly with that of its neighbours. The Bedford family has earned a reputation for enlightened estate …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… watercourse in the parish, after the Nene, is the North Level Main Drain (1831-4), the successor to the Shire Drain, … extreme north-east corner, near the outfall of the North Level Main Drain into the Nene. The name 'Tydd' defies … II. They were 'improved, set out and divided' under the Bedford Level Act of 1663. 13 The land was allotted to the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… receiving relief. A further 8 acres were awarded under the Bedford Level Act of 1677, and the total yearly rents derived from … 132-3. The only example of railway crossing railway on the level in the Eastern Counties, where it might be expected to …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Sutton Marsh (1719) and in Thorney Fen and the Bedford level generally (1749 and 1775-6). 67 Their efforts in 1720 …