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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of quadrangular form, about a mile long, and half a mile broad, and consists of four good streets parallel with each … of water in the kingdom, six miles in length, and three broad, and abounding with fish. The barracks of Norman-Cross, …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… (1733)], it required more than one weaver to operate a broad loom, so that TEXTILES defined as yard-wide or yard-broad were relatively unusual. Other inventions, such as the … a gown was being described. An earlier equivalent is 'yard broad', which is first noted by the OED in the seventeenth …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… on the N.W., S.W. and part of the N.E. and S.E. sides by a broad ditch which was at least 10 m. wide. The E. corner had … double reversed-S curve to the ridges (e.g. at SP 767451). Broad access-ways and unploughed 'greens' are also visible …
A History of the County of Oxford
… road. A dispute between the narrowgauge O.W.W.R. and the broad-gauge G.W.R. gave Yarnton prominence in 1854 when a …