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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 34 and it was probably with a view to improving the silted river that Bishop Morton (1479-86) caused his Learn to be cut …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… all the Wisbech schools are on the right bank of the river. This was used as an argument against the Queen's Road …
A History of the County of Sussex
… which is dissected by streams flowing north-east to the river Adur. 99 Part of the south-east boundary is formed by …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… appears well wooded, and is bounded southwardly by the river Idle, which divides it from Mattersey. The turnpike …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… seven miles south-east of Leicester in the valley of the River Sence. Since 1936 it has included most of the former … the most part on the southern side of the Sence, and the river and its tributaries form the parish boundary on the … five miles south-east of Leicester in the valley of the River Sence. It is a chapelry of Wistow and was formerly a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… chalk and flint. The grounds are intersected by the rapid river Allen, which turns a paper-mill giving employment to … on the road from Norwich to Fakenham, and near the river Wensum, on which is an extensive flour-mill. The living … confluence of a small stream called the Braine, with the river Blackwater, on the main road from London to Colchester. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… a circular panel (Plate 89) with the bust of a sea or river god surrounded by concentric decorative borders. To the … yds. N.W. of the R. Allen, on a slight hillock of clay on river gravel. Flint and mortar footings 4 ft. wide formed a …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… and scarp dropping sharply to the marshy ground near the river Brain. The inner work, which stands at a higher level …
Records relating to the Barony of Kendale
… ground called Holme Island or Holme-uponthe-Sands in the river near Meathop, in the county of Westmorland, containing … 141. See Holme, par. Burton in Kendale. Helton Tarn on the river Winster. Lord of Witherslack. The plea was probably …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 818 inhabitants. This parish, which is situated on the river Colne, comprises about 7000 acres: the soil is … the road from Bromyard to Hereford, and by a branch of the river Froome: the Gloucester and Hereford canal was opened to … are very extensive, embracing the town of Preston, the river Ribble, and the district of the Fylde. Excellent stone …