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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Stone is quarried for building, and for burning into lime. The living is a rectory and donative, in the gift of … stone-quarry, for building purposes, and for burning into lime. From 15 to 20 persons are engaged in a twine …
A History of the County of Somerset
… the ditch by the later Middle Ages, northwards along Lime Street and westwards along High Street, where building … Street c. 1861). 7 Routes from the north converged on Lime Street, so named in 1431, 8 and from the west on High … them leaving the site open. Courts were built off Well and Lime streets in the later 19th century; 20 in the later 20th …
A History of the County of Somerset
… and the women's almshouse, for six women, was built in Lime Street. 32 An almshouse for three men was built in 1821 …
A History of the County of Somerset
… worth 2 s. 8 d. 3 In 1607 it comprised a barn and 1½ a. in Lime Street, 4 later described as a half and a quarter … vicarage house were added in the 1860s 7 but part of the Lime Street property was sold in 1942. 8 The rest remained …
A History of the County of Somerset
… butter was sent to London. The fields were dressed with lime, dissolved bone, nitrate of soda, and superphosphate. 53 … and there was a variety of small shops in High Street and Lime Street in Stogursey village in 1985. During the 1930s …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… then as colliers or 'limers', or kept horses to carry lime and coal; their condition was better than that of the … may have been worked by farmers to supply themselves. 96 A lime maker who lived at Batch Gutter in 1841 was described in … in the 1840s. 98 They were among the last to burn lime for a living. Several stone masons lived in the parish …
A History of the County of Stafford
… shops are situated. The terraced houses in Birks Street, Lime Street, and Fielding Street, between the northern part … of the neighbourhood of the said canal by a supply of lime at less expense'. It appears, however, never to have …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… good quality is quarried for building and for burning into lime. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… of the principal proprietor, a mansion of stone and lime, situated near the site of the present village, and … fine old sycamoretrees, and near Blairquhan are some lime-trees of great beauty, forming a noble avenue to the … into profitable cultivation; and the facility of obtaining lime, marl, shell-sand, and sea-weed, for manure, affords …