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Survey of London
… Square Area The area described in this chapter, centred on Wilmington Square, lies between Amwell Street and … for the administration of the recently instituted national insurance scheme, as the offices of the Insurance Committee for the County of London. William Street …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… attempts at definition by charter or by-law. As time went on observations made on the charters revealed increasingly how much of the earlier … century, by suggestions for a new charter. Many of the provisions made towards this end were mutually contradictory; …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… school; no boy might leave before he was fourteen, or stay on after he was fifteen. The curriculum was extended to … financial support was also to be given to a Sunday school on the same principles. The residue of the income was to … in 1919 there were 102 boys, 110 girls, and 118 infants on the register. 10 In 1935 the school was reorganized into …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… The Urban District of Wimborne Minster covers 653 acres on the N. bank of the R. Stour and on both banks of the R. Allen which joins the Stour in the S. … vicinity of the Minster. The houses were probably centred on a rectangular market place on the N.W. of the Minster, now …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… extent, lies about 8 m. S.W. of Cambridge. It is bounded on the N. by the ancient track called Mare Way, on the W. by Ermine Street, with some adjustments in either case, and on the S. by the river Rhee. The boundary on the E. with …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Wincanton in 1840 Wincanton in 1885 The river Cale rises on the western scarp of the Selwood ridge just above the … town, presumably originating around the parish church on roughly level ground beside the Cale, first evidently … (1), p. 415. S.R.O., DD/S/W 1 32. Ibid. Q/SR 203/32. Som. Insurance Policy Holders 1714-31 (TS. in S.R.O.). S.R.O., …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wyndcaleton, and derived that name from its situation on the windings of the river Cale, by which it is bounded on the west. It was the scene of many sanguinary conflicts … people of the neighbouring country used to deposit their provisions for the supply of the city in time of plague, the …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… gabled above. This disposition can still be clearly seen on the south wall where the angle shafts of the dormers and … them. The wall was surmounted by a plain parapet supported on a corbel table. In 1874 the whole building was thoroughly … from the aisles. The responds of the arcades are supported on large corbels carved as semi-figures of men and women in …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Salisbury; in 1700, Frederick Tilney, 100 cash to be lent on loan; in 1701, William Over, rent-charge of 22 issuing out … of eleven parishes amounting to 3,916; the reserved rents on freehold properties containing 121 acres or thereabouts, … 19 s. 6 d. consols on 'building account,' which, under the provisions of a scheme dated January 29 1901, is being …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… HISTORY THE FAIR OF ST. GILES Winchester, well placed on a river navigable by small craft to the foot of St. Giles … Walkelin procured from William Rufus the grant of a fair on the vigil, feast and morrow of St. Giles, to be held 'on the Eastern hill of Winchester.' Henry I extended the …