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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… you. I wish I could please myself better with the effects, and that I were not obliged to attribute this opinion of … to the Treasury. The Admiralty spoken to, to furnish two cables, one of 16, the other of 18, inches, to be part of the … at Sir John Fenwick's trial. A warrant signed for two cables to be delivered to Sir Cloudesley Shovell, being part …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… W. by Ermine Street, with some adjustments in either case, and on the S. by the river Rhee. The boundary on the E. with … it rises to a scarp over 250 ft. above O.D., through chalk and gault, to river gravel at about 50 ft.; but the chalk … affords the usual plentiful springs of water. Both Wimpole and Orwell have gained territorially from the disappearance …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… Ancient and historical monuments in Buckinghamshire Wingrave 224. … xxix. N.W.) Ecclesiastical (1). Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, stands in the middle of the village and is built of stone rubble. The roofs of the chancel and S. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… It is entirely on Chalk, capped in places with sands and gravels, and slopes from just over 600 ft. in the N. and 450 ft. in the S. to the South Winterborne which cuts …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Winterbourne Steepleton, beside the river, is the original and still the only settlement in the parish and contains a few houses of the 16th and 17th centuries. The parish has 49 round barrows and a …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the mid 16th century what woodland remained in Wombridge and Priorslee was probably coppiced; 7 in 1556 there were … 10 s. an acre. 8 Among the coppices in the later 17th and 18th century were Queenswood and Wallamoor wood in Wombridge, managed by a keeper, and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… marking out of a site, probably confined on the north and east by the road, later Oxford Street, to the Old … called Hensgrove, acquired by the king from the Templars and taken into the park, perhaps when the town was founded. … the central streets were dominated by overhead electricity cables carried on large pylons. 47 In 1975 Woodstock was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… land outside the park so that men might build hospitia, and he granted a market to the new residents. 5 The story is … Woodstock was one of Henry's principal residences before and after his association with Rosamund and indeed the town … minimal, its streets cluttered with overhead electricity cables; gloving continued but many inhabitants were employed …
A History of the County of Oxford
… New Woodstock was incorporated in 1453 75 the borough and its customs were ancient. The plots laid out at the town's foundation were held by burgage tenure, 76 and the burgesses from the outset, in addition to their … and gradually removed the unsightly network of overhead cables, the last of three large pylons in the town centre …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is situated on the road from Ipswich to Bury St. Edmund's, and was formerly a market-town. The parish comprises 1898 a. … 1080 feet in length, in which ropes of various sizes, cordage for rigging the ships, and cables, were made; this department has been removed from …