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A History of the County of Leicester
… The Earl of Huntingdon objected to the second point on the ground that it would diminish the liberties of the honor of …
A History of the County of Leicester
… and churchwardens of St. Martin's conveyed a piece of ground in Friar Lane to trustees for the erection of a …
A History of the County of Leicester
… a middle-class district began to grow up on the rising ground known as Highfields. 131 New building 1850-1860 The … about 1838, and wrote that it had earlier been vacant ground composed of tracts 'enclosed in every direction by … some 'back-toback' houses, consisting of one room on the ground floor and one room above, were to be found, mostly in …
A History of the County of Leicester
… 7 Leicester town stands on the side of a little rising ground, though at a distance from the adjacent hills it looks … of strength. In this Newark which is a large piece of ground are severall good houses some of stone and brick in … across the West Bridge were, it is true, on low-lying ground which was unattractive for new building as long as …
A History of the County of Leicester
… in this field adjacent to the river, later known as Lammas Ground or the Abbey Meadows, appears always to have belonged … had a gabled roof and 'consisted of a porch, a hall on the ground floor, and a large solar . . . which hung over the … have been described elsewhere. 127 In 1086 corn could be ground at 3 mills whose toll was taken by separate lords. 128 …
A History of the County of Leicester
… fellmonger had 40 worth of malt and 35 in a crop upon the ground that he could hardly have grown himself since he had … ordered in 1624 that 'all such leys and other greensward ground which hath beene plowed upp within the South Feilds at … garrets, and cellars were added to houses to conserve ground-space, while coal-houses and coal-fired grates were …
A History of the County of Stafford
… is situated on the Keuper Sandstone between the high ground of Cannock Chase on the west and the valleys of the Trent and the Tame on the east. The ground within the city slopes down from 382 ft. (116 m.) in …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… by the mouth of Heirus" (or Yare.) But when this grew firm ground, and Yarmouth was built, the course of the sea was …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… pillars, with such violence, that they sunk far into the ground, and all the monks fled for fear out of the quire, except three, one of which fell flat on the ground, and the other two held fast on the stalls, and so …