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A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Selkirk; containing, with the village of Ettrick-Bridge and part of Yarrowford, 1264 inhabitants. This place, which … the whole of the male population are engaged. The nearest market-town is Lerwick, the capital of Shetland, distant, due … scattered over the surface. The chief grain cultivated is bear and oats, the average annual value of which is about …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… several summits. There is a barrow on it in the south and, also in the south, it was marked by many stones and mounds which survived in the later 19th century. 29 For … of the Kennet flows south-eastwards across the parish and has deposited a small amount of alluvium where it leaves …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… YAXLEY (C.b.). (O.S. 6 in. V. S.E.) Yaxley is a parish and large village 4 m. S.S.W. of Peterborough. The church is … plain parapet with two grotesque gargoyles and a collared bear on the angle. In the E. wall are three graduated … front and the timber-framing is exposed; the lower timbers bear the numerals employed when setting up the frame. Inside …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 3379 inhabitants. This township, which includes Upper and Lower Yeadon, and Henshaw, comprises about 1730 acres, chiefly high … is still of respectable appearance. A great cattle-market is held on the fourth Wednesday in every month. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yelford Manors and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. In 1086 Walter son of Ponz held of the … king 3 hides in YELFORD, together with estates in Westwell and Alwoldsbury (in Alvescot or Clanfield) and a piece of …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… Vaenor Isav Y Yerbeston YERBESTON, a parish, in the union and hundred of Narberth, county of Pembroke, South Wales, 4 … Wales; containing 793 inhabitants, of whom 692 are in the market-town of Trgaron. Ystrad YSTRAD, with Garth, a hamlet, … and culm raised in these are partly used in drying malt, and burning lime. Great quantities of limestone are …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… 6 in. (a)XI, S.E. (b)XXI, N.E.) Yetminster is a parish and village 4 m. S.S.W. of Sherborne. The church is the … The walls are of local rubble with dressings of Ham Hill and other local stone and the roofs are lead-covered. The Chancel was built c. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ( St. Mary), a parish, in the hundred of Stodden, union and county of Bedford, 4 miles (E.) from Higham-Ferrers; … in that neighbourhood, along the Malton road; and many market-gardens are cultivated in this thriving and populous … provincially called big, which is six-rowed barley; and of bear, four-rowed. Besides being occasionally grown in other …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… of shaped wood designed to fit across a person's back and shoulders, with a chain hanging from each end onto which a PAIL could be attached and thus carried with less strain. OED earliest date of use: … denotes a TREE for growing on. There was a considerable market for garden, woodland and orchard plants and a foreign …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York
… area (W. of the Ouse), the Central area (between the Ouse and the Foss), and the Walmgate area (E. of the Foss). In the following … historical resume, first the two castles are described and then the city defences, following the circuit S.W. of the …