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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… a circular panel (Plate 89) with the bust of a sea or river god surrounded by concentric decorative borders. To the … 6 ft. square and 2 ft. deep, with a pelta pattern in black and white on its mosaic floor. About 100 ft. S.W. of … with smaller, fish and scallop shells. The colours are black, buff, grey, purple, pale blue, white and yellow. A …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… S. wall, (4) to George Lisle, rector of Rivenhall, 1687, black and white marble tablet with shield of arms. Floor-slab … and scarp dropping sharply to the marshy ground near the river Brain. The inner work, which stands at a higher level …
Records relating to the Barony of Kendale
… ground called Holme Island or Holme-uponthe-Sands in the river near Meathop, in the county of Westmorland, containing … 141. See Holme, par. Burton in Kendale. Helton Tarn on the river Winster. Lord of Witherslack. The plea was probably …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 818 inhabitants. This parish, which is situated on the river Colne, comprises about 7000 acres: the soil is … the road from Bromyard to Hereford, and by a branch of the river Froome: the Gloucester and Hereford canal was opened to … are very extensive, embracing the town of Preston, the river Ribble, and the district of the Fylde. Excellent stone …
A History of the County of Oxford
… end, at what may both have been early crossings of the river Windrush. 1 Outlying mills at Hailey (near modern New … rent of 13 6 s. 8 d., increased by the 1330s and until the Black Death to 14 13 s. 4 d. after Waleys fulling mill had … included only two corn mills at Woodford. 11 After the Black Death the two life tenants were unwilling to continue …
A History of the County of Oxford
… because Oxfordshire, not considered an unemployment 'black-spot', was not a priority for central-government aid. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… more markets and fairs, for improved navigability of the river Windrush as far as the Thames, and for more 'settled … the town', encouraging weavers to move 'up or down river, where they could work as deceitfully as before'. 102 … Witney maltsters sold malt in London, transporting it down river by barge. 177 In 1759 twelve maltsters were prosecuted …
A History of the County of Oxford
… WITNEY BOROUGH Introduction The town of Witney, 1 by the river Windrush some 10 miles (16 km.) west of Oxford, … part of the town stands at an early crossing of the river Windrush, on a limestone cornbrash island formerly lying between two branches of the river and surrounded by low-lying alluvium. The river's …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the 20th century. The house was probably that south of the river Windrush and north of Mill Street sold to John and … arms, Nicholas Gunn's hall in 1602 containing two black bills, a halberd, a headpiece (or simple helmet), a … using stone from the duke of Marlborough's quarries at Black Bourton: possibly the duke defrayed all or part of the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… that was the 'old lock-up' condemned in 1852 as 'the Black Hole of Calcutta in miniature, unfit . . . for the … to provide a new well and pump and reserved access to the river for washing clothes, with use of hedges in an adjoining … and a new main sewer flushed with water piped from the river Windrush was laid along High Street, though there was …