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The Environs of London
… been found very insufficient for that purpose. A piece of ground, containing about fifty acres, was taken on lease by … found necessary entirely to rebuild it on a new site. The ground was purchased, and the foundation laid in 1726, but … of large dimensions is now making upon some additional ground (about twelve acres) taken into the dockyard about the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… to its name. The town is pleasantly situated on elevated ground, commanding extensive and pleasingly diversified …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… (NRO). Ridge-and-furrow of these fields exists on the ground or can be traced on air photographs over much of the parish, indicating that all but the very wettest ground along the Wootton Brook and the R. Nene was under … mainly in interlocked furlongs, but on the steeper ground to the W. of the village it is usually in end-on …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… south end of the village. 13 The church stands on rising ground and, when it was built in the 14th century, replaced a … with heavily moulded beams and chamfered joists on the ground floor, a heavily moulded beam on the first floor, and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… but more intent on plunder than prudent in securing their ground, they spread themselves over the open country, for the … situated at the base and on the acclivity of elevated ground rising gently from the east bank of the river Severn, … St. Nicholas' comprises 47 acres, homesteads and garden-ground. The living is a discharged rectory, valued at 16. 10. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Oxford
… storeys with an open loggia of round-headed arches on the ground floor, round-headed windows in the middle bay of the … room has two 15th-century moulded ceiling-beams. On the ground and first floors is some 18th-century panelling. The … is of three storeys with a basement and modern attics; the ground floor has a range of round-headed windows under arches …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Aprill which utterly consumed and burned downe to the ground all their dwellinge howse and all their houshould …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… sayd wyfe upon the shoulders that she felle to the ground, and as she [offe...?] [illegible] from the ground he the sayd Staunton with the sayd hanger strake her … by course of law and thereupon and upon noe other ground (as the said William and Thomas Ashwells owne speeches …