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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… or Roman date include the rampart of the Romano-British town at Chesterton, and the confused system of banks and … the same date, lies on the eastern outskirts of Huntingdon town. The round hill at Conington is probably a …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… be interpreted to mean that the old British church in the town had already been rebuilt. A century later Brihtric, king … of building they are but little later. St. Peter's is a town church, effectively with N. and S. aisles extending the … James', Poole; but here appropriately in a ship-building town they comprise timber mast-like shafts bolted together, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… and with Ilchester to the N.W.; a branch road bypassed the town on the north. Roads from Dorchester to Radipole ( Road … day and is perpetuated by modern roads. It leaves the town as Poundbury Road, the E. end of which points towards the traditional W. gate at Top o' Town, and takes a fairly straight line towards Bradford …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… are few public buildings of note in the area. Shaftesbury Town Hall [61], in the revived Gothic style, dates from 18267 … with an unclassified plan, the latter of class T. A small town house at Shaftesbury (81) with a class-F plan is … are defined on the main front by gabled projecting bays. A town house in Shaftesbury (102) has an unusual plan, a …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… It is reflected in the growth of Caxton as a staging town with a number of inns and a posting station. In 1663 a … small public buildings which were variously described as 'town houses', 'church houses' or 'guild halls'. Five … of foederati founded in the mid 5th century to protect the town of Cambridge and the routes leading inland from it. 5 …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the City of Salisbury
… but he collected quitrent from every householder in the town. The rental for 1455 in Bishop Beauchamp's Liber Niger … documents to provide a general conspectus of the mediaeval town. By the common mediaeval practice of founding a chantry … settlement of the manor, sometimes referred to as 'the old town', lay close to St. Martin's church, mostly along the way …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… The external walls of the barn, probably originally a 'town house', at Fen Ditton (3) had planks set on the inside … of corn' (H. Gunning, Reminiscences of the University, Town and County of Cambridge (1854), I, 412). The drainage … and in 1743 Cole described Reach as a 'little market town, but Trade thereof is lost' (B.M. Add. MS. 5804, 120). …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… Corinium was laid out very early as a large Roman town, once the garrison had moved on. The region had great … of these roads has been excavated as it approaches the town and precise alignments are in places uncertain. … particularly since 1960, have provided many details of the town's development, although the 'rescue' nature of much of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… has Roman origins but the latter is a planned medieval town created sometime before 1173. No major extractive … of Towcester is entirely due to the proximity of the Roman town. As with some of the Iron Age sites in the S. of the … type of occupation remains speculative. The only Roman town in the area was Lactodurum (Towcester (3)) which lay …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… area, and Corby has developed from a village to a major town within the last forty years as a result of the … for the Department of the Environment, as at the Roman town of Irchester (7), and at the cropmarks in Grendon parish … to be the site of a villa. The area around the Roman town at Irchester (7) is notable for a complete lack of …