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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… of eight contour strip lynchets with risers up to 20 ft. high covers some 15 acres. These and two other strip lynchets … 160 yds. long. The bank is 30 ft. across and about 3 ft. high; the ditch is 21 ft. wide and 1 ft. deep. To the W. it … has been much damaged. The bank is 12 ft. wide and 2 ft. high; the ditch is 15 ft. wide and less than 1 ft. deep. On …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… monument to the family of Walter, of whom David Walter was high sheriff of the county, and commanded a regiment of horse … town was the rope-yard, a range of building three stories high, and about 1080 feet in length, in which ropes of … is connected with the wings, which are two stories high, by arched portals of stone forming the entrances into …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… of St. Nicholas, Plumstead, stands on the N. side of the High Street. The walls of the old building are generally of … modern and the westernmost of late 12th-century date, set high in the wall and of a single round-headed light; below it … with an open four-centred arch on the W. side and a window high up in the N. wall, of two four-centred lights in a …
The Environs of London
… the direction of a Commission of Sewers. The Thames at high-tide is nearly a mile wide at Woolwich, and the water, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Eccleshall to Newport, in Shropshire; and near it is a high paved road which Dr. Plot considers to be a Roman via … surrounding country, which is extremely fertile and in a high state of cultivation. It consists principally of one …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… and moulded capitals, the shafts raised on bases 20c mm. high. The E. respond has a polygonal half-shaft with a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Leigh, and Kidlington; Freeland church was a centre of high churchmanship and controversy from its foundation in …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… reg. 55. Inf. from the agent for the Crown Estate Com., 42 High Street, Marlborough. Rot. Hund. (Rec. Com.), ii (1), …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Richard were made prisoners here, and beheaded at the high cross; and a fine of 500 marks was paid to the king for … in the neighbouring villages: the gloves made are in high estimation, not only in the several parts of England, … The market-place, nearly opposite the town-hall, in High-street, is spacious, erected in 1804, at an expense of …