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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… on the southwest old open field divisions and the Car Dyke or Old Tillage, the 2nd-century navigation channel, which, … isolated amid marshes. 14By then an English village had long been settled in the south: early AngloSaxon pottery has … houses and 10 cottages recorded in 1617 c. 26 had only one or two bays, and 50 had three, while only 13 were certainly …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 1342. A few nuns remained in the buildings at Waterbeach or escaped back to them, but in 1350-1 royal and papal … death as a monk at Ely. 71 The monks did not remain long at Denny. By 1169 Ely priory was treating for its … in 1631 he left the Denny lease to his daughter Anne (or Agnes) (d. 1646), who already lived in the abbey, wife of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… ground in 1787 by a group including John Baxter, long their teacher. 39There were many dissenters drawn from …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… of land rarely more than 400 yds. wide and nearly 3 miles long. The S. third is all on Chalk, sloping down to the N. … Watercombe was never an ecclesiastical parish, but for long claimed to be extra-parochial. However its history is …
Survey of London
… 1811. 56 Although the enabling Act was exceptionally long and detailed, two more Acts were obtained (in 1813 and … the bridge made a detour to cross the river by Blackfriars or Westminster Bridges, which were free. 58 Under the … design but made wider to take a greater volume of traffic; or (3) that a modern bridge should be built in place of the …
Old and New London
… extent of fields. There were no houses, excepting three or four in the immediate neighbourhood of what is now called … and Queries, the conclusion arrived at leaving little or no doubt as to the legality of her union with the young … a restaurant, and bears the name of the "Pall Mall." The long gallery was decorated from a loggia of the Vatican at …
Analytical index to the series of records known as the Remembrancia
… refused to take the oath either to observe the statute or to make a true account, which, because it had not been … A severe frost began early in the year, and lasted for a long season. Fairs and other diversions were held on the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… and part of the land of a fourth settlement, Murcott (Long Buckby (5)). The sites of Silsworth and Murcott are … remains (unlocated but perhaps SP 578695, 580695 or 585697; Fig. 99), lie somewhere in the extreme W. of the … associated with a number of indeterminate banks or scarps and surrounded by ridge-and-furrow. d(3) Deserted …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Cashio, or liberty of St. Alban's, county of Hertford; containing, … The poorlaw union of Watford comprises 6 parishes or places, containing a population of 18,009. Watford (St. … with which the district abounds, and for which it has long been celebrated. The village is pleasantly situated on …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire
… and re-set in the outer wall. ConditionGood. b(7). The Hit or Miss Inn, is a plastered timber building, probably of the … plastered outside, and with tiled roofs. The plan is long and narrow, and has a projecting two-storeyed timber … of the class-rooms is an oak chimney piece of late 16th or early 17th-century date, evidently brought from elsewhere; …