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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… to 6 ft. deep, with at least nine closes up to 150 yds. long on either side; the closes are bounded by low banks and … arranged in rectangular furlongs up to 150 yds. long remain in Woolland Park. To N. and E. of the park … dyke, which faces S. up a sharp rise, is about 160 yds. long. The bank is 30 ft. across and about 3 ft. high; the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Edward III. held Wolueston as baron of Makerfield. How long the property continued in this family does not appear, … years, with so much skill and attention that, during this long period, not a single accident occurred. Thus arose the … tonnage. Some years since, a capacious Basin, 400 feet long and 290 feet in mean breadth, was excavated; it is …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… foliage; the rest of the ceiling is occupied by four long panels enclosed by modelled plaster-work. The small room … of one storey; the walls are of red brick. The building is long and narrow and has two large windows on either side of a …
The Environs of London
… of Eltham, I am not certain. Whichever it was, it did not long continue the property of that church. Eltham, with its …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… of Parliament of 1778. Three open fields, Preston Hedge, Long and Blackemoor or West Fields are recorded in a series …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in 1232 or 1233 it escheated to the king. Thereafter it long remained a royal hundred, closely linked first with …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… consist of a deep sediment, deposited by floods during a long series of ages: this sediment is in some places a pure … or the populous parts of Staffordshire. The county has long been famous for the culture of hops, in all cases upon a … and by the same engineer; it is five miles and a half long, with five locks and a fall of about 60 feet, and the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Oxford
… head and is lined with 18th-century panelling. The long W. Block (Plate 197) of the S. range is the least …