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A History of the County of Oxford
… acquired the stewardship in 1668, established an annual horse race in the park, 17 offered gifts to the corporation, … agreeing to stand down. Lovelace temporarily withdrew his horse races to Oxford and by 1681 his influence, despite …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 988 inhabitants. This parish, which reaches to the sea-coast, comprises about 6000 acres. Stone of good quality …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… manors c. 1540, and was therefore presumably near Horse Pill. 3 The Duke of Beaufort had 400 salmon putchers at Horse Pill in 1866 4 and owned the fishing rights in the … in the Wye River Authority in 1969. 6 The tenants of the Horse Pill fishery since 1926 have been E. J. Harris and his …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… south-west the boundary follows the stream that flows into Horse Pill from the road from Gloucester to Chepstow, but …
A History of the County of Somerset
… the alluvial Brue valley and averages 5 m. (16 ft.) above sea level. It is the site not only of part of the course of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… summit of the escarpment at an altitude of 900 ft. above sea-level. Below the Chalk, at 500 ft. to 600 ft., is a … Bulbarrow (77500574), bowl, lies at about 870 ft. above sea-level near the summit of the Chalk escarpment, here known … level top of the escarpment at just under 900 ft. above sea-level. Diam. about 50 ft., ht. 3 ft. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… made here are in great estimation. One of the largest horse-fairs in England is held at Woolpit on September 16th, … chapel. Mrs. Mary Wiseman, in 1758, bequeathed 1000 South Sea annuities, for educating and clothing orphan sons of … per annum. Mrs. Withers, in 1750, bequeathed 600 Old South Sea annuities, of which 100 were to be laid out in building a …
The Environs of London
… a repository for military machines, both for the land and sea service 57; in which are also various models of bridges, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… by the Motherbank, and on the east by an inlet of the sea, across which is a narrow causeway called Wootton bridge, … base of Dunkery, which is 1668 feet above the level of the sea, is a mine of iron-ore in active operation; there are …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… afterwards joined by Lord Coventry with some troops of horse, and expecting further aid from the king, began to act … (St. Michael) WORKINGTON ( St. Michael), a market-town, sea-port, and parish, in the union of Cockermouth, Allerdale … the southern bank of the Derwent, near its influx into the sea, and, in addition to the older part, which is narrow and …