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A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… a parish, in the district of Kyle, county of Ayr, 5 miles (S. W.) from Kilmarnock; containing, with the late quoad sacra … to the erection of a more commodious building on the town-green. The Guildhall, or Spire hotel, was erected by the … to 400 feet high; an isthmus of low land, about two miles broad, connects it with the rest of the parish, but it is …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… acres of meadow, pasture wood six qu: long, and four broad. In the said king Edwards time it did yield 30l. and six sextaries of honey; in king William's 20l. with all which there belonged to it, having Soc … to the Gyldehous, four perches long, and as many broad, and the said monks were not to receive any more land …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the hundred of Blackheath, W. division of Surrey, 6 miles (S. S. E.) from Godalming; containing 669 inhabitants. This … is dedicated to St. Mary. Dunsforth, Upper, with Branton-Green DUNSFORTH, UPPER, with Branton-Green, a township, in …
A History of the County of Stafford
… of 214. 4 The population in 1951 was 295. 5 Dunston's marly loam soil and the meadows by the Penk were commended … formerly single-storied. At the south-west end a cobbler's workshop was added before the mid-19th century, and this … estate consisted of the Slang Toft (about 3 a.) and the Broad Toft (about 10 a.). 110 Between at least 1851 and 1872 …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… The two sites described below may have been linked by broad, ditched tracks, seen as crop-marks on air photographs … located precisely, was uncovered in 1924 in a single day's excavation. Walls and concrete floor lay in a field with … Brown. (2) Enclosure (SO 987085), probably Romano-British, S. of Field's Farm, is associated with a feature which …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… county of Durham, and the head of a union, 67 miles (E. S. E.) from Carlisle, 87 (N. E.) from Lancaster, 67 (N. W. by … into a divine prohibition against the return of the saint's remains to their former resting-place. They likewise … approaches to the walks, one by an avenue from the Palace-green, a large open area before the cathedral. Framwell-gate …
A History of the County of Durham
… passage to the roof, but was blocked at the time of Wyatt's restoration. In the ground stage the wall surface below the … still span the triforium beneath the aisle roof, and by broad pilasters on the outer wall. In the western double bay, … by the Partitions of the Lighte made strong, and equally broad with the Gallrey.' The original sill-string, which, …
A History of the County of Durham
… used as a prison, while the rest was taken by the prior's lodging. The nature of the site, which is longer from north … completed by 1080, and it would seem probable that Walcher's work was planned round a cloister about 115 ft. square, the … a public way from the cloister to the outer court (College Green) by a modern doorway in the south wall. It is a …
A History of the County of Durham
… February 1903, one-sixth of the net income of Henry Smith's charity (see post) was made applicable in scholarships … tenable at this school. In 1911 nine scholarships of 2 2 s. each, and sixteen scholarships of 1 10 s. each, were so … the old almshouses situate on the east side of the Palace Green. Bishop Cosin endowed the almshouses with a yearly …
A History of the County of Sussex
… shrunk by 1875 to three or four scattered houses. St. Mary's Farmhouse there, which was 18thcentury perhaps with an … rural parishes when the West Worthing Waterworks Company's reservoir was opened off the ChichesterBrighton road in … in 934, 17 presumably including Drungewick, in Wisborough Green, whose name indicates an outlying dairy-farm belonging …