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A History of the County of Gloucester
… dated 1665 gave a rent-charge for the repair of the Long Bridge. 9 In the 18th century the trustees became responsible …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… said that the town had no other parish church but the west end of the abbey church, 1 and that appears to have been true … go to the assistant or lecturer, George Hopkins. 44 In the end 25 a year was granted to Wells and 30 to Hopkins. 45 … and comprises a long nave, a short sanctuary, and a west end formed by a tall arch rising between two turrets and …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… between the Old Avon and the Mill Avon towards the north end of the town, were apparently the two mills granted to … 1540 to have been on the Swilgate 72 near the Gander Lane bridge; 73 record of it at a later date has not been found. … an old wooden windmill on Windmill Hill, south of Holm Bridge, and replaced it with a brick building; near-by, in …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… that in flood time the rivers made an island of the church end of the town, and in very high floods entered the church. … the left bank of the Severn. Tradition relates that the bridge across the Avon was built by King John, and certainly … bailiff of Tewkesbury was to have two oaks for making a bridge. 109 The first record of the tradition suggests that …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… market tolls given by King John for the repair of the Long Bridge. 24 From 1201 to 1208 the rents and dues of the town, … and the functions of the street commissioners came to an end in 1850 when the council acquired the powers of a local … 1796. 113 It is a large red-brick building, south of Holm Bridge, which ceased to be a home for old people in 1955 and …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… added two galleries and started a third at the east end, 75 but most of his additions had been removed by 1964. …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… by the churchwardens in 1600; 4 that towards the end of the 16th century the governors of the free school were … built in 1812 51 and opened in 1813 on a site at the far end of Barton Street, on the north side, given by a Quaker; …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… the time the Sabrina Cinema was opened near the north end of High Street, in 1934. The Sabrina Cinema was itself … Benbow', which in 1788 stood in the meadow near the Long Bridge. 92 Buildings. Manor-houses, churches and chapels, … the castle at Holm Hill, the high ground south of Swilgate Bridge. In Leland's time some ruins of the bottoms of walls …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… of the possible Romano-British settlement is at the north end of the town, near a crossing of the Avon a little above the Long Bridge. From there a road may have crossed the Avon Ham and … close by the Severn under the Mythe Tute towards Bow Bridge in Twyning, 1 and it was in the northern end of the …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… chapels belonging to religious foundations and one was a bridge chapel. The church of ST. MARY consists of a chancel … a nave 41 ft. 6 in. by 18 ft. 4 in., although the west end is only 18 ft. wide through the north wall breaking … St. Peter-in-the-West. The church of St. Peter, near the bridge, appears to have been built on a tumulus overlooking …