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A History of the County of Stafford
… 1635 by Ellen Parker, the founder of an almshouse in High Street. 11 The grounds were let in the early 18th century to … from south-east in 1790s By 1888 the tenant was a New Street brewer, John Allen Bindley, whose initials and …
A History of the County of Stafford
… at Burton mills in 1789 and registered a house in New Street for Particular Baptists in 1790. By 1792 the church … opened a chapel on the south side of Cat (later Station) Street in 1803; enlarged by the addition of a Grecian portico … illustrated in R. Lewis, Staffs. Churches and Chapels in Old Picture Postcards (Nottingham, 1996), no. 57. Burton …
A History of the County of Stafford
… along the western edge of the town, across the end of Cat Street. 9 It was being used as a drain by the mid 16th … Horninglow Street and west arm of the Trent, replacing the old line of Branston brook. 1 In the later 1850s there were … about river pollution and the consequent death of fish. 2 The commissioners believed that the pollution was …
A History of the County of Stafford
… at the parish church with 'little singing cakes after the old popish fashion'. 6 He fled to the Continent in 1583 after … to celebrate mass there. He is said to have used first an old malthouse at the back of the Crown inn, High Street, and then a cottage at the back of the Old White Lion …
A History of the County of Stafford
… baiting in 1792. Baiting apparently last took place in New Street in the earlier 19th century. 12 Fighting cocks were … for workers at Ind Coope in 1949). 16 Members had to fish in pools in the Burton area before fish returned to the … p. 3; G. Sowerby and R. Farman, Second Collection. More Old Postcards of Burton upon Trent (Burton, 1984), 84. A. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… The parish is situated on the line of the Roman Watling-street, and intersected by the Ashby-de-laZouch canal. It … a still more ancient foundation; one of the chapels of the old church is still existing. There are some remains of the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… a modern building incorporating a considerable quantity of old materials and fittings from demolished buildings in the … fireplaces, ceiling-beams and panelling came from the Old Court Farm at Batcombe. Other stonework details came from … S. of (10), was built early in the 18th century. a(12) Old Dairy House, opposite (11), retains some original …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… on the axis of the early settlement along part of High Street, N. of St. Mary's church; the former church of St. … of an area of downland on Newmarket Heath and one of old enclosures around Breach Farm (TL 604683). The name … bell in spirelet, by Pack and Chapman, 1776. Bell frame: old and reconstructed. Benefactors' Tables: in W. tower, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… by the Devil's Ditch, apparently 6th-century, and Reach Old Lode, perhaps originally Roman. 4 Probably since medieval … a mile, before dropping sharply to where the long village street stretches north-south at c. 10 m. Beyond it the fen to … and called the High lode by 1580, 15 but renamed the old lode in the 1670s, 16 runs west from the north end of the …