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A History of the County of Shropshire
… Benthall lies on the right bank of the Severn facing the town of Ironbridge. 77 The former parish is largely rural, … steep and often obstructed and was replaced in 1828 by a new road looping east of Broseley town. 93 BENTHALL 1938 By … Hall was gradually deserted at that time in favour of the new industrial areas of Bower Yard and Broseley Wood, the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a neat cruciform structure, enlarged in 1838. There is a town estate, consisting of 60 acres, which lets for 80, … Berkeley (St. Mary) BERKELEY ( St. Mary), a market-town and parish, in the union of Thornbury, Upper division of … Fitz-Hardinge, however, was so greatly annoyed in his new possession by the Berkeleys of Dursley, that Henry II. …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… of the old nave were used up in making two windows in the new south aisle, one of three lights and one of two, the … modern basin. The two-centred arch has an edge-roll with a row of dog-tooth ornament on the soffit. The east window of … orders with square jambs. The nave arcades are entirely new, of three bays with circular columns, splayed bases and …
A History of the County of Sussex
… remains; it seems that in the 13th century a completely new church of chancel, nave, and tower was built, while in …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… by Edward I. It remained for long an important market town, though severe fires in the 17th, 18th and 19th … the S. wall somewhat further to the S.; included in the new S. wall was an arcade, which survives, opening to an … was therefore demolished and the space included in the new aisle, an enlarged archway being formed in eastward …
Old and New London
… do please, E'en in the midst of gilded palaces; And in our town the prospect gives delight, Which opens round the … Sir John BarnardHighwaymen and FootpadsHay HillBolton Row"The Three Chairmen""The Running Footman"Charles Street … house in] Berkeley Square, and am as well pleased with my new habitation as I can be with anything at present. Lady …
Survey of London
… roadway on the south side of these buildings to link their new streets of Bruton Street and New Berkeley Street (now the eastern side of Berkeley Square) … to face the square. 3 In 1790 the occupants of this row included a hosier, a fruiterer, a shoemaker, a watchmaker …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Peter) BERKHAMPSTEAD, GREAT ( St. Peter), a market-town and parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of … it with 8000; the property now consists of 9300 in the New South Sea annuities. Almshouses for six aged widows were … in the king's books at 26. 13. 4., and in the gift of New-College, Oxford: the tithes have been commuted for 500, …
A History of the County of Hertford
… that Henry II confirmed to the men and merchants of the town all laws and customs which they had in the time of … very doubtful if advantage was ever fully taken of these new privileges. 146 A large proportion of the energy of the new corporation seems from their records to have been …
A History of the County of Hertford
… hamlet of Potten End (two miles to the north-east of the town on the top of the hill, made into an ecclesiastical … and North Western Railway, opened 1 January, 1838. A new station was built in 1874. Among the older place-names … Strickelane, le Shopperowe (probably now Middle Row), Northmulane, Jacobsbern, Hulfed, the field of St. …