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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the Grand Junction canal passes through the parish. Lace-making employs some of the inhabitants. The living is a … the establishment. In the eastern part of the town was the rope-yard, a range of building three stories high, and about … A chapel of ease has been erected on the site of the late rope-yard; and near the entrance of the arsenal is a …
The Environs of London
… two mast-ponds 52; a smith's shop, with several forges for making anchors; a mouldloft; storehouses of various kinds; … 400 yards in length, under the direction of a clerk, for making cables of all dimensions for the Navy. The great ship … warren is a foundery for brass canon; a laboratory 56 for making fireworks for the use of the Army and Navy; and a …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… In 1455-6 it ordered the repair of tenements and the making of hedges, in 1575 the inheritance customs of the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… sediment is in some places a pure clay, adapted to the making of bricks, but is generally a rich mould. Valuable … in 1468, became a cell to the monastery of Pentney. On making some excavations at the Priory farm, various relics of …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Worcester being leaft but meanly by my parentes yet ever making shyft for my living all my lieff tyme till now of lat …