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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… are also glass-works on an extensive scale, works for making naphtha and pyroligneous acid, kilns for burning lime, … In the 10th of George II., an act was obtained for making the Worsley brook navigable, but the design was not …
A History of the County of York
… Residence was enforced only by the economic pressure of making it a qualification for a share in the common fund and, … the Apostle; and the great work of the year 1482 was the making for the choir of a tabernacle and figure of St. Peter, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… occasionally supplemented by traces of banks and scarps making up the original continuous lines. The areas of the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… homes. In the Middle Ages and later Worthing was a small agricultural and fishing hamlet of less importance than the … afforded higher rewards to local farm-workers than agricultural overtime. 70 In the 1920s and 1930s Worthing … benefited like other resorts from an increase in holiday-making. 91 In 1946 113, 346 return rail bookings from …
A History of the County of Sussex
… absorbed Heene civil parish to the west, of 426 a., making a total of 1,425 a., the extra 20 a. presumably being …
A History of the County of Sussex
… which, with erosion to the east, reduced the amount of agricultural land. 21 About 1848 there were 140 a. of pasture … and early-20th-century boundary changes brought more agricultural land into the borough. Ham farm, in Durrington … until the 1850s. 95 About 1773 Thomas Wicks 96 was making red bricks in Worthing. He later discovered on …
A History of the County of Sussex
… 4 which had become a National school by c. 1823. 5 Net-making was taught in 1824 and later, the boys receiving part …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the Town of Stamford
… fined for erecting a dwelling, enclosing waste land and making a garden (Stamford Baron, Court Rolls, April 1830). …