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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the others in Wisbech hundred. Its nucleus is an island of gravel, not very perceptible except from the west, but rising …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… stones, now in the vicarage garden, were discovered when digging the foundations. All the fittings are modern. The …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… labour required in 1251 ad desiccandum campos, the day's digging on 'Ramesinedik' and inside and outside around the … approaching or exceeding £5. 72 Scouring old dykes or digging new ones cost 2 d. or 3 d. a perch, the labourers' …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… to relieve unemployment (Oldham, Hist. Wisb. River, 6). A gravel walk along East Field Bank was laid out in 1824 (Diary …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… N.W. of the R. Allen, on a slight hillock of clay on river gravel. Flint and mortar footings 4 ft. wide formed a circle … a mosaic floor set in mortar. On a platform of compacted gravel to the S.W. were the slighter flint footings of an … 9 ft. from the N. W. end. A semicircular extension of the gravel platform, 35 ft. wide, projected 14 ft. further S.W. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… hills, which are composed of ferruginous or basaltic gravel. The springs which rise in the parsonage-grounds turn …
A History of the County of Oxford
… on the line of Puck Lane, at the highest point of the gravel island, was suggested in the 19th century, albeit for … limewash. Church Green, with its 'wide and handsome gravel walk' leading to the church, was especially admired. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 18th century and early 19th they made small payments for digging gravel, for repairs to railings and a drain at Church Green, … in the market place, failing to scour watercourses, digging a well in High Street, and, in 1740, creating a …