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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
… parish, is a structure of rubble and ashlar of three spans with segmental arches. The piers have cutwaters with refuges above and the arches have square soffit-ribs. It … is of two and three storeys; the walls are of rubble with some ashlar-facing and the roofs are slate-covered. The house …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… about 25 yds. S.W. of the supposed building platform, for some 200 yds. S.W. of the site. Arch J, LXXVIII (1921), 453; …
A History of the County of Sussex
… roads, but the configuration of the old western boundary with Barnham and Eastergate suggests that the three parishes … a single area. Most of the parish lies on brickearth, with alluvium in the valleys of streams in the northeast and … a scattering of buildings of the 18th century or earlier, some perhaps built on roadside waste. 34 The name North End …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… yerd; yer; yearde; yeard; y'd; yd; yarde; eard] A term with several meanings, the most important in the Dictionary … was 36 INCH or 3 FOOT long, though sometimes by custom for some TEXTILEs of 37 inches. The term appears in all sections … FOOT, 900 for the yard of 16½ FOOT Only loosely connected with the idea of a unit of measure was the nautical term for …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… at 90 m. above OD. A group of indeterminate earthworks, some of which have now been destroyed, and a rectangular … revealed foundations of a rectangular building with towers at each corner. Tiles described as 'Roman' were … of a sub-rectangular island, completely overgrown, with no visible surface features. The island is surrounded by …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… about 1460 hectares, lies against the county boundary with Bedfordshire which forms its S.E. side. It consists of … the S. side of the outer enclosure, and is traceable for some 200 m. d(3) Enclosures and Iron Age Settlement (SP … m. above OD. A few sherds of Iron Age pottery, associated with an area covered by iron slag, have been found ( BNFAS, 6 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… of the parish. The walls are of local sandstone rubble with dressings of the same material; the roofs are covered with tiles and stone slates. There appears to have been a church here of c. 1200 as evidenced by some capitals at the vicarage, the re-set S. doorway and …
A History of the County of Somerset
… of the manor, which by the 18th century were conterminous with the parish boundaries except in the south, were … date from the 18th and 19th centuries and are of stone with tiled roofs. A small 16thcentury house, converted to … Highgate. 39 The fittings include 18th-century fireplaces, some introduced later, and oak panelling and a staircase of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… as burial dues owed to Eynsham. 45 The benefice was united with Begbroke in 1984, and the joint benefice was in 1986 united with Shipton-onCherwell. 46 Eynsham appropriated the church, … wife of George SpencerChurchill, duke of Marlborough. Some of the wood survived and was used in 1921 to make stalls …
A History of the County of Oxford
… land between the village and the river was meadowland. Some meadows were evidently arable in the Middle Ages; they … West mead (75 a.) lie along the north bank of the river with no physical boundaries between them; together they are … 13 lots, represented by 13 cherrywood balls each inscribed with the name of a lot, 9 belonging to Yarnton and 4 to …