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A History of the County of Berkshire
… set up at the end of the drawbridge across the castle ditch, just before the gate of the castle. Henry stayed at … his stall in the chapel and thrown out into the castle ditch. 236 Elizabeth spent the autumn of 1570 at Windsor. … the constable ordered all leases of land in the castle ditch to be surrendered and regranted, to be held during the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… diameter at the base. There are no traces of an encircling ditch. ConditionFairly good. c(3). Foundations, traces of, …
A History of the County of Stafford
… constructed in the form of an embankment with a protective ditch, and a ditch just over the township boundary in Bretby survived …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Burton solicitor Abraham Bass. The name is derived from a ditch which surrounded a medieval rabbit warren there. 4 FIG. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… consists of a bank 10 ft. to 15 ft. wide with an inner ditch 8 ft. to 10 ft. wide. On the S.W. where it coincides … acres, is bounded to N.W. and S.W. by a bank and external ditch; in the S. part it is intersected by the bank and ditch of a mediaeval deer park (7). The main part of the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… two dykes, (a) about 45 ft. across, overall, with an outer ditch, (b) about 34 ft. across, overall, with an inner ditch; the dykes met at an acute angle and formed the W. side … long fields, the lynchets of which had formed against its ditch. About 150 yds S. of this partly enclosed area, and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… to the W. by a scarp 4 ft. to 6 ft. high, with an internal ditch 15 ft. wide. To the E. of the farm were formerly six …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… bounded by low banks. Roman and Prehistoric (19) Combs Ditch (8505021788710000), a linear dyke, follows a sinuous … Spetisbury on the N.E. Winterborne Whitechurch. (19) Combs Ditch. Cross-section near East Down Plantation. The dyke consists of a bank with a ditch on the N.E. side. The bank varies from 18 ft. to 28 ft. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Dumovaria, the capital of the Durotriges. It has a treble ditch and rampart, inclosing an irregular oval area of 44 … a parish, in the union of Blandford, hundred of Coombs-Ditch, Blandford division of Dorset, 4 miles (S. W.) from the … present church, on the side of a hill, commences Coombs-Ditch, which gives name to the hundred, and where courts were …