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A History of the County of Warwick
… Act of 1801 had been that they were authorized to fix the level of new streets, and they could enforce that provision … to exact tolls. 19 The commissioners' power to fix the level of new streets 20 made them a sort of planning … had improved, infant mortality had remained at a high level. The difficult nature of the work in this sphere was …
A History of the County of Warwick
… suffrage to working men, and thirdly, the relatively high level of technical and political education of the Birmingham …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… an outlying portion of the bishop of Ely's manor of Hatfield; 3 of High and East Barnet, which belonged to the … on the then uninclosed slopes which fell eastward from the Hatfield-Barnet road on which Warwick's left was stationed. … the Cecils, to whom it belonged, their present estate at Hatfield. In 1608 he caused his house at Enfield to be pulled …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 3,226 taxpayers to the point very near the ground level where the tax collector recorded the 3 taxpayers whom …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… or waste; the soil is clay and sand, and the surface level, and in some parts subject to inundation. There are … extensive tracts of rich pasture; the surface is generally level. The substratum abounds with stone of good quality for …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… rolling heathland, nowhere much over 200 ft. above sea level. This land yields brick earth and pipe-clay which is … but the line of the earlier roof is visible at a lower level on the E. wall of the N. tower. The North Tower (10 ft. … three of 1876. In the S.E. corner is an opening at a high level from the former rood stair. The treatment of the S. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… it attains its summit here, being about 400 feet above the level of the terminus at Nine Elms, London; and at the … 669 are arable, and 500 pasture and meadow: the surface is level; the soil is various, but rich, except on the moorland, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… to the S. and W., less steeply to the N. and is nearly level towards the E. The internal area is about 1 acre and … steepening of the remaining three sides of the spur at a level of some 1220 ft. below the top of the spur and the consequent formation of a berm at that level. As the N. slope of the hill is not so rapid as that on …