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A History of the County of Middlesex
… There is no evidence that during this period the climatic and general environment of the Thames valley differed from … The decline from the climatic optimum of the Mesolithic and Neolithic periods continued. Barley appears to have been … finds is from the Thames, and to a lesser extent from the Lea valley, although the number of 'dry land' finds from the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… the Near East. From there the knowledge spread to southern and central Europe and eventually to Britain. 3 The earliest dated iron objects … perhaps 'dark river'; 86 Colne, of unknown meaning; 87 Lea, meaning perhaps 'bright' or 'light' river or 'river …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… when the Thames was flowing through the vale of St. Albans and, later, through the Finchley Gap, and the earliest Middlesex material can be dated to a period … well into Hertfordshire, and eastward across the River Lea. 37 Although there is a wide variation in height over …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… stages of his cultural development. So far as the evidence and available records allow, it has been shown how these … have presented themselves in Middlesex. For comparisons and correlations, however, it has been necessary to consider … in the tributary valleys, especially locally along the Lea 55 and Colne which delimit Middlesex to the east and west …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… be made in the British Neolithic between settlers and native (Mesolithic) peoples who learned the new ways of … hollows or pits at Heathrow, about one mile from the Colne and over five from the Thames. These contained pieces of at … Clay. Two landward concentrations are notable: one in the Lea valley between Hackney and Walthamstow, and another, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… the gazetteer, but the distribution pattern remains thin and difficult to explain on evironmental grounds. However, … the area was certainly in early contact with Roman London and it seems possible that, even earlier, Julius Caesar may … lay through eastern Middlesex, perhaps following the Lea. All that is certain is that, probably only a few days …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… ten vills lying between the Icknield Way on the south and the river Cam or Rhee on the west and north. Melbourn, … at 5 each, and the two Mordens, later Steeple and Guilden Morden, at 15 hides together. Four more vills north of the … exercised almost exclusive jurisdiction over Guilden Morden, Tadlow, Litlington, and Abington Pigotts, and partly …
Survey of London
… Artillery Passage and south side of Artillery Lane CHAPTER XIV - Artillery Passage and South Side of Artillery Lane In the seventeenth and … him as formerly of Spitalfields, mercer, but then of Morden College on Blackheath. It is not informative about his …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Andrew) ASHINGDON ( St. Andrew), a parish, in the union and hundred of Rochford, S. division of Essex, 2 miles (N. by … rectory, valued in the king's books at 8. 13. 4., and in the gift of the Nottidge family: the tithes have been … Chesterfield; containing, with the chapelry of Dethwick-Lea, and the hamlet of Holloway, 3482 inhabitants. This …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… from whom it descended by female heirs to the Veres and Trussells: about 1580 it was sold by Edward Vere, Earl of … Esq., of Manchester, who has much improved the mansion and grounds, and introduced the latest system of agriculture. … or Ashton-Upon-Ribble ASHTON, or ASHTON-UPON-RIBBLE, with Lea, Cottam, and Ingol, a township, in the parish and union …