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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Grieve (online), Pemberton (1746), Stedman (online). Acorn [acorne; achorn] The fruit or seed of the OAK tree in … agricultural writer, John Houghton, noted that an acorn and BRAN mixture for fattening a HOG or an OX, … in fresh water to remove the toxicity [Anon (1695)]. The acorn was also one of the many decorative side-pieces found …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… remodelled at the same date, incorporate earlier ranges. A cottage was built next to the school in the early 20th … the later 16th century the glebe comprised c. 17 a. and a cottage, and in the late 1670s it contained c. 31 a. and no …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… opposite coasts, and the adjacent scenery; and Whitehill Cottage, and Cottlehill House, are also finely situated. The … of sand and rough gravel, to the depth of several feet. A cottage and offices were carried away; and the dry stone … bust, fine sculptured. Kinrara, a handsome mansion in the cottage style, built by the late Duchess of Gordon, and in …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… adjoining parish, established a school at Penyford, in a cottage within the limits of the parish of Abergele. There … the road side, and differs in its appearance from a neat cottage in no other respect than in having a small belfry …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… moulded and carved stones. ConditionGood. Secular a(2). Cottage, two tenements, 100 yards S.W. of the church, is of … exposed inside the building. ConditionFairly good. b(3). Cottage, on S. side of the road nearly 1 m. S.W. of the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Middlesex
… Weather Vane: In toweron N. wall, of iron with pennon and acorn, removed from old tower in 1810, late 17th or early …