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A History of the County of Warwick
… The borough of Stratford-upon-Avon Commons, inclosures and mills Common Fields and … approximately between the Old Toll Gate Cottage and the Avon. 23 More appeals to the Justices of Assize produced … miller of Pershore, who was one of the proprietors of the Avon navigation and who in 1637 assigned it in turn to Thomas …
A History of the County of Warwick
… The borough of Stratford-upon-Avon Historical account History Except during the 17th … Cotswolds, and especially from the middle Severn and lower Avon valleys and the thickly planted villages between … trade was considerably enhanced by the navigation of the Avon. Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, early in the 15th …
A History of the County of Warwick
… The borough of Stratford-upon-Avon Introduction and architectural description BOROUGH OF STRATFORD-UPON-AVON 1 Acreage: Stratford-upon-Avon Borough, 6,900; 2 Old Stratford and Drayton, 2,778; …
A History of the County of Warwick
… The borough of Stratford-upon-Avon Manors Manors From the end of the 7th until the middle … He was also actively interested in the navigation of the Avon. He married Barbara daughter of Sir Edward Walker, … ii, 10711. Warw. Co. Rec. i, 204. Cf. also Stratford-on-Avon Vestry Minute Book, 161799, pp. 32, 34. Hall's …
A History of the County of Warwick
… The borough of Stratford-upon-Avon Shakespearean festivals and theatres Shakespearian … the Shakespearean Gala celebrated at Stratford-upon-Avon, in 1827. Together with some account of Garrick's … of the Second Royal Gala Festival at Stratford-upon-Avon. By a Member of the Royal Shakesperean Club (Lapworth, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… laid out in land yielding 3 9 s. 1 d. in 1828, and 1 a. in Avon Ham called the Church Land which produced 1 a year in …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Tewkesbury's commercial and industrial decline. The River Avon provided power for corn-mills, but not enough as is … as market-gardening expanded at Evesham, 39 which the Avon navigation 40 had connected with the towns and ports of … abbey mills. The Borough Mills, standing between the Old Avon and the Mill Avon towards the north end of the town, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… part the River Swilgate, the Carrant brook, and the River Avon, and part of the boundary of the Mythe and Mythe Hook … established near the confluence of the rivers Severn and Avon. Thus it was on a navigable waterway and on a … running due south through Tewkesbury is divided by the Avon and the Swilgate into three pieces, large ones north and …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… borough were defined roughly, the area bounded by the Mill Avon, the Carrant brook, the eastern boundary of the parish, … and public health. For a considerable period the River Avon served as Tewkesbury's chief water-supply and as its chief sewer. Reference to a stone-walled part of the Avon's bank in 1557 as the 'waterdrawyng' shows that water …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… the right to hold courts and fishing rights in the Avon, 40 were bought by Nathaniel Hartland. 41 Henry James … the manorial rights, including an exclusive fishery in the Avon and Mill Avon, 44 and in 1935 those rights were said to belong to the …