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A History of the County of York East Riding
… Farm, both built by 1828 on ground inclosed in 1772. 22 A beacon stood on high ground close to the sea in the late 18th …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… in the village in the later 20th century. 51 There was a beacon in Barmston in the mid 16th century. It probably stood on Hamilton hill, where there was a beacon c. 1800. 52 A lifeboat station, owned by the National …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… (E. Yorks. Loc. Hist. Ser. xix), 18, 30. Pennels or Beacon close, near Hornsea Beck, was the site of a gibbet …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… in Skipsea and Ulrome in the 16th century, 31 and South beacon at Skipsea was mentioned in 1594. 32 An aerial firing …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… had much of their most used, penultimate portions, the Beacon and Duke's courses laid down c. 1665, running across …
Survey of London
… to nearer 700 (Ill. 429). St Peter's was designed as a beacon to the faith of the men and women it commemorated, and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of the county; and gypsum of excellent quality is dug on Beacon Hill, near Newark: it is much used for plastering … exposure to the air, bleaches to nearly a clear white. At Beacon Hill is obtained a blue stone for hearths, approaching … a parish, in the union of Pocklington, partly in the Holme-Beacon, and partly in the Wilton-Beacon, division of the …
The Diary of Henry Machyn
… to the Tower, as was "Theodore Basill, alias Thomas Beacon, another seditious preacher." Ibid. pp. 2 b, 3. Ibid. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… On the highest part of Orton Scar was formerly a beacon, communicating with those of Penrith, Stainmore, and …