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A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… Vaenor Isav Y Yerbeston YERBESTON, a parish, in the union and hundred of Narberth, county of Pembroke, South Wales, 4 … was passed in 1847, authorizing the construction of a railway, to be called the Swansea and Amman Junction, from … vicarial tithes; impropriators, the Dean and Chapter of Gloucester. The church, dedicated to St. Tyvodwg, is situated …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ( St. Mary), a parish, in the hundred of Stodden, union and county of Bedford, 4 miles (E.) from Higham-Ferrers; … comprises 1912 acres, of which 836 are arable, 800 meadow and pasture, 10 woodland, and 177 common, roads, and waste. … in the North riding. The York and North-Midland railway, proceeding southward, crosses the Leeds and Selby …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… of shaped wood designed to fit across a person's back and shoulders, with a chain hanging from each end onto which a PAIL could be attached and thus carried with less strain. OED earliest date of use: … was possibly synomynous with GREEN FUSTIC as found in the Gloucester Coastal Port Books. It was described in 1812 thus: …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York
… area (W. of the Ouse), the Central area (between the Ouse and the Foss), and the Walmgate area (E. of the Foss). In the following … plates by C. Smith & Sons, Deritend Bridge Works, Birmingham. The Female Prison (Pl. 16; Fig. above), of two …
Survey of London Monograph
… to John Water alias Yorke, herald, as fee of his office and for services to Richard III, his predecessors and ancestors, manor of Bayhall, in Pembury, Kent, and 8. 6 … JOHN MYNNE Mynne ? York, temp. Hen. VII Of Windrush, co. Gloucester; husband of Garter Wrythe's eldest dau. Catherine …
Survey of London
… York Road CHAPTER 7 - YORK ROAD [See plates 25, 26 and 27.] The first Waterloo Bridge Act contained a clause for … Lambeth. Except for a fringe of cottages along Narrow Wall and for Phelps' soap factory, 91 which stood east of Narrow … Part of this land was sold to the London and South Western Railway in 1848 when the line was extended from Nine Elms. …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Zaffre - Zoobditty match Zaffre Also known as saffer and saffre, this processed BLUE mineral, that is roasted … COBALT ore, or impure cobalt arsenate. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the centre of production in Europe … and one of Burgess' agents, the confectioner J. Johnson of Birmingham [Newspapers (1790)]; [Newspapers (1790)]. …
A History of the County of Somerset
… paper on the subject to the Somerset Archological and Natural History Society in 1851 ( Proceed. pp. 95110). … have since been made to the list given by Mr. Baker, and which is the source whence the present account has been … He was at the time travelling on the Somerset and Dorset railway (vide The Field, January 14, 1871). Bustards were …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Zoology Molluscs and Insects ZOOLOGY MOLLUSCS NON-MARINE Favoured in its situation and the quality of its soil, the county of Somerset yields a … Avonmouth; Bedminster nitidum, Jenyns. Pond, third railway bridge from Clevedon; River Brue at Street fontinale …