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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ( St. Peter and St. Paul), a parish, and formerly a market-town, in the union of Maidstone, hundred of Twyford, lathe of … of quadrangular form, about a mile long, and half a mile broad, and consists of four good streets parallel with each … of water in the kingdom, six miles in length, and three broad, and abounding with fish. The barracks of Norman-Cross, …
Alumni Oxonienses
… and Barristers. Yonge, Philip s. Philip, of Warwick (town), gent. Wadham Coll., matric. 27 May, 1669, aged 18; …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Yapton village on three sides in the Middle Ages: East Town field north of Ford Lane, 1 the Cinders east of Bilsham … location of which is not clear. Common meadow called East Town mead or meads 17 presumably lay in the north-east, and …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… (1733)], it required more than one weaver to operate a broad loom, so that TEXTILES defined as yard-wide or yard-broad were relatively unusual. Other inventions, such as the … a gown was being described. An earlier equivalent is 'yard broad', which is first noted by the OED in the seventeenth …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… on the N.W., S.W. and part of the N.E. and S.E. sides by a broad ditch which was at least 10 m. wide. The E. corner had … double reversed-S curve to the ridges (e.g. at SP 767451). Broad access-ways and unploughed 'greens' are also visible …
A History of the County of Oxford
… road. A dispute between the narrowgauge O.W.W.R. and the broad-gauge G.W.R. gave Yarnton prominence in 1854 when a …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… of Yarrow, county of Selkirk, 5 miles (W. by N.) from the town of Selkirk; containing 46 inhabitants. This village, … of the male population are engaged. The nearest market-town is Lerwick, the capital of Shetland, distant, due south … and on the south by that of Lunnafrith, about four miles broad. There are 37,000 acres, of which 4000 are enclosed, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… The village could be reached from the north by a road from Broad Hinton called Corten Lane in 1728 and later, Yatesbury … at the junction of the Street and Back Lane was called Town's End. 47 It is probable that in the earlier Middle Ages … were demolished; in 1885 there were only two cottages at Town's End and two at Little London, in 1922 none at Town's …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… John the Baptist) YEOVIL ( St. John the Baptist), a market-town and parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of … a small stream, turning three mills, that bounds the town on the south. The place was anciently called the town, borough, lordship, and hundred of Yeovil, including a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… pond. In 1876 the pond was sharply rectangular, the ditch broad and straight-edged, and a narrow ditch ran north from …