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Old and New London
… he adds, "is a mixture of brick and stone, with a broad flight of steps leading up to the door, which is … of the throne likewise is of crimson velvet, trimmed with broad gold lace, and embroidered with crowns set with fine … carved, overlaid with burnished gold, and covered with broad-striped yellow satin. Several highly-polished syenite …
Old and New London
… Westminster King St, Great George St and the Broad Sanctuary CHAPTER III. WESTMINSTER.KING STREET, GREAT GEORGE STREET, AND THE BROAD SANCTUARY. "Urbs antiqua fuit." Virg., "n.," i. Ancient … THE BUXTON DRINKING FOUNTAIN. Great George Street, the broad thoroughfare leading in a direct line from Bridge …
Old and New London
… has now disappeared, and in its place has been formed the broad and open thoroughfare, Victoria Street, which was … upwards of a thousand yards in length, extending from the Broad Sanctuary to Shaftesbury Place, Pimlico; it is eighty …
Old and New London
… those chiefly concerned show their wit. The worldwith its broad daylight, its tumultuous noise, and its distracted … tree in the centre; and in the lower part of the parade broad running water, with a bridge of two arches in the … takes somewhat the shape of a boy's kite, the head or broad part of which, towards Whitehall, is bordered by some …
Old and New London
… Tothill Street, which extends to the Broadway from the Broad Sanctuary, near the west front of the Abbey, is the …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… of meadow, pasture wood half a leu. long, and as much broad. In the Consessours time this was valued at 70s. when …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… N. of the church is a ditch, U-shaped in plan with a broad external bank ('d' on plan). The E. side of the ditch … feature to the S.W. was shown on the OS plan of 1883 as a broad trench described as Old Gravel Pits ('e' on plan). … trench consisted of two conjoined rectangular ponds with a broad bank or dam on the N.W. side. These were set on a …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… (SP 786612; fiche Fig. 37), lie in the bottom of a broad open valley on river gravel and Upper Lias Clay at …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… downland in the north-west and he later laid it out with broad rides aligned on Westonbirt House. The collection of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a quadrilateral area, 170 yards long and 120 yards broad, with obtuse angles, and an entrance on each side; and …