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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… station for one officer and 12 men. The Royal Military canal commences at Cliff-End, and passes by the town parallel … and a little business is carried on in wool-combing. A canal from Woodmill, about two miles above the Itchen ferry, … clay, producing good wheat and beans. The Basingstoke canal has a wharf here; and the Winchfield and Hartley-Row …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… of the Cannell.' No dust or filth was to be swept into the canal and every alderman was weekly to view the making clean …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… pasture, 1520 arable, and 80 woodland. The Grand Junction canal, and the London and Birmingham railway, run along the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… inhabitants. The parish is intersected by the Grand Union canal, and comprises by measurement 2011 acres, about 300 of … 1500 quarters of malt are made here annually. The Cromford canal, and the Cromford and High Peak railway, commence in … 954 acres, of a light soil, with some bog. The Chester canal passes along its western boundary. A rent-charge of 70 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is 56, and their aggregate burthen 5200 tons. In 1794, a canal was cut from the river at Wisbech to the Old Nene at … the parish, which is also intersected by the Arun and Wey canal. The village is pleasantly situated on the road from … is one of the depts for the Chesterfield and Trent canal, which passes through a tunnel here 250 yards in …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… practically adjoins Wisbech. It is divided by the Wisbech Canal, formerly the Well Stream, into Elm High and Elm Low … Roads; the series of pools which is all that remain of the canal contribute largely to making Elm one of the prettiest …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 2 With these waterways may also be numbered the Wisbech Canal, now disused, which followed the course of the Well … road from Wisbech to Downham Market (A 1122) following the canal; the Wisbech-Ely road (A 1101), which leaves this at …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… exist in Stermyn Street, between Church Terrace and the canal. Five one-story cottages in Love Lane, called Castle …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… its name. The Well Stream, now represented by the Wisbech Canal, 22 formerly carried the main outfall of the Great … goods, and the narrow blocks of buildings between the canal, Norfolk Street, 27 and West Street represent the sites … a 'hard core' between the Market Place, the river and the canal, ribbon development along the Nene above the bridge in …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… form, but an ordinary almshouse was built (1815) on the canal side and endowed under this charity, each of the 5 …