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A History of the County of Oxford
… just south of Black Bourton village, was evidently the 'causeway' mentioned in the 17th and 18th centuries, 27 and in …
Survey of London
… river. Land was available there on the east side of the Causeway leading from the Stairs to Poplar High Street (part … always speedily repaired to prevent further damage. The Causeway running from Blackwall Stairs to Poplar High Street … offer was refused as the company wished to have the whole Causeway. 18 The matter dragged on until January 1622, when …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… of water-meadow, across which the road is carried on a causeway and two other bridges respectively of two and three … made for the bridge to be thoroughly restored and for a causeway to be built across the adjacent marsh; 115 was paid … which existed before 1726, and perhaps mediaeval. The two causeway bridges resemble the main bridge except that the E. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… street is carried across the upper part of the lake by a causeway and bridge which must have assumed their present … Willow Brook, at S.W. end of the lake is approached by a causeway and consists of three round-headed arches and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and a dam (with presumably some form of waterfall) at the causeway. The upper lake continued to cause problems: in 1731 … the required rubble from the slopes west of the southern causeway and from the site of the old manor house. In 1724-5 … and some material used in completing the bridge and causeway; masonry from the site was said to have been used as …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was built in 1256, but the two main ponds, divided by a causeway and dam, 62 were on the river Glyme probably in the … one) which crossed the valley to the king's houses; 67 the causeway incorporated a bridge, sometimes called Queen's …
A History of the County of Oxford
… island in the upper lake. 78 In the 13th century the upper causeway divided the royal fishponds, 79 and the lower … which was drained in the 15th century. 80 The principal causeway was probably the lower: in the early 18th century it … cross directly from the town. 81 In the 1720s the lower causeway was rebuilt to form a dam and cascade for the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… style. A branch of the Watling-street, called the "Devil's Causeway," may be distinctly traced about a mile westward; …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… roads that converged to this point, the only vestige is a causeway leading from "the Gaer," in a line nearly at right … coins of Nero and Trajan have been found within it. A causeway may yet be traced leading from the Gaer nearly at … it yet discerned in the county, with the exception of the causeway at the Gaer above-mentioned, which is supposed to …
A New History of London
… but, upon full examination, it appeared to be a Roman causeway of rough stone, close and well rammed with Roman … bottom, for a foundation, and all firmly cemented. This causeway was four feet thick, under it lay the natural clay, … to lay the foundation of the tower upon this Roman causeway, as most proper to bear a weighty and lofty …