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London Bridge
… to the clerk of the chapel, 15d. Item to the clerk of the drawbridge [ pontis vertibil], 20d. Item in the wages of 6 …
A Survey of London
… The Tower on London Bridge at the north end of the drawbridge, (for that bridge was then readily to be drawn up, …
A History of the County of Somerset
… beyond the ditch, which gave access across the outer drawbridge to the outer bailey; an 'inner bridge facing the tower within the ditch' led to a second drawbridge and the inner bailey. 78 Two other towers stood at …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… fifteen large guns, and approached from the main land by a drawbridge; and further off the shore is a small lighthouse, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… 1872 as being then on one of the two towers flanking the drawbridge; this drawbridge, on the N. front, has now been replaced by two …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
… the W. wall of the top floor. The abutments of the former drawbridge over the moat have been found but are not now …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… remaining, and it is highly probable that it supported a drawbridge, as the house is surrounded by an ancient moat. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… a lane west from North Street over Anchor bridge, a drawbridge named after a nearby public house, to the fen …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… flanked by two massive hexagonal towers, leading by a drawbridge over the moat into an inner ward, from which was … western entrance to the last-named court was also over a drawbridge, through a splendid arched gateway, defended by …