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A Survey of London
… On the south side of Thames streete, beginning at the East ende thereof, there is first the saide Smarts Key, so … and now corruptly called Loue Lane, it runneth vp by the east end of a parish church of saint Andrew Hubbert, or Saint Andrew in East Cheape: This Church and all the whole Lane called Lucas …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… with a trench on each side, pointing in a direction from east to west, and called the "Devil's Highway." Bingfield … It occupies an eminence above five miles north-north-east from St. John Lee, and the road from Corbridge to Cowden … by computation 2985 a. 1 r. 37 p., is bounded on the east by the river Smite or Snite, and intersected by the road …
A History of the County of Sussex
… of this size. It consists of a middle main block, facing east and west, and of two stories and attics, flanked on its … with fairly long wings projecting at right angles to the east at the outer ends. Only the stump of the south range is … bow window was thrown out in the middle bay on the east front. Against the north and south sides in the angles …
A History of the County of Sussex
… with flinty gravels. The gravels in the north and north-east have been dug commercially. In the east and west the heavier clays of the Reading Beds have … stream rising in the centre of the parish flows south-east through Lake copse into the eastern tributary, and two …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… BIRBECK-FELLS, a township, partly in the parish of Orton, East ward and union, and partly in the parish of … to Ludlow. The village is a short distance north-east of that of Yarpole; and on the north-west is an … large portion of which is converted into a public park and villa grounds; and it has, together with a small part of …
Committees for Repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts:
… standing repeal committee 1790-6. DNB. Downe, William: of East Smithfield. Dowson, John: Dissenting Deputy; possibly a … Samuel (1755-93): banker and Turkey merchant; director, East India Co.; treas., Levant Co.; M.P., Ilchester 1780-4, … Clapham Sect. DNB. Thornton, Robert (1759-1826): director, East India Co., chairman 1813-14; M.P., Bridgwater 1785-90, …
A History of the County of Essex
… has Roman brick dressings and pilaster but- tresses at the east angles, may be 11th-century in origin, although the … D/ACV 9A, ff. 21v., 63, 65. Ch. Plate Essex, 181-2. East Anglian, n.s. i. 129; E.R.O., D/ACV 9A, f. 21v. Morant, …
A History of the County of Essex
… parishes. William a Birches manor lay in the south-east extremities of Birch and perhaps also in … Honfield wood were recorded. Chestwood extended into north-east Birch from Layer-de-la-Haye. 71 About 1800 there were … 72 In 1841 there was 143 a. of woodland, mostly in the east of the parish. 73 Heathland, probably former woodland, …
A History of the County of Essex
… or earlier. 50 Birch extended about three miles from east to west and was a very irregular shape with detached … and coinciding with natural features only on part of its east side where it followed Roman river. In 1610 the rector … and at Birch castle. 64 The site of a possible Roman villa was discovered in 1998 at the former gravel pit, Maldon …
A History of the County of Essex
… storeys with dormer windows behind a plain parapet. The east and west facades were each of seven bays, with the … there was a garden divided into symmetri- cal plots to the east, 44 and by 1800 outbuildings between house and church, … front had a portecochère of paired columns, the south-east front a colonnaded verandah along its length, and the …