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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the road leading to Coventry is an extensive establishment for staining, colouring, and marbling paper, in which the … Commissioners. In the hamlet are twelve almshouses for aged persons, built by Mr. Dowell, whose widow appoints … situated on the road to Colchester; and the Chelmer navigation bounds the parish on the south. The living is a …
Survey of London
… surface levels and the geology of the district to account for the deviation. The material lay to hand in the Council's sewer records, 5 for, when the systematic drainage of the area was carried out … to the east of it. There is documentary evidence for the existence up to the beginning of the 19th century of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… plundered the booths of the rich merchandise exposed for sale at the fair, and burnt such goods as they were not … reign of Edward II., however, it was made a staple port for wool, leather, tin, lead, and other commodities, which … an accumulation of silt in the river, which impeded its navigation, had begun to decline about the middle of the last …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… was probably in hand in 1194-5, when it yielded corn for sale, 44 and presumably remained so when divided after … granting some customary full and half yardlands at rent for life terms, 53 as was Anglesey by 1370. 54 Some tenants … through renting out 140-300 a. of its demesne to villagers for terms of up to 20 years. 56 By 1450 the leased land …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… with the right to a gallows and tumbrel. 71 Rolls for their courts leet held at Bottisham survive for 1320-72, 72 1386-98, 73 1425-30, 74 for some years … Elizabeth Jenyns had left £50 to buy for the parish a fire engine, 12 kept in the church by 1819. 13 Donkey-drawn and …
A History of the County of Essex
… years. 3 The inhabitants of all four hamlets were assessed for subsidy with Colchester from 1296 if not earlier, but … the improvement commissioners in 1892 25 the Harbour and Navigation committee of the council resolved that they should … and Greenstead. 30 Different boundaries were set out for the wards ordained for maintaining a workhouse in 1613, …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… the rest to the college of Beverley; 6 it was presumably for that reason besides its proximity to the town that … 55 gave the town a vital link with the Humber and the sea. Navigation was evidently improved after 1269, when the … dressing the beck which included the construction of an 'engine boat' like those used in Holland and the making of …
Survey of London
… small plots to builders and other developers, usually for terms of about sixty years even though his own lease was for ninety-nine years. 4 The sublesses erected coach-houses, … the neighbourhood led to the prosecution of a house-owner for allowing part of his premises to be dangerous to the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… within the last few years. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans. Bourton, with Easton BOURTON, with Easton, a … of Christ-Church, Oxford: the tithes have been commuted for 95. The church is in the early English style: in the … of the Rector of Nailsea: the tithes have been commuted for 95. The church is a small edifice, chiefly in the Norman …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… at a much later period, the forest here was distinguished for archery; and hence the name of Bow-land. The township, … about forty years ago. The tithes have been commuted for 180. Bowland-Forest, Lower division BOWLAND-FOREST, Lower … abounds with coal and iron-ore, which have been wrought for more than half a century by the Bowling Iron Company, …