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Old and New London
… extent of fields. There were no houses, excepting three or four in the immediate neighbourhood of what is now called … and Queries, the conclusion arrived at leaving little or no doubt as to the legality of her union with the young … of Lower Regent Street and Waterloo Place. At the upper or northern end of Lower Regent Street a junction is formed …
Survey of London
… been part of a famous pleasure ground, known as Cuper's (or Cupid's) Garden. The site was originally part of Lambeth … then described as three acres used as a great garden nowe or late in the tenure of Richard Love. In 1634 Augustine … who was employed in his household, and either Abraham or his son opened it as a public pleasure garden. a In 1680 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… a number of projections. A small part of its S.W. boundary follows the A5, Watling Street, but further N. the parish … remains (unlocated but perhaps SP 578695, 580695 or 585697; Fig. 99), lie somewhere in the extreme W. of the … associated with a number of indeterminate banks or scarps and surrounded by ridge-and-furrow. d(3) Deserted …
A History of the County of Hertford
… capitals and bases, the date being c. 1230, and coeval or nearly so with the south arcade of the nave. The upper … pillars may have been clustered like the east respond or octagonal like that at the west, and fragments of such … registers begin in 1539, and the oldest books are as follows:Book i to 1557, ii to 1666, iii to 1702included in …
A History of the County of Hertford
… Colne. The whole parish lies on the chalk formation, more or less deeply covered with gravel, sand, and brick earth. It … dates from the latter part of the sixteenth century, or early in the seventeenth. Watford : The Old Vicarage It is … of Ely. Giles Fletcher, ambassador and poet, was born in or about 1549 at Watford. He went on various embassies to …
A History of the County of Hertford
… There is, however, still extant the will of Ethelgiva or Ethelgifu (9426), in which she leaves the 'land of … present earl of Essex. Capell, Earl of Essex. Gules a lion or between three crosslets fitchy or. Watford in 1605 … de Oxhey, and in 1303 was divided into three parts as follows among the various co-heirs:The abbot held an eighth …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… This place, denominated by the Saxons Weadesbury or Wodensbury, and now commonly called Wedgebury, was … a. 3 r. 11 p. Coal and ironstone are plentiful, and three or four mines are at present in operation: locks and keys, … (N.) from Aylesbury; containing 428 inhabitants. Weedon, or Weedon-Bec (St. Peter and St. Paul) WEEDON, or Weedon-Bec …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… monument of special note is the early 19th-century redoubt or gun battery (2) associated with the famous barracks of … of these fields can now be traced either on the ground or from air photographs over less than half of the parish, … plague burials. However they may have been Roman or later (Baker, Hist. of Northants., I (182230), 454). …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… post-holes and two small pits dated to the late Bronze or early Iron Age. Some post-holes were arranged in square or … walled and hedged boundary of the 18th-century park which follows the modern Geddington-Grafton Underwood road (SP … depression, 1525 m. across. The present course of the Ise follows the bed of the original early 18th-century canals …