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Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… Derbs., 169192, and he may have carved the doorcase at the foot of the stairs leading to the Parlour. He later worked at …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… Imperial and Metric Dimensions 1 metre = 3.281 feet 1 foot = 0.3048 metre Metres Feet 0.30 1 3.3 0.61 2 6.6 0.91 3 …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… The yard or VIRGA (the Latin equivalent) was 36 INCH or 3 FOOT long, though sometimes by custom for some TEXTILEs of 37 … equivalent of the rod, perch or pole and consisted of 16½ FOOT. OED earliest date of use: 1377 for the yard of t3 FOOT, 900 for the yard of 16½ FOOT Only loosely connected …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the walls, and some perished stonework was replaced at the foot of the tower and outside the Spencer chapel. In the …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… the vale of Yester, and Long Yester and Long Newton at the foot of the Lammermoor hills; the nearest market-town is …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… with a gentle ascent for three or four miles towards the foot of the moors; its lower levels are also broken by … of the East Riding, which extends from the western foot of the Wolds to the boundary of the West Riding, is … on the east they decline more gradually, each one to the foot of the next range, under which its strata dip. Next to …
Survey of London
… Gate, see p. 59. Gerbier refers to a room "not above 35 Foot square" near the York Water Gate, of which he had heard …
Survey of London
… acquired a building lease of a plot of ground with 100 foot frontage on the east side of York Road. 96 The new …