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Old and New London
… and Equestrian Philharmonic Academy"The Circus burnt down in 1805The Amphitheatre rebuilt, and under the Management of EllistonThe Manager in a FixThe Theatre burnt down in 1865, and rebuilt the same …
Old and New London
… from wild Blackheath the warlike errand went, And roused in many an ancient hall the gallant squires of Kent." … some of the neighbouring heights on the left of the heath. In past times it was planted with gibbets, on which the … a remarkable cavern, extending several hundred feet under ground, was discovered about the year 1780, in laying …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… church stands 2 km. south-east of Calne church. 2 In the 10th century or earlier the land which became the … retained by the king when most of Calstone's land, which in 1086 lay in three estates, was separated from the large … verges of Blackland street, 8 a., were inclosed in 1818 under an Act of 1813. 63 In the 1840s most of the land of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… Blackmore 7. BLACKMORE. (E.c.) (O.S. 6 in. (a)li. S.E. (b)lix. N.E.) Blackmore is a parish and … of windows remain at the present E. end; there is no room in the plan for a central tower. About the middle of the 14th … Font: Octagonal bowl, stem and plinth, both plinth and under edge of bowl hollow-chamfered, 14th or 15th-century. …
Survey of London
… period of expansion and diversity began at Blackwall, both in the types of ships constructed and in the materials used. In 1821 the first steam-vessel to be … yard was divided between R. & H. Green and Wigram & Sons Under the partnership of the Greens and the Wigrams, …
Survey of London
… Engineering closed its establishment at Blackwall Yard in 1987, it brought to an end a tradition of shipbuilding and … 350 years before with the laying-out of a shipyard here in the second decade of the seventeenth century. The original … own ships. In the 1650s it passed into private hands, and under successive owners developed into one of the largest and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… - Blandford-Forum Blackwater BLACKWATER, a large village, in the parish of Yately, hundred of Crondall, Odiham and N. … of Oxford; it was sold by the latter to Sir Christopher Hatton, and subsequently passed to the noble family of Crewe. … situated for sheltering vessels, and has been improved under an act obtained in 1817: the trade consists principally …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Robert Cundall, by will proved 1559, charged his estate in Bladon with 6 s. 8 d. a year and Thomas Godfrey, by will … poor of Bladon. 70 Both charities had been lost by 1825. In 1606 the inhabitants of Bladon held three houses, built on … rent charge was redeemed for the sum of £75. In 1970, under a new Scheme, the William Hopkins charity for servants …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock rural deanery until the mid 13th century. 55 In 1291, and probably much earlier, the parish included the … the borough of New Woodstock. 56 Despite attempts, notably in the 17th century, the early 19th, and in the 1930s to … c. 25 communicants, a number which rose to 36 in 1875. 12 Under St. John's successor, Arthur Majendie, 1876-95, Bladon …
A History of the County of Oxford
… medieval fields of Bladon township. The villein tenants in 1279 owed three ploughing services a year, presumably one … by an analysis of the amount of grain sown on the demesne in the 1240s: between 166 a. and 140 a. was sown each year, … the chief crops being oats, sown on about half the land under crop, wheat, and barley. Some of the wheat and most of …