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A History of the County of Somerset
… Blue Boar 22 which closed between 1931 and 1939. 23 Worthy's Royal hotel, later the Royal Wessex hotel, opened in the … inn was recorded as a beerhouse in 1861 26 and a baker's shop had a beerhouse attached, probably at Abbas Combe, … by 1901. 29 By 1924 there was a reading room and young men's institute which appears to have closed in 1948. 30 The …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… hundred of Horethorne, E. division of Somerset, 4 miles (S. by W.) from Wincanton, on the road to Blandford; … are quarried. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 9. 9. 4., and in the gift of the Rev. Thomas Fox: … seen. Coal of good quality is wrought, and there are large quarries of excellent stone for building, and of stone for …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… to the grange of the monastery, in revenge for the friar's treachery, and was proceeding to burn the abbey itself, … the north-east by Llanano, and on the west by St. Harmon's. It is intersected by the road from Kington to Aberystwith. … within two miles of Machynlleth. There are extensive slate-quarries in the neighbourhood, and mines of lead and copper, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… portions shown in solid black.) 1 ABBEY DORE (B.c.) (O.S. 6 in. (a)XXXVIII, S.E., (b)XXXVIII, S.W., (c)XLIV, N.E., (d)XLIV, N.W., … and the evangelistic symbols of St. Mark and St. Luke, quarries with a pear and pomegranate-sprig, some foliage and …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… of Lesmahago, Upper ward of the county of Lanark, 6 miles (S. W.) from Lanark; containing, with Turfholm, 881 inhabitants. This village, formerly called Macute's-Green, derives its present name from its vicinity to the … are found imbedded in the limestone; and there are some quarries of freestone in the parish, which is used for …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… shown in solid black.) 1. ABBOTS RIPTON (C.d.). (O.S. 6 in. (a)XIII S.E., (b)XIV S.W., (c)XVIII N.W.) Abbots Ripton is a parish … crowned M., fragments of tabernacle-work and borders and quarries with rose in middle, 15th-century. Monument and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… scale of 48 ft. to the inch. The change in the Commission's terms of reference when many of the blocks for the plans in … read in conjunction with the text.) 1 ABBOTSBURY (D.e.) (O.S. 6 in. (a)XLVI, S.W. (b)XLVI, S.E. (c)LII, N.E.) Abbotsbury … (Plate 16), probably the Virgin, fragments of borders and quarries with grisaille work, late 15th and early …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… The land then falls more gradually to 180 m. at the parish's western tip. Most of the parish drains south and west … which forms the parish boundary on those sides. The parish's northwestern part drains north and west towards tributaries … apparently nearby. 48 The kilns were associated with three quarries along the lower margin of Abdon common. 49 By 1807 …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… 13 One of the detached pieces contained part of Gunn's Mills built on the royal demesne of the Forest in the early … parish. The account also includes the part of Gunn's Mills within the Forest. Abenhall lies on the Old Red … ran a tannery in Mitcheldean, took a lease of the manor's part. 22 The Pyrke family's part, later included in its …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… 376 are in the village of New Aberdour, 8 miles (W. by S.) from Fraserburgh. The name of this place is supposed to … been found the fossil remains of fish. There are several quarries of granite and sandstone, and two of millstone, one … Aberdeen; the patron is A. D. Fordyce, Esq.; the minister's stipend is above 200, with a manse, built in 1822, and a …