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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… coast, London, &c.; and pig-iron is manufactured in large quantities. There are also glass-works on an extensive … extensively employed by the Earl of Ellesmere, owner of large property around: in its vicinity is the … leased to Messrs. Thomas and Benjamin Chaffer, who have large depots in Manchester and Liverpool: the stone obtained …
A History of the County of York
… 15th century political events deprived the minster of a large college of chantry priests of the older type. Richard … however, appeared on the eve of the Marian reaction. A large sum was spent in re-decorating the minster and … Dallam. 18 Other acquisitions were two altar frontals, a large carpet, two richly ornamented books 'of Common Prayer …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Worth Matravers, Dorset The interior (Plate 206) has a large clustered central pier, half-pier responds in the … sites. These lie within about acre but further traces of large scarped closes to the E. cover some 3 acres. From a …
A History of the County of Sussex
… were recorded in 1587, 59 and after the 16th century a large mass of land, later known as the salt green, 60 the … as the summer one, 35 and in 1869 there were very large numbers of invalids in the town. 36 From the 1860s … the number of hotels increased, 39 Worthing acquired no large ones, as Brighton, Eastbourne, and Hastings did at the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… rivers Arun and Adur. The town is known nationally for its large number of elderly residents, and as the centre of what …
A History of the County of Sussex
… in 1899 as a 'town of hot-houses'. 41 Pioneers of large-scale glass-house production in the area were C.A. … c. 1872 and claimed to be the first in Worthing to build large glass-houses. 45 In the 1870s few followed Beer's lead, … supplied London and Brighton with early vegetables. 50 Large quantities of grapes, tomatoes, and cucumbers were …
A History of the County of Sussex
… 95 to link Park Crescent to the town, was built up with large houses, as was Westbrooke to the east of it, and the … 1884 97 with detached and semi-detached houses, many quite large; most were stuccoed, in classical style, but some … in the west, the tree-lined Farncombe Road, comprising large detached stuccoed houses on either side of a wide and …
A History of the County of Sussex
… 94 and by 1939 water was supplied to 77,000 people in a large area surrounding the borough. 95 The water undertakings …