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A History of the County of York
… battle of Hatfield only James the Deacon remained to carry on the Roman tradition in the north but he has no known … north and south transepts with one, or perhaps two apses on their eastern sides, a central tower and an apse-ended … As a result, the prebendal houses decayed or were let to laymen; and the residentiaries occupied the Residence (now …
A History of the County of Sussex
… century the shingle bar was apparently driven gradually on shore, causing the common to be eroded away. Erosion had … As the bar approached the mainland it created a backwater on the beach, about which visitors to the resort complained, … By 1814 the sea had reached the mainland, where the land on which the resort stood projected into the sea and was …
A History of the County of Sussex
… of a building formerly used as a court-house survived on Worthing common south of the modern shore line in 1748. 93 … 97 At least one election was contested, pressure being put on tradesmen to vote for a particular candidate. 98 The … and a clerk of works (by 1878). 30 By 1882 there were committees for general purposes, finance, by-laws, legal …
A History of the County of Sussex
… by 1811 they had been replaced by the Steyne, 20 modelled on that at Brighton. A band played there during the 1812 … as a warehouse for many years. 35 Pony races were held on the sands in 1805, 36 and autumn races there were still … several listed in 1874 survived, including the Half Brick on the coast road east of the town, the Wheatsheaf in …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Hill and Leaton and west of Wrockwardine, and tuff, on which Wrockwardine village lies. 93 From those high … troops in 1645-6. 94 Most of the rest of the parish lies on boulder clay or sand and gravel, while some terrace gravel is associated with the river Tern and Rushmoor lies on lake clay. 95 Late 17th- Century Wrockwardine Domesday …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York
… limestone from the neighbourhood of Tadcaster and set on an earlier earth bank, encloses an area of 263 acres on both sides of the rivers Ouse and Foss, with a perimeter, … which in many places was filled with water, still remain on the N.E. and S.W. sides. Roman defences of the legionary …
Survey of London
… soap factory, 91 which stood east of Narrow Wall (i.e. on ground between Belvedere Road and York Road and adjoining north on Waterloo Road) the land was undeveloped. It was divided by … and between 1825 and 1830 practically the whole frontage on either side was let on building leases. The turnpike, …
A History of the County of Somerset
… late Mr. W. Baker, who has contributed an excellent paper on the subject to the Somerset Archological and Natural … the present account has been compiled. Day's great work on the British fishes contains but rare allusions to … depths in the Atlantic Ocean, has occasionally been found on the south-west coast of England. Baker records it from the …