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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… A metal ring forming a holder for a spindle or AXLE. In a quotation dated 1733, the OED shows how it operated; 'The Spindle is kept from moving end-ways, by Wreaths, in the same Manner as the Axis of a Wheel-Barrow is'. OED …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Peter) WROCKWARDINE ( St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Wellington, Wellington division of the hundred … 931 are arable, 1118 meadow and pasture, 56 woodland and plantations, 27 water, and 30 in roads. The surface is …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… HISTORY. Wrockwardine Wood was probably identical with the woodland 1 league long and ½ league broad recorded in Domesday. 64 Referred to as the king's wood c. 1130, it was claimed in 1235 to be well stocked with oaks and underwood. 65 It was …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wrockwardine Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. In 1086 the 7½ berewicks of Wrockwardine, for which geld was paid on … op. cit. for 17thand 18th-cent. examples. H. Green, 'The Linen Ind. of Salop.' Ind. Arch. Rev. v. 114-18; S.R.O., q. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wyke - Wyvill Wyke WYKE, a tything, in the parish, union, and hundred of Axminster, Honiton and … Devon; containing 103 inhabitants. Wyke WYKE, a tything, in the parish of Worplesdon, union of Guildford, First …
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… Castle St, Bristol, cm and u (181819). Trading at no. 10 in 1818 and no. 8 in 1819. [D] Yale, Elihu, London, cm, broker and upholder … remitted because he married an Alderman's daughter and at the instance of Copston [sic] Bampfeild, Bart. [Devon and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Yaddlethorpe - Yazor Y Yaddlethorpe YADDLETHORPE, a hamlet, in the parish of Bottesford, union of Glandford-Brigg, E. … acres are arable, 536 meadow and pasture, 50 woodland and plantations, and the remainder gardens, sites for building, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
… Ancient and historical monuments in Westmorland Yanwath and Eamont Bridge 113 YANWATH and … (b)VII, N.E.) Yanwath and Eamont Bridge is a parish on the N. border of the county immediately S.W. of Penrith. … arch and label; it is fitted with a door with a form of linen-fold panelling and an elaborately traceried head. The …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Yapton YAPTON The parish of Yapton 93 lies on the coastal plain south-west of Arundel and c. 2 miles (3 km.) from the sea. In 1881 it had 1,740 a. and was irregular in shape. 94 Between 1882 and 1891 it was enlarged by the …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… yeard; y'd; yd; yarde; eard] A term with several meanings, the most important in the Dictionary Archive being a unit of linear measure that … DAMASK, DRAPERY, FILLETING, MOHAIR, SATIN, SCOTCH LINEN, TICK, VELURE See also BOOM, ELL, FOOT, INCH, NAVAL …