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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… also a few small heaths. The mineral productions are of little importance. The chalk, forming the substratum of … Cricklade. The Great Western railway enters the county a little to the east of Stratton St. Margaret's, and running on … by Wootton-Bassett, Chippenham, and Corsham, quits it a little beyond the last-named town. At Swindon, the Cheltenham …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… so much that it was in a state of decay and amounted to little more than an unimportant suburb of New Salisbury. The …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… for the time being, they carried on their occupation. 11 Little beyond this is known of the 11th-century history of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… only one in operation in Wilton and the suburbs. There is little evidence about the kind of cloth made by the men of … described as clothiers and weavers, and may have been little more than prosperous and independent weavers. In 1700 …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… market had been long disused, and the Wednesday one was 'little better than nominal'. 16 By 1888 markets were no … 53 where most probably the abbess held her fair. In Little Marsh the abbey held Sexton's Mead and another meadow … Pig Marsh, was eventually inclosed in Wilton Park. 58 The Little Marsh was situated in the area now known as the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… were declining by the end of the 13th century, there is little evidence of this earlier industrial activity at the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… This charter, if it ever existed, would have done little more than recognize an already existing state of … of a new charter came under serious consideration. So little was recalled, however, either of the origin or of the … questions were put it was evident from the answers that little was known of Wilton's past history before the late …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… but Wilton was not finally disfranchised until 1918. 2 Little is known about the occupations of the parliamentary … Wilton until 1558. But generally there was surprisingly little direct connexion with the leading clothiers of the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… towards the N.W. and S.W. The N.W. wing is probably a little older than the other, but both are of early … N. front. c (36). Cottage, 100 yards N.E. of (35). c (37). Little Gowers Farm, house, 300 yards E. of (36) is of … pilasters on each face, and a square base. N. side c (53). Little Stonards Farm, house, opposite (52). c(54). Cottage, …
The Environs of London
… is worthy of remark, that this unfortunate monarch was so little aware of the fate preparing for him by his enemies, … with turned ballasters of freestone, within which is a little paved court leading to an arched vault neatly … with brick, conteyning on each side of the pillers a little roome well arched, serving for celleridge of botteled …