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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a little further in the same direction is New Ridley, a small village surrounded by several farms. Broom-Park … 14 (S. E.) from Shrewsbury, and 144 (N. W.) from London, on the road from Worcester to Shrewsbury; containing … miles (S. E. by E.) from Appleby, and 262 (N. N. W.) from London, on the high road to Glasgow. This town occupies the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… of the Tarbatch dingle railway, from which the New Willey Co. shipped its products. 57 Boatmen remained an important … streets to the north end of the town had grown out of small strips of common that had survived between cottages … an inventive and enterprising Scottish blacksmith from London. 82 He soon closed the forge and concentrated on the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
… C. and W. Trans. N.S. xxvii, 224; xxx, 81 ff; xxxiv, 217. Small objects: Proc. Soc. Ant., iii, 222; iv, 129; N.S. iii, … Chair: In chancelwith turned front legs, shaped arms and panelled back, late 17th-century. Churchyard Cross: … wall, from top to bottom. Remains survive of three of the small angle-turrets. The Curtain-wall between the keep and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
… century. There is a garde-robe in the N.W. angle and two small chambers flanking the N. window. The third storey has, … it for a time in his journie out of Skotland and towards London until this time. Isa. Chap. 58 Verse 12. God's name be … has, on the N. face, two carved and painted shields-of-arms, (a) Clifford impaling Vipont, and (b) Clifford impaling …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… OD is covered by Boulder Clay, but to the N.E. several small streams, draining N.E., have exposed the underlying … m. high lying parallel to the existing roads and within small embanked closes. These are the remains of former houses …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… Chair: In chancelwith turned front legs and supports to arms, carved front rail below seat, back carved with … 18th-century. Rails: In chancel and also in S. aislewith small turned balusters, perhaps of same date as table. Font: … in three bays with round arches and flat pilasters with small cushion-capitals; double-chamfered base, N.W. and S.W. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… upper and lower doorways, with two-centred heads, and a small looplight, which is now blocked. In the S. wall are … South Porch is modern, but in each side wall is re-set a small 14th-century window of two lights with a pierced … destroyed, including the head of the saint, in background small figure of woman in red and white dress, face destroyed, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… This place is supposed to have received its name from a small Roman fort. In the reign of John, Theobald Walter … a school built by the Rev. Richard Gillow. There are some small charities. Broughton-cum-Kersal BROUGHTON-cum-Kersal, a … 29 miles (N.W.) from Lancaster, and 270 (N. W. by N.) from London; containing 1250 inhabitants. The town is situated on …
Broughton Poggs Parish
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… POGGS PARISH Until 20th-century boundary changes the small parish of Broughton Poggs 1 occupied a thin sliver of … In 1626 John Godfrey sold it to Arthur Mowse (d. 1644), a London fishmonger, whose grandson Richard sold it in 1661 to … Thereafter the Hall was leased to tenants, including the London businessman David Gaussen. 11 Later owners and lessees …
A Dictionary of London
… an eminent merchant ; sometime Sheriff and Alderman of London (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 13). Duke of Buckingham …