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A History of the County of Middlesex
… from an AngloSaxon personal name. 20 The area was once marshland and forest which, as Bishopswood, lingered in the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… before the 17th century, with meadow to the south-east and marshland to the south. 43 In the north-west corner of the … Green, the name of which itself suggests a common. The marshland in the south end of the parish had been drained by …
Survey of London
… Dock, a very large wet dock which was built in 178990 on marshland already owned by Perry to the east of the old yard. …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… right, to fish, to cut reed in any part of the town, and fen lying against Whitton, and sealed with the Holy Lamb. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Thomas Skeeles, in 1703, devised about 62 acres of fen land, now let for 32 per annum, for the endowment of a …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… about 1814. These discoveries may indicate the site of a fen-village of the Romano - British period. [Reliquary XX …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of New Bolingbroke have lately risen up on lands in the fen belonging to Bolingbroke; a curate has been appointed by …
A New History of London
… manor named Finsbury, or Fensbury, from the neighbouring fen or moor, now called Moorfields: a manor of considerable …