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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… may have been a sunken road. Immediately W. a block of broad rig runs up to a headland about 8 ft. wide. Whatever …
A History of the County of Oxford
… plot shapes 6 indicate the town's early development. The broad Park Street, extending from the park gate and widening … in 1250. 20 Later in the Middle Ages a cross stood at its broad north end. 21 A probable area of expansion after 1279 … modern times. A former chantry property rebuilt on its broad medieval plot in 1569 seems to have occupied the whole …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Shaw, Tour, 1788, 80; Mavor, New Guide (1803), 132. John Marston, Metamorphosis of Pigmalions Image and Certaine …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to appear at the borough's general sessions: a man from Broad Campden (Glos.) involved in an affray at Woodstock fair …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of the hill are formed into terraces, about twenty feet broad, in three successive tiers, which, when they were …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… from the night stair to the Dorter, was supported on a broad arch of which the springing can be seen against the N. … Abbey is a rectangle of 2 acres bounded by a bank and a broad ditch crossed by a causeway on the W. In the centre a …
A Dictionary of London
… See Morley's Court. Wormwood Street East from 42 Old Broad Street at London Wall to No.103 Bishopsgate at Camomile Street (P.O. Directory). In Broad Street Ward and Bishopsgate Ward. First mention: O. and …
A History of the County of Somerset
… 10 The southern part lies between 19 m. (62 ft.) on a broad band of Lower Lias clay and limestone and 61 m. (200 … grazing land is evident from orders in the manor courts. Broad Drove, beside the causeway north of the village, was … were inclosed, together with 16 a. of common grassland in Broad Drove. 3 Farming changed little immediately and c. 1811 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Thames, which is here nearly three-quarters of a mile broad, and of sufficient depth, at the lowest state of the … arsenal is bounded on the south-east by a canal, 35 feet broad, on the banks of which are wooden buildings for the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… supported on console-brackets; it is approached by a broad flight of steps. The South Front (Plate 181) is similar … recessed central panel with a modillioned cornice and a broad band of scrolled acanthus-foliage; the subsidiary …