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A History of the County of Oxford
… works connected with a Roman settlement on the Akeman Street and within the area encompassed by the dyke called … Ashbank, and Wattlebank, running from where the Akeman Street crosses the Cherwell to the northern boundary of the … seem to have a connexion with the Roman road, the Akeman Street, which enters the county from Aylesbury to the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in 1819. Angram ANGRAM, a township, in the parish of Long Marston, W. division of Ainsty wapentake, W. riding of York, …
A Dictionary of London
… disposed of for public uses, being partly laid into the street and partly occupied by the King's Weigh House (Strype, … was a hillock or artificial knob in the middle of the street opposite the church containing a socket in which the … and east of the church, with a passage south to Leadenhall Street (O. and M. 1677-Horwood, 1799). Andrew Cross Alley …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… and who were publicly executed in the principal street of the city. In 1679, Archbishop Sharpe was murdered … nearly parallel streets, of which the principal is South-street, at the western extremity of which is Argyle Port, the … the city arms, nearly obliterated by time. Beyond South-street, is Marketstreet, to the north of which is …
A Dictionary of London
… Court Angel (The) Langbourn Ward extends along Lombard Street to the sign of the Angell almost to the corner by the … 17th and 18th centuries and part of the 19th century the street extended from Long Alley to Bishopsgate Street Without, but in the middle of the 19th century it …
A Dictionary of London
… " (Strype, ed. 1720, to Boyle, 1799). Angel Court, Hart Street See New London Street. Angel Court, Minories (1).-West out of the Minories to Vine Street. (Rocque, 1746.) In Portsoken Ward. Formerly called: " …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… better demonstrates that than the fact that the Roman street grid vanished entirely. Only the cardinal streets, … a line that approximated to the Roman grid. Westgate Street diverged more than the others; in the early sub-Roman … in that area had not acquired the alignment of the later street frontage 17 and the concentration of 9th-century …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to Towcester, and from east to west of part of the Akeman Street. In early Saxon times it appears, temporarily at … At Kirtlington, where the Portway crosses the Akeman Street, a skeleton was found in 1873 and with it two fine … and Fairford. Its nearest parallel is perhaps that from Marston, Northants. The greater part of the area lying …
A History of the County of York
… the excavations preparatory to the building of Parliament Street, are both grave-covers of sandstone marked with plain … numerous. Part of a cross-shaft was found in Parliament Street at some distance from the site of any known church. 26 … feature from some church building, comes from Clifford Street. 27 Part of a 10th-century wheel-head cross said to …
A Dictionary of London
… (St.) Alley North out of St. Ann's Lane and east to Noble Street, in Aldersgate Ward Within, between St. Ann's Church … Elizabeth (Proc. in Chancery, II. 151). Now called Gresham Street (q.v.). Named after the church of St. Anne. … side of Budge Row, near its junction with Queen Victoria Street and Watling Street. In Cordwainer Ward (O.S. 1880). …