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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… were placed under a single turnpike trust in 1760. 20 A more winding road, now called Lower Road, runs roughly … part of the parish have been less disturbed: both Church Lane and Cherry Orchard Lane, each linking the village of … in date. Most of them are fairly small houses, but two more substantial dwellings were erected about the middle of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… c. 1435. 96 From the main street another, the modern Cow Lane, probably called in the 13th century Fen street 97 and … and 1670s barely 20 of the recorded dwellings had had more than one or two hearths. 5 About 1808 the village … in a ribbon along the west side of Hay Street, where two more elaborate terraces of brick cottages were put up in 1885 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… partly to the vicar. 51 St. Vigor's with less land but more tithes became consistently worth more than All Saints vicarage. In the late 13th century they … east hall, 62 stood in a 2-a. close north of Pierce Lane. 63 About 1675 it had three hearths. 64 By the 1790s it …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… only a few acres. About 27 freeholders who owned 20 a. or more, eleven of them having over 30 a., possessed almost … with under 5 a. each had barely 160 a. altogether. Forty more had merely houses or cottages. Although the rents set on … d. per arable rood. The customary holdings were ostensibly more intact in 1279, when they comprised c. 8 full, 31 half, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… erected in 1858 on a site west of Wright's, later School, Lane, given by the squire. It was built of grey brick trimmed … opposition the two schools were amalgamated on the School Lane site, with extra buildings, in 1985. 49 The infant …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… of Colvilles. William Giffard, besides holding courts more often than the customary twice yearly interval, had … regularly assisted and wages made up from the rates, 40 or more unemployed labourers, out of 170 in all, might come upon …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… work of William Greaves, said to have made the house a 'more elegant place'. 98 He may have installed a panelled room … farmhouse, recorded in 1460, 83 stands north of Church Lane. Dating from the 14th or 15th century, it is …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… for them a brick chapel west of Wright's (later School) Lane with 200 sittings. It was enlarged in 1841 to provide … ministers resident in the village; 3 a manse on Pierce Lane was built for them in 1896. 4 In 1851 the minister … was 50. 13 In 1855 a site south of the west end of Pierce Lane was acquired for a new chapel for those Calvinistic …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… own defeat at Stamford Bridge. 1 The village lies little more than a mile south of York and a substantial area of the … the boundary on its map of 1853 but also indicated a more far-reaching boundary line 'claimed by the township of … suburban development. From Gate Fulford village Heslington Lane leads eastwards to Heslington, and in Water Fulford …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… summer residence of the bishop. This mansion, of which the more ancient portion, consisting of the outer court, was … the Dean and Canons of Windsor. The church, rebuilt on a more commodious site by Sir Marmaduke Darrell in 1630, is a …