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Survey of London
… to confirm this statement, Sir John Rennie was rather more cautious, stating merely that it 'is a very extensive … nearly ready for launching. Eastwards of this were three more building slips, one unoccupied, and the others with … to the dock, in the south-east corner of the yard, were more sawpits and another timber quay. Blackwall Yard in the …
Survey of London
… exports. Within 20 years of its foundation the company had more than ten trading bases or 'factories' in Asia, and two … and by the end of the seventeenth century profits were more modest. 1 For the first few voyages to the East Indies … location for this. 3 At that time Blackwall was little more than a few taverns serving travellers embarking and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… occasionally; and races, which have been established for more than a century, are annually held in August, near the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by the churchwardens. 83 In the 19th century the money was more often used for apprenticing than for rewarding servants. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… farms) yielding a tithe rent-charge of £100. In 1951 more land near Old Woodstock (the area south of Akeman …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a. or half a demesne of c. 300 a. The lower acreage is the more likely for a demesne of 2 ploughlands, which occupied … barley, and rye. 29 Most others who farmed a yardland or more left crops worth rather more than their cattle and sheep. Even Edward Busby (d. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Gloucester, refers to Bladon parish rather than, as seems more likely, to Oddington (Glos.), on the river Bladon or … road as far as the Bladon roundabout in Kidlington parish. More compact estates of private houses have been built on the … but rectors and curates, notably A. Majendie, made it more of a church festival. The funfair on the village green …
A History of the County of Oxford
… some evidence for rounding between 1810 and 1817, but no more than 6 men or women were paid for 'yardland time' in any …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… with 800 royal bounty. The chapel is small, not being more than thirty-two feet in length and ten in breadth, and … natural break in this chain of mountains, extending for more than twenty miles in a direction from north to south, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… death in 1591; 81 the history of the advowson 82 makes it more likely that the Hayles' estate was the other moiety of …