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A History of the County of Hertford
… Lodge, by estimation one mile, and thence to Rickmansworth More Bridge, called Highe Bridge, by estimation one mile; and … condition, 58 and probably was never repaired, as nothing more is heard of it, and there is no mill at Cassio at the … earl of Essex), as he assured me, 500. No man has been more industrious in planting about his seat . . . . but the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… A customary market, on Saturday, has been established for more than a century; and there are cattle-fairs in spring and … Sunderland by a spacious and wellformed street, rather more than a mile in length, from which several uniform … of considerable burthen to pass under it, without lowering more than their top-gallant masts; the whole weight of the …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… David Ramsay, discussing the bleaching of LINEN YARN, was more definite. He wrote 'The hard Wee-ashes that are burnt of … plants that grow in or adjacent to salt water will pick up more sodium than potassium, and so give a source of ALKALI …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… This place, which appears to have been formerly of more importance than it is at present, is in old records …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… but its tactical situation makes this doubtful and a more likely explanation is that it was constructed as part of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… ware (J. Morton, Nat. Hist. of Northants., (1712), 530). More specifically, recent excavations, after the stripping of … II (1791), 344; VCH Northants., I (1902), 194). Recently more wall footings have been noted to the N. With the … century (J. Bridges, Hist. of Northants., II (1791), 344). More recently other wall footings have been noted immediately …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of the 15th century, with a spire supposed to be of much more ancient date. A school established and endowed in 1780 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… a number of Bronze Age burials (1) and (2) are recorded. More burials were discovered to the W., in what was then part … demolished and its area occupied by a courtyard. To the N. more walling apparently associated with 15th-century pottery …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… of Boulder Clay. In the W. and N. the land is higher and more broken and several small streams flow N. and W. to the … tradition asserts that an old hall stood on the site. More convincing is the fact that on the Tithe Map of 1848 … form. On the broken land in the N.W., however, a much more complex pattern occurs as the furlongs are adapted to …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… brick, except the coping stones of the parapet, and had a more gradual incline and a wider carriage-way. 5 This … was that of two years' ploughing for woad and three more for wheat, oats, and barley before the land was laid … of Welham, 17871840, described the parsonage house as 'more than sufficient for the residence of a clergyman …