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Survey of London
… the early 1830s the river frontage between Blackwall Yard and the upper entrance to the East India Docks basin was … of space between the dock wall and the existing roadway of Naval Row, and the south-west corner of the dock wall had to … of the time were sufficient to override even the military arguments and the Cabinet Defence Committee reversed …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Bruton (St. Mary) BRUTON ( St. Mary), a market-town and parish, in the union of Wincanton, hundred of Bruton, E. division of Somerset, 12 miles (S. E.) from Wells, and 110 (W. by S.) from London; comprising, with the chapelry … two Fitzjames's, the Earl of Falmouth, who was killed in a naval engagement in 1665, and Dampier, the celebrated …
Survey of London
… Buckingham Street CHAPTER 8: BUCKINGHAM STREET Date and Description of the Buildings. The records show that all … when it is considered that for well over a century, and in some cases for nearly two centuries, the premises have … Earl of Oxford's removal. Torrington had held important naval commands under Charles II and James II, but was …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… Buckton and Coxall 12 BUCKTON AND COXALL (C.a.) (O.S. 6 in. (a)II, S.W., (b)II, S.E.) … There is an incorrect plan of this work in General Roy's Military Antiq's. of the Romans. ConditionFairly good. b(4). …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… The Books of Rates include different rates for black and white Budge. The SKIN was cut into two for trading, and the small piece on the top of the head traded separately … having a characteristic fuzzy surface. It was favoured for military use because it was believed to be proof against a …
Survey of London
… Buildings of the Domestic Revival and later CHAPTER XXIII - Buildings of the Domestic Revival and Later In 1899 Halsey Ricardo published an article in The … as the founder of the Allahabad Pioneer and the Civil and Military Gazette. This doubtless explains the choice of …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… BUILTH, or LLANVAIR-YN-MUALLT, a market-town and parish, the head of a union, and anciently a borough, in the hundred of Builth, county of … though a Roman road may have passed by Builth, and some military post may have been established in the neighbourhood, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… divisions of the county, Bullingdon was one of the larger and was the most central. Its origin has been discussed … were originally dictated in part by the county boundary and by natural features. The hundred reached on the east to … But as the North Oseney court was probably a court for military tenants only and the view of frankpledge for the …
The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk
… defences were very remarkable. Encircled by a broad and rapid river, which left a narrow isthmus only to defend, … towards the relief of the Dutch sailors wounded at the naval action off Camperdown in 1797,a noble tribute of … credit. Was at the capture of St. Eustatia in 1781; the naval action off the Chesapeak; and in those under Lord …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Bungay - Burgham Bungay BUNGAY, a market-town, in the union and hundred of Wangford, E. division of Suffolk, 40 miles (N. … E.) from Ipswich, 40 (N. E. by E.) from Bury St. Edmund's, and 109 (N. E. by N.) from London, on the road to Yarmouth; … and various coins, urns, fibul, domestic utensils, and military weapons, have been found in the adjoining fields. …