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Old and New London
… course of being dug. By the side of the Euston Road, close under the front of the Midland Railway Hotel, was dug a large … crosses it at the southern extremity, but thence runs up under the western side of the station, to re-cross at its … the line crosses the Regent's Canal, and then passes under the North London Railway, which is carried above it by …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… modern period, though it is common in beech woods and under oak trees. It is responsible for most deaths in Europe … MITHRIDATE, VENICE TREACLE Found in units of LB, OZ Found under DRUGS, rated by the HUNDREDWEIGHT, POUND Sources: Acts, … Found described as Pared, ROUGH, Trimmed, Untrimmed Found under DRUGS, rated by the POUND Sources: Inventories …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… at Prees Heath. In the 1980s, however, the C.A.P. was under attack throughout Europe and, despite the apparent … 12 farmers were coming to feel that they were increasingly under pressure from the advocates of 'green', … received payments or compensation ('for profits forgone') under the 1981 Act for managing or not disrupting areas in …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… in the census of 1901 was 178,606 acres; in 1906 the area under 'all crops, including woods, fruit and gardens,' was 94,067 acres. In 1806 the area under agriculture was reckoned at 136,000 acres, and there … produce as fine a cloth as that imported. In raising lambs under cover for the butcher, ewes were obtained from Dorset. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Oxfordshire it will break more farmers than it will make. Under favourable conditions as many as three crops may … appear at first sight; for considering that the acreage under wheat in 1867 was 59, 146 acres, and in 1904 only 28, … for the ten years 18941903 we have 31 bushels. The acreage under barley in 1867 was 52,069 acres, and in 1904 had gone …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… or on the open down in the charge of shepherd and dog, under whose watchful eyes they could feed the sheep-down … usually accomplished everywhere by agreement. An entry under the year 1548 in a court book of Whaddon (near … measured, divided, and allotted by a professional surveyor under the supervision of a special committee of the tenants, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Sandlands, too, which had rarely been treated properly under tenantry, received their due. 14 In pasture districts … products of the south, and for much of the period now under review they were inseparable. The common breed of sheep … number of sheep. 71 Britton thought that there were just under half a million sheep on Salisbury Plain and the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… arable with 52 per cent. of the cultivated area under the plough in 19504. 7 An examination of changes in … in 1873. 27 More important was the increase in the area under cultivation. It is true that the maximum recorded … of the increasing acreage was the fact that the area under arable crops of all kinds reached its peak in 1875, at …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… S.) from Clitheroe; containing 1795 inhabitants. Aighton, under the name of Halghton, was granted by Ilbert de Lacy, … The tithes were commuted for land and a money payment, under an inclosure act passed in 1771. Aikton (St. Andrew) … The vicarial tithes and all moduses were commuted for land under an inclosure act in 1818. The nave of the church was …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Williams. 29 Sir John died in 1508 leaving a son Reginald under age. 30 Reginald (d. 1559) 31 was succeeded in turn by …