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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… 6 in. (a)XI, S.E. (b)XXI, N.E.) Yetminster is a parish and village 4 m. S.S.W. of Sherborne. The church is the … The walls are of local rubble with dressings of Ham Hill and other local stone and the roofs are lead-covered. The … the church, is modern but incorporates materials from the old building on another site. a(32) Yetminster Mill, mile …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ( St. Mary), a parish, in the hundred of Stodden, union and county of Bedford, 4 miles (E.) from Higham-Ferrers; … is a place of worship for Wesleyans. The moated site of an old baronial castle is still preserved. Yockleton YOCKLETON, … in the wars which arose between the Britons and their new allies, during the establishment of the heptarchy; and in …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… of shaped wood designed to fit across a person's back and shoulders, with a chain hanging from each end onto which a PAIL could be attached and thus carried with less strain. OED earliest date of use: … seems to have been of less importance than the unrelated OLD FUSTIC. OED earliest date of use: 1812 Found described as …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York
… area (W. of the Ouse), the Central area (between the Ouse and the Foss), and the Walmgate area (E. of the Foss). In the … from the stretch around the more westerly castle, the Old Baile. Henry III rebuilt York Castle from 1245 onwards, … perpetuated by Coney Street, Ness Gate, and Castlegate. A new crossing of the Foss existed at the Norman Conquest on …
Survey of London Monograph
… to John Water alias Yorke, herald, as fee of his office and for services to Richard III, his predecessors and ancestors, manor of Bayhall, in Pembury, Kent, and 8. 6 … 1886; bur d Langford Budville. ( Landed Gentry (1886); New England Hist. Geneal. Reg., xcv (1941), 303.) Arms: (1) …
Survey of London
… surviving relic of the great houses which in the medival and Renaissance periods bordered the Strand between the … Viscount St. Albans, and on the 22nd of that month the new Viscount celebrated his sixtieth birthday by giving a … fabric, but that he had the buttresses removed from the "old rotten decayed walls the Seelings of Roomes supported …
Survey of London
… as Richard FitzNigel or FitzNeale), Bishop of London, and author of the famous Dialogus de Scaccario, was in … (ii) in connection with the ceiling (or wainscotting) of a new hall ("aulam") and chamber and a chapel in connection … the tables in both the chambers, were set baskets with old plate, which was not esteemed but for broken plate and …
Survey of London
… York Place and George Court CHAPTER 10: YORK PLACE ( formerly Of Alley) AND GEORGE COURT York Place, a narrow court running parallel … called exchange Alley, probably from its prosimity to the New Exchange, but within the first few years of its existence …
Survey of London
… York Road CHAPTER 7 - YORK ROAD [See plates 25, 26 and 27.] The first Waterloo Bridge Act contained a clause for … across Waterloo Road to Westminster Bridge Road. The new road, which was for several years called Stamford Street, … and in 1900 an extension and complete rebuilding of the old station was begun. It was finished by the erection of a …
Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales to 1516
… 1389 11.25 412700 487900 Nafferton 1224 45 505500 459000 New Malton 1179 1295 50 478600 471700 Newton Garth 1175 …