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A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… of the former North field at Keinton Mandeville with a few houses were transferred to Barton in exchange for land in the … be built on the waste in 1617 20 and there were about 31 houses in the parish c. 1670. 21 In 1751 the parish was said … 22 but in the 1780s there were c. 220 people in c. 40 houses, many said to be neat and comfortable. 23 By 1801 the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of several streets, in which are numerous good dwelling-houses with gardens and orchards attached, and combining with … modern mansions. Newly-rising and populous villages, the houses of which are chiefly built of brick and covered with … is rendered probable by the fact, that foundations of houses have been ploughed up in the vicinity, as well as …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of several streets, containing neat and well-built houses; it is paved under an act of parliament granted in … 1720, and its suburbs consisted merely of a few scattered houses: celebrated only for the medicinal properties of its … earliest of the modern improvements is Queen's-square, the houses in which are decorated with columns and pilasters of …
A Survey of London
… Monuments on the East side thereof, amongst diuerse fayre houses for Marchants, haue ye three halles of Companies, … Michaell. Next beyond this house be placed diuerse faire houses for marchants and others, till yee came to the backe …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the Town of Stamford
… inscribed 'W.P. 1826'. Interior modernised. (107) Houses, Nos. 810, now two dwellings, two storeys, coursed … porch; Nos. 910 originally had class 15 plans. (108) Houses, Nos. 1112, two storeys, coursed rubble walls with … interest as being a survivor of the many small houses that formerly cluttered the riverside along Bath Row. …
The Environs of London
… aunt; the other consisting of near 400 acres of land, with houses, &c. was purchased by Lawrence Booth 14, then bishop … effect of increasing the number of buildings, above twenty houses having been lately erected, most of which are as yet uninhabited; including these, the number of houses in the parish is about 360. Plague years. The number …