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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… The road leading from this village to Caerwent was a Roman way. The village contains a house, now a farmhouse, … are places of worship for Independents and Wesleyans. The Roman Watling-street skirts the western boundary of the … a population of 13,165. In the parish of St. Mary are the remains of the priory of St. John the Baptist, founded in the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… small streams flowing N.W. to the R. Avon. The settlement remains (7), which contribute much towards an understanding … the main monument in the parish. Prehistoric and Roman A silver coin of Hadrian was found at Crick before 1712 … 7 (1977), 29; Northants. Archaeol., 11 (1976), 183). a(3) Roman settlement (?) (SP 587725; Fig. 53), within Crick …
A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 18
… incorporates at its north end the gabled three-storeyed remains of a larger house which faced north and had … 211 pupils aged 711. 5 In 1946 the Christian Brothers, a Roman Catholic teaching order, opened a school in the Manor … Mary's, Protestant Nonconformist chapels from 1799, and a Roman Catholic place of worship from the 1930s. St Sampson's …
A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 18
… new stretch of main road built in 1975 on the line of the Roman road. 8 East of the town both the Thames and its … boundary with Eisey and Broad Blunsdon followed the Roman road. On the U-shaped south-western part of St … 9 Communications Roads The line of Ermin Street, the Roman road from London via Silchester (Hants.) and Speen …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Secession, and Relief Church, Original Seceders, and Roman Catholics. The parochial school affords a useful … of St. Andrew with his cross. There are some traces of the Roman road, which is supposed to have connected the camp at … ascertained. From the well-known fact that many Druidical remains existed in the neighbourhood, it is, however, …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… features of richness and diversity. In the hamlet are the remains of some ancient mines, now called Gogovau mines, …
Old and New London
… Milton is buried here. A sacrilegious desecration of his remains, we regret to record, took place in 1790. The object … now displaced by warehouses, stood on a bastion of the old Roman wall; and the architect had ingeniously turned it to …
A Dictionary of London
… site during excavations, in 1871-3, it would appear that a Roman villa existed on the site in early times. See Crosby … site of which the Square was erected after the Great Fire. Roman pavement found in 1836, while digging for a drain in …