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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Oxford
… taken in 1444, after a gift of books by Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester; after an interval building was resumed but the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… The coastal area suffered continually from erosion by the sea 2 until effective measures of defence, including the … by the climate and the benefit which he had received from sea-bathing, he bought a farmhouse and enlarged it, as … priest to serve the chapel of Bognor, which fell into the sea, with many houses there, some eighteen or twenty years …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… had one car. and the fourth part of a church, and two mills, 32s. and ten acres of meadow: this continued the old …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of coal and 3231 tons of coke: machinery of all kinds, and mills of every description, are made. A paper-mill …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Swyft and their heirs, the manor of Bollome, and two mills in Bollome within the parish of Hayton, one called a … Francis Worteley, knight and baronet. 5 The tythes of the mills of Bolum were part of the vicarage of Clarburgh, by the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… extensive calico-printing establishments, and many cotton-mills. Among the more remarkable residences in the township … has a chapel, to which a district has been assigned, co-extensive with the township: the living is a perpetual … The town is pleasantly situated within two miles of the sea; the houses are neatly built, and the inhabitants well …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… part of the coast are worn, by the repeated action of the sea, into caverns of considerable depth, and of singular and … reign of Henry I., and was interred in the cloisters of Gloucester cathedral. His son-in-law and successor, Milo … to that of the Cilieni; the exclusive possession of all mills in the parish of Brecknock, with the absolute right of …
A New History of London
… of low water mark, he came to water and sand, mixed with sea-shells. Under that he found a hard clay, which is the … of the country. By these shells it was evident, that the sea, or current of the river, had originally extended where … of Essex might have been a great Frith, or Sinus of the sea, leaving a large plain of sand at low water, through …