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A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 12
… of the M50 motorway to take the village of Bromesberrow Heath from Dymock. 1 25. Bromesberrow: view from the … and rises steeply from Toney's Farm (80 m) to Howler's heath (180 m). Chase End hill (191 m) 3 in the north-east of … of Precambrian igneous rocks and Cambrian shale. Howler's heath, recorded in the early 14th century, 5 lies on Silurian …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of which about 6000 are arable; the pasture, meadow, and heath cover 4000 acres, and about 180 are wood: the soil …
The Environs of London
… name from the Saxon words Brom-leag, signifying a field or heath where broom grows; the great quantity of that plant on …
Survey of London
… fitted up as a temporary chapel. 30 By this time money was short, and although it was decided to issue another thousand … of its directors, the local landowner Robert Gunter, for a short-term loan of 5,000 needed to pay Messrs. Nowell. The … been spent, and that the capital so far subscribed fell short of expenditure already engaged for by some 2,640. …
Survey of London
… Old Brompton Roadwhich name survives today except in the short stretch east of South Kensington Station, where its … musical instrument maker, and promptly developed with a short terrace facing the main road called Brompton Grove. The … of the 1760's were almost all orthodox houses in long or short terraces. Those facing the turnpike road tended to have …
Survey of London
… fell into three separate freeholds. These consisted of the short frontage along Brompton Road from Knightsbridge Green … Reeve of Limehouse, timber merchant, thus completing a short terrace known until 1864 as Brompton Place (Plate 4a). … Limited. 31 Further changes occurred along this short stretch of Brompton Road between 1885 and 1910. The …
Survey of London
… by on the Cadogan estate, and he had his office in the short southern section of Hans Road beyond North Street. 96 … to be rehoused on the new premises; but a restaurant and a short-lived roof garden (the Rock Tea Gardens') here were … with two individual houses, Nos. 34 and 35, Hanking a short exit road (known until 1881 as Vincent Street) leading …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… architectural relics in the pointed style. Within a short distance is the source of the river Loughor, which …
Survey of London
… near Grosvenor Square for Families who spend but a short time in London, and the very respectable persons that …