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Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… Bitton BITTON (29 miles S.W. of Cirencester) Romano-British occupation has been … 267. TBGAS, XXIII (1900), 60. Finds in Bristol City Museum include four tesserae found in 1843. H. M. Scarth, … 4th-century coins from the parish are in Gloucester City Museum. TBGAS, 77 (1953), 458. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of Marlborough, whose successors also rented Christ Church's estate, and thus became effective lords of the whole … held of William FitzOsbern, earl of Hereford. 3 FitzOsbern's right was not mentioned later, and the overlordship … plaster and joinery details, recalls the University Museum in Oxford, where Bramwell was clerk of works. 89 In …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… hundred of Coleridge, Stanborough and Coleridge, and S. divisions of Devon, 5 miles (W. by N.) from Dartmouth; … The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at 15. 8. 9.; net income, 122; patron, Sir H. P. … which were presented by his lordship to the British Museum.See Lewisham. Blackland (St. Peter) BLACKLAND ( St. …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Chaigley 2,015. A detached part of Aighton called Lennox's Farm was in 1883 transferred to Dutton, within which … as narrated below. To the ancient 'fifteenth' 38 s. was contributed, when the hundred in all paid 37 1 s. 7 … buildings, the room which is used as a picture gallery and museum being lit only from the quadrangle and the west end. …
Old and New London
… EscapesQueen Elizabeth at Lord Herbert's MarriageOld Blackfriars BridgeJohnson and MylneLaying of … Phillips and his WorksPainters in BlackfriarsThe King's Printing Office Printing House SquareThe Times and its … he deposited exact models of his system in the British Museum. He was afterwards made surveyor of St. Paul's …
Survey of London
… traffic in 1769. It was made free of toll in 1785. Mylne's bridge lasted just over 100 years. Its decay was hastened … be made where it crossed the turnpike road in Saint George's Fields, and a toll-gate was to be set up there. The road … sign (Plate 86) was sold in 1931 and is now in the Cuming Museum. The Surrey Chapel, later The Ring Surrey Chapel was …
Old and New London
… BoyhoodThe Temperance HallThe South London Working Men's CollegeThe South London Tramway CompanyThe Mission College of St. AlphegeNelson SquareThe "Dog's Head in the Pot"Surrey ChapelThe Rev. Rowland … of Blackfriars Road, is the building once occupied by the museum collected by Sir Ashton Lever, and removed hither from …
Old and New London
… an ancient hall the gallant squires of Kent." Macaulay's Ballad of " The Armada." Situation and Description of … of Numerous TumuliEncampment of the Danish ArmyWat Tyler's RebellionReception of Richard II. at BlackheathThe Emperor … by Blackheath Hill, urns (some of which are in the British Museum) and other Roman remains have been found." Near the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Blandford Forum 5 BLANDFORD FORUM (8806) (O.S. 6 ins. ST. 80 NE) Blandford Forum, the largest town … stands in a curve of the R. Stour which bounds it to S. and W. The land varies in altitude between 100 ft. and 200 … another S. window. Drawings of 1791 and 1859 (Dorchester Museum, Shipp Album I) show that the N. and S. walls were …
A History of the County of Oxford
… palace. 48 From the first, in accordance with the queen's wishes, the house was called Blenheim. The foundation stone … bound vol. and parcel in wooden chest in estate office; Soane Mus. 1. 59, 63, the former reproduced in Green, … statues are confused. Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. a 37*, f. 16; Soane Mus. AL 24, f. 59; J. Harris, Cat. Brit. Archit. …