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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 1120 acres of land, divided among several proprietors, some of whom have neat houses here: the common was inclosed … Dean of York. The chapel, an ancient structure, contains some interesting details, and a Norman font, but the building … of the manor was granted by Queen Elizabeth. There are some quarries of blue lias, which are easily wrought. The …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
… is of two and three storeys; the walls are of rubble with some ashlar-facing and the roofs are slate-covered. The house … a medival and later semi-fortified building and contains some good plaster-work. The Tower, at the S.W. angle, is of … beyond. The hall has had a ceiling inserted and also some partitions. The 15th-century roof (Plate 29) is of three …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… about 25 yds. S.W. of the supposed building platform, for some 200 yds. S.W. of the site. Arch J, LXXVIII (1921), 453; …
A History of the County of Sussex
… a scattering of buildings of the 18th century or earlier, some perhaps built on roadside waste. 34 The name North End … houses were put up there in the 20th century including some council houses, 37 and a mobile home park lay to the … Road between Yapton village and Bilsham; 38 there too some houses occupy former waste land, a terrace on the east …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… was 36 INCH or 3 FOOT long, though sometimes by custom for some TEXTILEs of 37 inches. The term appears in all sections … CAMLET and SHALLOON at COVENTRY, and FLANNEL at Salisbury. Some yarns were defined by the stage of manufacture that the … or 'put forth to work', 'WARP yarn', 'weft yarn', etc. Some of the entries in DIARIES give useful detail about the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… at 90 m. above OD. A group of indeterminate earthworks, some of which have now been destroyed, and a rectangular …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… the S. side of the outer enclosure, and is traceable for some 200 m. d(3) Enclosures and Iron Age Settlement (SP … (SP 874581), found in a sandpit at 70 m. above OD. In 1968 some late Iron Age and much 1st and 2nd-century Roman … on Boulder Clay at 106 m. above OD. Many Roman sherds, some of the 4th century, and large stones, thought to be part …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… to have been a church here of c. 1200 as evidenced by some capitals at the vicarage, the re-set S. doorway and probably the tower-arch. The Chancel was re-built at some uncertain period and the West Tower late in the 13th … at the collars. The modern roof of the porch incorporates some 13th-century timbers, two purlins (Plate 19) with …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Highgate. 39 The fittings include 18th-century fireplaces, some introduced later, and oak panelling and a staircase of … farm was almost entirely producing grain. Apart from some inclosed pasture it comprised 488 a. of arable of … moat at the manor house had been abandoned. 69 By 1489 some rents had decreased 70 but by the early 16th century …
A History of the County of Oxford
… wife of George SpencerChurchill, duke of Marlborough. Some of the wood survived and was used in 1921 to make stalls … of Cistercian monks, presumably of Rewley abbey. 13 Some glass was removed before 1856 by Thomas as not 'proper … in 1911, roughcast was removed from the walls, and some perished stonework was replaced at the foot of the tower …