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City of London Livery Companies Commission. Report
… in roadmaking, irrigation, the construction of river and canal banks, the supply of building and other materials, … heads since 1820: For roads, irrigation, river, and canal banks about 28,558 " building materials supplied, …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 7
This volume contains the histories of the 22 parishes in the hundreds of Brightwells Barrow and Rapsgate, extending from the Cotswold escarpment above Gloucester to the Thames at Lechlade and including much of the Churn, Coln, and Leach valleys.
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 8, the Poldens and the Levels
Somerset's Polden hills divide the county's central marshlands, Sedgemoor to the south and the Brue Valley to the north.
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 6, Andersfield, Cannington, and North Petherton Hundreds (Bridgwater and Neighbouring Parishes)
Andersfield, Cannington, and North Petherton hundreds together occupy the Lower Parrett valley stretching from the Quantock ridge in the west to King's Sedgemoor in the east, and from the Bristol Channel in the north to the river Tone in the south.
Three fifteenth-century chronicles
… John Peche, Maire William Holbeche A xxxvij e. Jamys of Tame This yere was a grete wynde on Seint Mawres daye. …
Three fifteenth-century chronicles
… frutes fayled; and all maner of bestis, bothe wilde and tame, both foules and fysshes, dyed in all maner partes of …
A History of the County of Somerset
… on Charlton Horethorne and Stowell is divided by a valley or combe running east to west now occupied by a stream … Temple Combe or Combe Templar 15 were so named from the valley which divided them and from their respective medieval …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… right of the road leading from Worcester to Ludlow, in a valley surrounded by hills whose summits afford delightful … and is intersected by the Andover and Salisbury road; a canal from Andover to Southampton passes within a mile. The … before it sustained any damage. The town, situated in a valley surrounded by lofty hills, near the sea-shore, …
A History of the County of Essex
… All the Rodings are situated on Boulder Clay in the valley of the River Roding, which takes its name from them. …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… a scale. It occupied a secluded situation in a romantic valley, deeply embosomed among lofty hills and abrupt … by the river Clydach, which passes along a deep valley to its confluence with the Usk, and in its course … now converted to manufacturing purposes. The Brecknock canal is carried over this river by means of an embanked …