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City of London Livery Companies Commission. Report
… reclamations, town parks, farming societies about 33,722 " trees, woods, and plantations about 20,632 " schools about …
A History of the County of Essex
… Roding, which takes its name from them. There are few trees or hedges in the area, which makes the landscape seem …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… pasturage for mountain sheep, and exhibiting some stunted trees, the roots of which have penetrated between the … in one part, and richly covered in the other, with trees of stately growth. At its extremity is a mountain of … Aberavon bridge and others, and a great quantity of hay, trees, &c.; and, on its subsiding, the town was left covered …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… is some fine timber, among which are numerous lofty pine-trees, fit for the masts of ships; but, from the want of …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… on the west, is a rich bay of white sand, surrounded with trees, from which the ground rises towards the west, into … parish, at a place called Skid-N'uir, or "the ridge of yew-trees," issuing from a copious spring, and flowing through … some of which are still inhabited, and are beautified with trees of the finest wood in the parish, especially the houses …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… at low water, of a large tract of hard loam, in which oak-trees have been found, in an almost entire state, but … oak and ash, which here grow most luxuriantly, with other trees displaying a variety similar to that of the soils which … are very indifferent. The lands are destitute of large trees, but are ornamented in several places with clusters of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a probable corruption of Oak Town, from the number of oak-trees growing in its vicinity, comprises by computation 1090 …