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The Environs of London
… oak. The hedge-rows still abound with that tree. Situation and boundaries. The village of Acton lies in the liberty of Finsbury and Wenlakesbarne: it is situated upon the Uxbridge road, at the distance of five miles from Tyburn turnpike. The parish is bounded by that of Ealing on the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the south-facing slopes below Ragleth Hill across Ape Dale and rising up again to the crest of Wenlock Edge, which makes … of the parish. The parish has always been entirely rural and, despite the proximity of the county's main north-south … 12 in 1808-9 Welsh navvies built new roads from the Ludlow turnpike up Castle Hill to Acton Scott village and thence …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Avenue was built in the 1920s. Pavage was granted in 1358 and 1363 to men from Acton and Uxbridge to repair the highway in their parishes and as … the hill. 13 The highway was turnpiked by the Uxbridge turnpike trust in the early 18th century, 14 with a tollgate …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Acton Social and cultural activities SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES. There were inns from an early date, … Horse and Groom in East Acton and the King's Arms by the turnpike gate near East field. By 1801 the number had dropped …
Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Dean & Chapter of Wells
… Acts and accounts 158091 15801581. 1580, Sept. 30.Election of officers : Auditors: Philip Bisse and Sampson Newton. Master of the fabric: Philip Bisse. … proper to them and to none others. 1590, June 26.Thomas Walsall, B.A., installed by proxy in the prebend of Combe …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… Addenda and corrigenda to volume 5 APPENDIX. ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS TO VOLUME V. WROTHAM. PAGE 8. LINE 8. Dele … lately run, but since the improvements made by the new Turnpike Act, it is made to run further north by a shorter …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… Addenda and corrigenda to volume 8 ADDITIONS, &c. TO VOLUME VIII. … of Street. See the description of it below, p. 315, and the reasons for it. Smeeth. PAGE 2, line 23. Smeeth is … is very healthy, and the soil fertile, excepting near the turnpike road, where it is sand or gravel, and a part of …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… Addenda to volume 12 Minutes of the Records and Accounts of the Chamber Minutes of the Records and Accounts of the Chamber [1234-1448] MINUTES, collected by … repairing and widening the road from therice to the Dover turnpike road, in the parish of Barham, in Kent. A large and …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, Addenda
… [Sir Wm. Cecil]. I herewith send you a note of the lands and goods of the rebels which have yet come to my knowledge, … what has gone by warrants of the Lord Lieutenant, Marshal, and Provost Marshal; many took what they would without … fear of the Southern Army, who ever called them traitors and rebels, that they allowed them to take their goods, never …
Journal of the House of Lords
… Consuls in Europe to furnish Information as to the Price and Consumption of Tea, and the Duties on that Article, within their respective … have been received from His Majesty's Consuls General and Consuls at the Places noted at the Foot of this Letter. I …