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Old and New London
… fell in such torrents that the Hall was filled with water, and boats were rowed into King Street from the … and eight years after "men took their horses, because the water ran over all." In 1579, after a flood, "fishes were …
Old and New London
… once remarkable for its spring of clear and never-failing water, was suddenly dried up in 1865 during the construction …
Old and New London
… Westminster Hall, situate, lying, and being between the water of the Thames on the east part, and the said park-wall … and other commodities carried either by land or by water to the staple of Westminster, in order to pay for the …
Old and New London
… This is the only society which provides free supplies of water for animals in the streets of London, and the relief … of the Association have to pay nearly 50 a year for the water consumed at a single trough. It is calculated that more … vicinity to have been divided. There was a noted piece of water, called the Duck Pond, afterwards built over by the …
Old and New London
… MohawksThe Chinese BridgeSkating on the "Ornamental Water"Improvements in the Park by George IV.The Horse Guards' … Street and Buckingham Gate, was formerly a small sheet of water, known as "Rosamond's Pond," to which reference is … with fashionable rous. The pond was made to receive the water of a small stream which trickled down from Hyde Park, …
Old and New London
… in the basement a great central tank of salt and fresh water, holding no less than 600,000 gallons. On the ground … inhabited by John Milton, the poet, accompanied by a water-colour sketch of the building, with the following …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 326 meadow and pasture, 145 woodland, and 44 in roads and water. The living is a discharged rectory, valued in the … possesses the unusual property of being empty at high water, and full when the tide is at its ebb. Weston-Turville …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… park embellished with plantations, and some fine sheets of water. At a short distance from the house, is an obelisk …
A History of the County of Somerset
… perished together with colts when the moors were under water. However, a bull and four oxen were kept and the abbey … of Wight. 1 In the winter of 1630 the commons were under water and the following spring there was poverty in the area … drainage. 2 In the 1780s the moors were said to be under water for several months a year. 3 Tithes continued to be …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… height of the bridge, from the average summer level of the water, is 99 feet, the breadth 25, and the whole length 564 … in 938, wherein he gives to the abbey of Milton "all that water within the shore of Waymouth and half the stream of … company, incorporated by another act, with excellent water, conveyed by pipes from the Boiling Rock, in the parish …
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