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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… WORSTED'. Not found in the OED Sources: Acts. Yavonte water Judging from the context of the only example in the … this was a fashionable, eighteenth-century SCENTED WATER [Tradecards (1790s)]. Nothing is known about its …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… no visible surface features. The island is surrounded by a water-filled ditch between 17 m. and 25 m. wide on the S.W., … N.E. of the moat appears to be a former leat which carried water round the site, possibly to a mill at its S.E. end. The …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Council, 40 which resold most of the land to the Thames Water Authority. Part of Pixey mead was sold for the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a. (713 ha.). 48 An area known as Fries, lying mainly in Water Eaton, included a small part of the south-east corner … so that low-lying ground was almost always flooded and water could not be drained from the village. 56 Improvements … to the ford at its south-west corner was usually under water in winter. 66 From the west end of the village a hollow …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… as manure for the lands. Numerous springs of excellent water afford an abundant supply for domestic use. The soil is … voe, on the east, containing sufficient space and depth of water to moor a large fleet. Near this is Whalefirth voe, on … and consist of a fine valley on the banks of the Gifford water, and of which the Cambro-British Ystrad, now softened …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… chamfered orders resting on a round pier and responds with water-holding bases. Capitals are enriched with nail-head. … responds are half rounded with roll-moulded capitals and water-holding bases. The arch has two housings presumably for … piers, matching responds with roll-moulded capitals and water-holding bases: capitals on the N. have nail-head …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of stone, are in general well built. It is supplied with water from springs that rise at a short distance, and is …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in part for the two early moated sites in the village. 82 Water was obtained from shallow wells, and in a field north …
A History of the County of Oxford
… who sold Yelford in 1651. 74 South-west of the house is a water-filled moat or ditch of unknown date, its main section … dates, and there may once have been a complete circuit of water around the house. Arguments that the moat formed part …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… ditch of the moat. The channel is probably a leat for a water mill which perhaps stood in the disturbed area. Further …