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Survey of London
… moulded band surrounded the building at first-floor level and a deep moulded cornice at eaves level. The house, which … It was arranged in two sections connected by elliptical and circular vestibules. The S.E. part consisted of two rooms … embowed end walls; the N.W. part was nearly twice as long and contained a front room balancing that in the S.E. part, …
Survey of London
… Woburn Walk and Duke's Road LXXIIIWOBURN WALK AND DUKE'S ROAD (formerly Woburn Buildings) From the east … the northern is shown as Duke's Row on Cary's Map (1818) and has since been named Duke's Road. The southern part is …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… granted to the family of Clare, who gave the manor and church to Tintern Abbey, together with several granges … Wye the parish is bounded by a range of limestone hills, and towards the Severn by a rich vale of red marl; it is … the sides of a quadrangular area in the centre, which measures 127 feet by 216, and has a central gateway 13 feet …
A History of the County of Oxford
… abbey consolidated much of its demesne land in Wolvercote and St. Giles's parish into a single block of land straddling … the process: in return for land at Ailmerswell, Horestone, and Hawsland ditch in the north end of St. Giles's, Godstow … gave to St. Frideswide's its land in St. Clement's parish and at Twisdelowe (40 a. in 1545) in the north-east corner of …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the mid 16th century what woodland remained in Wombridge and Priorslee was probably coppiced; 7 in 1556 there were … 10 s. an acre. 8 Among the coppices in the later 17th and 18th century were Queenswood and Wallamoor wood in … in Britain, and c. 1925 the Snedshill works closed. Those measures, particularly the closure of the Priorslee …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… p. 284. Growth of Settlement, p. 285. Social and Cultural Activities, p. 289. Manor and Other Estates, p. 290. Economic History, p. 291. Local … boulder clay and sand and gravel overlying the Middle Coal Measures. The coal measures outcrop either side of the band: …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wombridge court baron survive from 1697, 1708, 1711, 1717, and 1747, the matters dealt with being mainly agricultural. … for sanitary affairs; highway repair; street lighting; weights and measures inspection; magistrates', police, and county court …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… of Wombridge 1808-56, resisted the nonconformists 25 and, save for the Wesleyan chapel at Ketley Bank, no … established in his parish during his time. In the 1840s and 1850s, however, Primitive Methodist, Congregational, and New Connexion Methodist chapels opened on the southern …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… to be processed to concentrate the content of potassium and to turn the raw product into POTASHES and PEARL ASH. It was less useful in its crude form, as one … such as blackthorn [Holme (2000)]; [Cox (1966, pb 1969)] and probably never confused with BOX COMB made with BOXWOOD. …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… from West Park (SO 8101) in 1850. 1 A coin of Germanicus and Romano-British pottery found in 1863 in the long barrow … S.V. Minchinhampton. (1) Roman Villa (SO 83970311), under and adjacent to a former church, now in ruins (map, p. 81, … the Great Oolite, is bounded on the E. by the river valley and on N. and S. by re-entrant gulleys; on the W. the rather …