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Old and New London
… wore it was Baddeley, who gave the annual "cake" to the green-room of Drury Lane. He was, we believe, the original … in his red waistcoat, used to be seen in poor old "Paddy" Green's collection at "Evans's." At this period dramatic … find her performing the part of the Indian huntress in The Green Bushes with all the vigour and pathos and much of the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… two. In the middle ages Dry Drayton was sometimes known as Wood Drayton (Reaney, 'Place-names of Cambs.', 152). Cole …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… plantations, totaling 58 a. in 1905, 65 including Carlisle wood (31 a.), 66 established by 1900 on the south-east … 1970s along the road south from the old Rectory. By then a green, incorporating part of the former manorial closes, had … inward from a perimeter road and surrounding a central green, which in 1982 covered 11 a., 19 with an adjacent …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… arable acres is 5381, in pasture 2962, and 310 are under wood; grain is produced to a considerable extent, and greatly predominates in amount over the green crops, the annual value of the former being four times … during the crusades; an ancient drinking-cup of hard dark wood, supported on four silver feet, and striped with ribs of …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… types of Dutch cheese such as Leyden, Gouda, Edam and green sheep cheese from the island of Texel. Britain imported …
A History of the County of Oxford
… pigments have corrupted respectively to yellow/gold and green. e.g. for Sydenham, padlocks; for Holand, silver …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Park, Middle field parallel to it on the south-east, and Wood field ranged along the north side of Cokethorpe Park; in the southwest, between Boys Wood and Barley Park, was Claywell field. 77 The medieval … Cokethorpe as well as Ducklington, and of members of the Green family of Ducklington blacksmiths. 5 Thomas Saunders of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and attached teachers' house overlooking Ducklington green were built in 1857- 8 on a site given by the … was 159. New school buildings on the opposite side of the green, opened in 1962, were extended in the 1970s. In 1994 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… The last was probably on the south-western edge of Home wood, where a notably straight perimeter ditch respects a … to have continued along the south-western edge of Home wood and the southern edge of Boys wood. The 'old rode' of … from the main village, was later sometimes called the green and in 1995 included a childrens' recreation area. 99 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… executor in the sale of at least part of it, Moulden's wood. 87 They may have disposed of most of the manorial … the Townsends of Cote; 28 by 1847 it was farmed by James Wood- bridge, who had married a Townsend, and it remained in … held by the lords of Yelford; 18 the Long Train, a wood at the west end of the Lawns, was probably planted to …