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A History of the County of Oxford
… varying soils. As the county is almost fifty miles long, and contains close on 480,000 acres of land, it is not … to find that the soils vary to a very large extent, and that consequently there is no fixed rule or custom of … Special-purpose ploughs, such as the ridging plough, the digging plough, and the potato-raising plough, are also in …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… directed, in the first place, to supply their own wants, and next, to enable themselves to purchase those necessaries … virtually disappeared; the capitalist winter dairyman and the corn and sheep farmer, dependent upon cash sales and … was to advance money for drainage and the expense of digging and burning lime. The tenant was to pay only 5 per …
Old and New London
… Aldersgate Street and St Martin-le-Grand CHAPTER XXVII. ALDERSGATE STREET AND ST. MARTIN'S-LE-GRAND. Origin of the NameHistory of the … and a stone coffin containing a skeleton; and in digging somewhat lower down, Roman remains were met with in …
Old and New London
… Aldgate, the Minories and Crutched Friars CHAPTER XXX. ALDGATE, THE MINORIES, AND CRUTCHED FRIARS. The Aldgate of 1606Brave Doings at … from the reverses of two Roman coins, discovered whilst digging the new foundations for the gate. The whole structure …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… N.W. of the R. Nene at 100 ft. above OD, over a broad and generally flat interfluve some 260 ft. to 290 ft. above OD and then down the S. side of the Lyveden valley, here 200 ft. … out on these and on other sites found during gravel-digging. Another group of sites lies to the S. of the brook …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… patterns; farmsteads surrounded by closes between them, and church and manor house by the river Brue. ALFORD, formerly noted for … 13 In 1746 repairs were needed and trenching and ditch digging was in progress. 14 By 1786 amalgamations had …
Historical gazetteer of London before the Great Fire
… the parish of All Hallows Honey Lane was bounded to the W. and N. by tenements in St. Mary Magdalen Milk Street, and to the E. by 11/2. In the early 13th century 11/1 appears … total cost is not separately recorded, but work included digging and laying new foundations, and making vaults and …
Historical gazetteer of London before the Great Fire
… Cheapside northwards to the parish of St. Lawrence Jewry, and round behind the church of All Hallows. On the Cheapside … it in 1328. Further to the N. its neighbours to the W. and E. were 5 and 10, respectively. This account deals with … paid £1. 13s. 8 1/2/d. and contributed the materials for digging up and re-laying the watercourse running through the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of York; containing, with the townships of Allerthorpe and Waplington, 199 inhabitants, of whom 154 are in the … Pocklington. The general surface of the parish is flat and well wooded. It consists of 1543 a. 1 r. 33 p., of which … is a large Druidical monument called Calder Stones, in digging round which, more than sixty years ago, urns of …
A History of the County of Stafford
… It was created in 1934 from the existing civil parish and former township of Alstonefield (2,938 a.) and the adjoining detached portion (592 a.) of Fawfieldhead … around Beresford, though it had never been thought worth digging. 66 In the 1840s, however, it was stated that copper …