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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… have been less need to import foreign sugar products, and the English term 'sugar candy' became more common … coming from the region of Alicante, hence Alicant SOAP and ALICANT RAISINS. OED earliest date of use: c1500 Simone … for a saline substance obtained by separating the soluble and useful component from the insoluble solids in the …
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 its medicinal waters, 1 is a small parish and village 3.5 km. (2 miles) west of Castle Cary between the …
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 … boundary with Sheen is formed by a tributary of the Dove, and the southern boundary with Ilam follows another tributary …
A History of the County of Stafford
… was formerly a township in Alstonefield parish and later a civil parish 5,383 a. (2,178 ha.) in area, … river Dove. 42 It is mostly pasture with scattered farms, and there are three hamlets, Fawfieldhead in the north, … son Samuel was the first secretary of the Manifold Valley Dairies Association Ltd., which in 1912 had a cheese factory …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Heathylee was formerly a township in Alstonefield parish and later a civil parish 5,535 a. (2,240 ha.) in area. 64 It … is mostly pasture, with scattered farms in river valleys and with no village centre. The western boundary with … Back brook, which flows south to join the river Churnet, and two arms of Black brook which flow north and west to join …
A History of the County of Stafford
… was formerly a township in Alstonefield parish and later a civil parish 1,842 a. (745 ha.) in area. 80 A village with a chapel and a school but no inn or shop lies in a secluded valley in … which is also the county boundary with Derbyshire, and tributaries of the Dove and the river Manifold form the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… county, the river Dane forming the boundary with Cheshire and the river Dove that with Derbyshire. 1 It consisted of … Heathylee, Hollinsclough, Longnor, Quarnford, and Warslow and Elkstones. With an area of 23,249 a. (9,409 ha.), 2 it …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Longnor was formerly a township in Alstonefield parish and later a civil parish 813 a. (329 ha.) in area. 65 Longnor … stands on a saddle in the ridge which dominates the area and gives the township its Old English name langen ofer, long … was in Derbyshire. 67 The old course of the river Manifold and a tributary brook formed the south-western boundary with …
A History of the County of Stafford
… QUARNFORD was formerly a township in Alstonefield parish and later a civil parish 3,141 a. (1,271 ha.) in area. 74 It is mostly pasture, and occupies the north-east corner of Staffordshire, marching with Cheshire and Derbyshire. The river Dane forms the boundary with …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Alstonefield Warslow and Elkstones WARSLOW AND ELKSTONES WARSLOW AND ELKSTONES 1994 Warslow, Lower Elkstone, and Upper …