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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Bassett village lies 12 km. SSW. of Swindon. 1 The long and narrow parish, 563 ha. (1,391 a.), lies east-west and a head stream of the river Kennet flows north-south … across the middle of it; with Winterbourne Bassett and Winterbourne Monkton it is one of three similarly-shaped …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… BERWICK-UPON-TWEED, a port, borough, market-town, parish, and county of itself, 55 miles (E. by S.) from Edinburgh, and 334 (N. by W.) from London; containing 8484 inhabitants. … from the British terms, Aber, the mouth of a river, and Wic, a town, is by Camden and other antiquaries …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… with frontages from north to south of 120 ft., 120 ft., and 450 ft. respectively. Between 1582 and 1585 one house had been built on the first plot and two houses on the second. In 1585 Henry, Lord Wentworth, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… than 10 a. each, three with 11-20 a., two with 41-50 a., and one (Treadway, with 61 a.) with more than 50 a. When the … Islington to graze on the west side of Cambridge Road. 45 Cowkeeping was not dependent on pasture land. Like … was a cowyard in Bacon Street, 53 where there were two dairies and cowhouses occupied by William Pettit in 1871. 54 …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… in 1653 the former manor house, Bishop's or Bonner's Hall, and 93 a. surrounding it between the Hackney border and Old Ford Lane, 38 to Mary, widow of Gen. or Adm. Richard … she sold the estate to Robinson, a parliamentary major and former colleague of her husband. 40 Cleveland's …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… west, where a farmhouse was apparently built between 1682 and 1703 46 slightly north of the junction with Crabtree … the Barnet charities in the centre with, in 1679, a house and outbuildings at the eastern end of Crabtree Lane at the junction with a field way (later Gibraltar Walk) and a path (later Birdcage Walk), 47 and Sickle Penfield to …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Bethnal Green The West: Shoreditch Side, Spitalfields, and the Nichol THE WEST: SHOREDITCH SIDE, SPITALFIELDS, AND THE NICHOL. Waste alongside Collier's (Crabtree) Lane had been granted out by 1518 13 and was inhabited by 1597. 14 A reference in 1603 to 'late …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… copy or on the web, whether published or in manuscript, and whether early-modern or recent. For example, 'Anon … a Man may live plentifully for Two Pence a Day, printed and sold by G. Conyers, London [British Library in 'A … Tracts', piece number 1506/520, formerly 7074.b.42 (1-4)', and 'Amlwchdata (online)' for 'Amlwchdata, copyright © Neil …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 7
… ancient parish, which included the hamlets of Arlington and Ablington and the chapelry and village of Winson, was irregular in shape with an area of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… covering about 2,850 acres lies midway between Dorchester and Weymouth on the S. side of the S. Dorset Ridgeway. The N. … Clay, except where outcrops of the harder Portland and Purbeck Beds have produced small hills, as at Chalbury, Tout and the Knoll. There have been considerable readjustments to …