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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… This place is situated at the confluence of the Seven and Dove rivers with the Rye, and comprises by computation 1080 acres of fertile land. The … on the road from Spilsby to Burgh and Skegness: by a drainage navigation which approaches within three miles, corn …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Brewham BREWHAM Brewham in 1839 [Brewham Lodge, Eastrip and Four Towers in 1885] The parish of Brewham, comprising the tithings, manors, and villages of North and South Brewham, 1 the farmstead of … 76 evidence of the improvement brought about by recent drainage. By contrast, in 1879 Cook's farm was described as …
A History of the County of Somerset
… triangular in shape, measuring 2.5 km. from north to south and 2 km. from east to west at its widest point. Its eastern … ridge which in part forms the boundary between Somerset and Wiltshire around the 240-m. (787ft.) contour. From the … 1800. 13 By 1847 it was producing bricks, roofing tiles, drainage pipes, and chimney bricks. 14 It may still have been …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Bridgwater BRIDGWATER Bridgwater and adjoining parishes c.1840 The borough and port of Bridgwater lies in an irregularly shaped parish … in part a causeway named Park or Port Wall, created by a drainage scheme before the late 18th century. A small stretch …
A History of the County of Somerset
… lords of Bridgwater held a court with view of frankpledge and received perquisites both from the borough and from … appointed each summer, and much of the business concerned drainage in the fields around the town and Castle Ditch. 76 … in rotation. Most of the business of the court concerned drainage, building maintenance, and the control of strays, …
History Theses 1901-1970
… Doris M. Gill. London M.A. 1919. Members of parliament and elections in Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Staffordshire between 1660 and 1714. Pamela W.U. Ward. … Edith Malley. Manchester M.A. 1929. The geography of the drainage areas of the Cynon and Clydach rivers on the eve of …
History Theses 1901-1970
… pattern of rural settlement in northern Essex between 1650 and 1850. Susan E. Cunningham. Manchester M.A. 1968. Regional … F.I. Straw. Nottingham M.A. 1967. Bromley, Beckenham and Penge, Kent, since 1750: a comparative study of the … to 1850. Elizabeth D.R. Burrell. London M.Sc. 1960. The drainage of the Fens and its effects upon the parishes of the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… formerly separate settlements of Broadwater, Offington, and Worthing. After the late 18th century it was increasingly dominated, and finally engulfed, by the growth of Worthing. The area of … flat-topped mound in 1977, and north-west of those drainage and reclamation of the low-lying land continued, …
Broadwell Parish: Broadwell
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… 5 miles (8 km) south of the former market town of Burford, and 7 miles (12 km) south-west of Witney. The parish's name … by 1939, although in 2011 many houses still lacked mains drainage. 8 Bradwell Grove and Other Outlying Sites Until … such as obstruction of roads, failure to repair stocks or drainage ditches, and unringed pigs. The views may have …
Broadwell Parish: Kelmscott
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… known for its association with the designer, writer, and socialist William Morris (d. 1896), Kelmscott 6 remains a … were mentioned in the 16th century, 3 and extensive new drainage channels were thought necessary at inclosure, … there was still no mains water in the 1960s, and no mains sewerage in the late 1980s. 15 During the Second World War a …