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A History of the County of York East Riding
… Boundaries and Communications BOUNDARIES Borough and Liberties The … from the river 79 and took steps to ensure that drainage works, bridge building, or the construction of … 1835 the cost was shared by the turnpike trustees and the drainage commissioners. 40 After disturnpiking the liability …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… The position of Bourton in the angle between the R. Dikler and the R. Windrush, mostly on gravel, on the line of the … lay over a circular Iron Age hut. Two rubbish pits and two drainage ditches yielded late 1st-century and early … pottery beneath it and 4th-century pottery above. When a drainage trench was cut in 1946 in the field S. of …
Survey of London
… Bow Street and Russell Street Area Catherine Street Catherine Street … of Brydges Street at its southern end left the intended drainage system imperfect. He was living in a house where the … effective sewer had been made to carry off southward the drainage brought down to his house from those above. This …
A History of the County of Essex
… mill has left c. 11 a. on the northern bank. The western and eastern boundaries, against Great Horkesley and Langham, chiefly follow field boundaries, although the … c. 300 a. in 1838) were liable to flood; tenants repaired drainage ditches there in the 1640s and uncontrollable …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… From it the land falls to just under 50 ft. at the N. end, drainage being by two small tributaries of the river Ouse, … of which forms the boundary on the W. side with Knapwell and Elsworth. The village, a not inconsiderable one at Domesday, is now small and scattered. A street some m. in length formerly ran from a …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… extensive hundred took its name, 1 lies within the manor and parish of Ercall Magna where the road from High Ercall to … saliferous formations in the Keuper, has blocked natural drainage, sometimes over considerable areas like the Weald … 85 Between the 16th and the 19th centuries artificial drainage reclaimed the Weald Moors. 86 Around Whixall Moss …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Bramber BRAMBER Steyning, Bramber, And Botolphs c.1960 The former borough of Bramber, 59 with … for the sections concerning church history after 1526 and education, in which the histories of Bramber and Botolphs … the 20th century. 69 Improvement of the river banks and of drainage in the late 1950s made possible the conversion of …
A History of the County of Stafford
… actually being worked, of which 11/2 were on the demesne and 3 were worked by 5 villani and 3 bordars. There was 24 a. of meadow, and woodland … poor of Burton and Burton Extra townships. 14 Modern Farms Drainage undertaken in the early 19th century much improved …
A History of the County of Somerset
… corner is marked by a possible prehistoric earthwork 2 and part of the common boundary with Yarlington south of the village is marked by a bank and double ditch. 3 In 1839 the parish measured 1,094 a. 4 In … for the meadow was good and pasture could be improved by drainage. 14 In 1801 crops on a total of just over 100 a. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… SP 56 SW, d SP 56 SE) The parish is roughly lozenge-shaped and occupies 1260 hectares of land immediately N.W. of … been 'destroyed some ages since'. Sometime before 1828, drainage work on the site resulted in the discovery of … them until recent years. They may be connected with the drainage work recorded in 1828 (M. W. Beresford, The Lost …