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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and received the name of Watlingceaster, from the Roman highway called Watling-street, on which it stood. Sea and …
A Dictionary of London
… 4 feet without the turret of the said wall in the King's highway (Inq. temp. Ed. I. quoted Strype, ed. 1720, I. ii. …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 7
… parish from south-west to north-east was described as a highway in 1389 when it was flooded and blocked through the …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… parishes fined for attending an illegal conventicle on the highway in 1670. 24 Another Samuel Clothier was distrained …
A History of the County of Kent
… prior of Lewisham had taken without warrant in the king's highway at Greenwich; but he was pardoned this at the …
A History of the County of Norfolk
… prosecuted at the hundred court for obstructing the king's highway. 6 The taxation roll of 1291 gives the annual value …
Historical gazetteer of London before the Great Fire
… was said to have raised a pentice, encroaching on the highway. 8 In 1256-7 St. Mary Overy priory granted and … was 4 1/4 ells (12 ft. 9 in.; 3.89 m.) in length from the highway to the seld, and 1 1/4 ells 2 in. of King Henry's …