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Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… (28 miles S.S.W. of Cirencester) Undated 'fortifications and intrenchments' are said to have existed in the 18th … on the E. bank, in this parish, were untraceable and remain unconfirmed. 2 An unpublished sketch of unknown … from Tog Hill, in the Middleton Collection, Society of Antiquaries of London. The name used in Isaac Taylor's Map of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Celtic tongue, oak. It is intersected by the river Irt, and bounded on the south by the Mite, and on the west by the Irish Sea, near the shore of which is … Lord Muncaster. The tithes were commuted for land and a money payment in 1820. A school built in 1828, by the …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… the river Leven, near its influx into the Frith of Forth, and is neatly and regularly built, consisting of one … expelled in 756 by Egbert, king of Northumbria. Some historians identify the place, while in the hands of the … Montrose; containing 581 inhabitants. This place by some antiquaries is supposed to have derived its name from the …
Survey of London
… Duke Street CHAPTER 9: DUKE STREET Date and Description. Only three seventeenth-century houses remain in Duke Street, namely Nos. 2, 3 and 4, but of these No. 2 has retained more of its original … formerly had a brick front with gauged work to the arches and quoins. The entrance doorway has a pedimented Ionic …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Dunbar - Dundee Dunbar DUNBAR, a burgh, market-town, and parish, in the county of Haddington; containing, with the villages of East and West Barns, 4471 inhabitants, of whom 3013 are in the burgh, 11 miles (E. by N.) from Haddington, and 28 (E. by N.) from Edinburgh. This place is of remote …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… parish of Broomfield, union of Wigton, Cumberland ward, and E. division of the county of Cumberland, 3 miles (W. N. … from Bristol; containing, with the tythings of Littleton and East and West Dundry, 536 inhabitants. The parish … Csaromagus, and this conjecture has been adopted by other antiquaries; coins have been discovered at several places …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… with the late quoad sacra parishes of Fullarton and Troon, 6716 inhabitants, of whom 345 are in the village … hill near the village. Here Robert II., King of Scotland, and the first of the Stuarts, occasionally resided till his decease in 1390, and the castle was frequently the residence also of many of …
A History of the County of Durham
… 129 ft. 5 in. long internally from north to south and 34 ft. 2 in. wide, Aisled Quire of five bays, North and South Transepts, each of four bays in length, with … aisle, Central Tower, Nave of eight bays, with North and South Aisles terminating at the west with Towers …