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A History of the County of Gloucester
… cabins inhabited by ironworkers, charcoal burners, and others while their operations were in progress or until … expelled by the Forest authorities. Permanent villages and hamlets did not begin to form until the mid 18th century, … as miners and quarrymen built cottages, took in land for gardens, and raised animals around the perimeter of the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… usual controls of local government, fostered individualism and disdain for authority. 93 An introspective society evolved with its own pronounced dialect and with customs and attitudes shaped by the Foresters' claims as free miners …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Survey affords conclusive evidence of the widespread and considerable character of the woods of Middlesex in the … Buck Hounds and of the Toils' to take such deer from the parks of the Earl of Essex, Mrs. Sadler, Mr. Butler, and Sir … for it included the portion taken to add to Kensington Gardens, as well as a good deal of land now built over at …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in fact it was, in the main, woodland down to the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The ancient chase of Woodstock lay … who, armed and arrayed as though for war, broke into parks, warrens, and forests of the counties of Oxford, Berks, … the lake and destroying trees, shrubs and plants in the gardens, they were gradually killed off. There is much fine …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… by E.) from Cupar; containing, with the villages of East and West Newport, and Woodhaven, 1219 inhabitants. This place is supposed to … and considerable portions of the land are cultivated as gardens, in which flowers and fruits of every kind are raised …
University of London: the Historical Record (1836-1926)
… Former fellows and officers Former Fellows. Acton, Lord, D.C.L.18661902. … Prof. William Thomas, D.C.L., F.R.S.183666. Brougham and Vaux, Rt. Hon Lord, LL.D., F.R.S.183637. Buchanan, Sir … Cavendish, Sir William ( afterwards 2nd Earl of Burlington and 6th Duke of Devonshire): 183656. Leveson-Gower, Granville …
Survey of London
… Former houses between the sites of Pembroke House and Montague House CHAPTER 12: FORMER HOUSES BETWEEN THE SITES OF PEMBROKE HOUSE AND MONTAGU HOUSE The present chapter contains an account of … 1690 to the erection of the present houses in Whitehall Gardens early in the nineteenth century. Residence of the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (All Saints) FORNHAM ( All Saints), a parish, in the union and hundred of Thingoe, W. division of Suffolk, 2 miles (N. … Westley annexed, valued in the king's books at 19. 10. 5., and in the patronage of Clare Hall, Cambridge: the tithes have been commuted for 440. 15. 10., and the glebe comprises 14 acres. The church is an ancient …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… There is no evidence that Beverley was ever walled and its defences in the Middle Ages consisted of a ditch, … with an internal earthen bank, around part of the town and gates or 'bars' across the main roads. The 'great ditch … park. 75 The earliest gate recorded was North bar, and there was evidently a second bar there beyond the town …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… 1321, when Edward II licensed the building of a ditch and a crenellated wall of stone and lime. 1 The licence was … demarcated by docks on the west and east and by Queen's Gardens on the north. A bartizan from the south-west bastion … Citadel, and moved to the park in 1912: Hull Corp. Mins. Parks and Burial Cttee. 191112, 45, 73, 78, 91. Ex inf. Mr. …