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Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… in 1946 close to platforms, themselves unploughed and undated, at SP 12050672, 200 yds. N.W. of a Roman villa … by the natural scarp, dropping steeply to the river. On W. and S. the bank is about 27 ft. wide and not more than 1 ft. … are immediately above an area of low ground intersected by drainage channels. A ditch about 3 ft. deep and presumably of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… 86 SW) Great Billing parish lies to the E. of Northampton and prior to 20th-century boundary changes covered an area of … the W. by Little Billing, on the S. by Cogenhoe, Brafield and Little Houghton and on the E. by Ecton. Its W. and E. … material (?)) were discovered during the digging of a new drainage channel ( Northamptonshire Archaeol 11 (1976), 185; …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Durham; comprising the townships of Cowpen-Bewley and NewtonBewley, and the chapelry of Wolviston; and containing 1653 … village. An act was passed in 1840 for the more effectual drainage of land. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… BINTREE ( St. Swithin), a parish, in the union of Mitford and Launditch, hundred of Eynsford, E. division of Norfolk, 2 … of hot and cold water, and thorough and efficient drainage. The ground purchased for these houses, and which … character; and it may be added that, as the general sewerage of the place is effected by the land proprietors, no …
A History of the County of Essex
… HISTORY In the Middle Ages the separate manors of Great and Little Birch occupied the main part of the parish and small areas of neighbouring parishes. William a Birches … farmed' and C. G. Round suggested improvements, including drainage and the application of lime and chalk. In 1844 Wood …
A History of the County of Essex
… in 1801, comprises the adjacent ancient parishes of Great and Little Birch which were adminis- tered together for civil … 50 Birch extended about three miles from east to west and was a very irregular shape with detached parts, its … to Birch. Electricity was supplied from 1933. 61 Mains drainage was provided in the 1960s. 62 There was a resident …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY Agriculture Open Fields and Commons In the mid 13th century Black Bourton had two unnamed fields. 1 Probably in the 16th century and certainly by the 18th there were four: Westbrook field, … 60 people by 1976, 138 and continued in the late 1990s. Drainage improvements begun in the mid 19th century were …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of Black Bourton lies 14 miles (22.5 km) west of Oxford and 5 miles (8 km) south-west of Witney, on gently rising … the parish's northern part was transformed by the creation and expansion of Brize Norton military airbase and by the … supplied from wells about 1958, when there was no mains drainage. 95 An electricity sub-station was built south of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Black Bourton Manors and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES In the late Anglo-Saxon period Black … later, were converted into houses c. 19878. 94 Straight drainage channels in a former orchard to the east are …
Survey of London
… Blackwall Yard Development, c.18191991 The Green and Wigram Years, c181943 After 1815 the fortunes of English shipbuilding improved and Blackwall Yard prospered again. Not only did the building … type driven directly off the engine shaft, as well as a drainage pump and two boilers. In March 1878 Engineering …