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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Waterbeach Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY In 1086 the vill had the relatively low assessment in proportion to its area of 6 … maker into the 1890s, a basket maker to c. 1930, 26 and a painter and plumber to 1900. The Leach family ran a builders' …
A History of the County of Hertford
… (xiii cent.); Watteford (xiv cent.); Watfurth (xvi cent.). The parish of Watford is situated in the south-western corner of the county. It is watered by two … also the birthplace of Richard Barrett Davis, the animal painter. He was born in 1782, and died in 1854, having been a …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Wellbeck WELLBECK. This monastery was begun in the time of king Stephen, who confirmed the gift which 1 Raph de Bellasago made to God and the church … Richard de Flintham, William his brother. Hugh, the painter, Swan the (prpositus) provost of Normandy, William, …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wellington WELLINGTON Wellington The ancient parish and townships and the civil parish boundary changes of 1883-1884 … 'Hesba Stretton'; 84 C. G. Lawson (1851-82), the landscape painter; and D. H. S. Cranage (1866- 1957), antiquary and …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Roger of Montgomery, earl of Shrewsbury (d. 1094), gave the church there to Shrewsbury abbey. 91 By the mid 12th century the incumbent received only part of the … church. Eyton's successor Owen was best known as a painter and etcher. 94 In 1843 there were three services …
Old and New London
… West Brompton and the South Kensington Museum CHAPTER IX. WEST BROMPTON, SOUTH … th' invisible universal Lord, Who lets once more in peace the nations meet, Where Science, Art, and Labour have … his death. Again, side by side, from the hand of the same painter, Isabey, hung Napoleon and the Duke of Wellington, …
Survey of London
… Broken red line shows former Clerkenwell parish boundary The area described in this chapter lies at the western edge of Clerkenwell, merging indistinctly to the … died in Great Warner Street); 47 Henry Bone RA, enamel painter to George III, at Great Bath Street in 1784; and the …
Survey of London
… Street CHAPTER XVI. West of Penton Street Nowhere in the old parish of Clerkenwell is a sense of the original building pattern having been swept away stronger … Street, which was more or less a De Valangin enclave. The painter Thomas Uwins is said to have been born at Hermes Hill …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (Holy Trinity) WETHERAL ( Holy Trinity), a parish, in the union of Carlisle, chiefly in Cumberland ward, but partly in Eskdale ward, E. division of the county of Cumberland; containing, with the townships of … since in the rear of Melcombe. Thornhill, the celebrated painter, was a native of Melcombe, and represented that …
Survey of London
… about 1665, and has left his impressions on record. One of the places that he visited was Whitehall. He specially mentions the Banqueting House, which, he says, 1 "looks very stately, … references 300 occur to Gunter's dial: "Thomas Decritz, Painter, for painting, guilding and oyling the greate Dyall …