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Journal of the House of Lords
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… ditch on its S.W. side. It extends from the edge of the fens at the village of Reach to the upland area of south-east … which passed the ancient Icknield Way. It runs between the fens and the formerly forested boulder clay area of Suffolk … The N.W. end of the Devil's Dyke is on the edge of the fens where Reach village meets Reach Lode. The Dyke rises …
City of London Livery Companies Commission. Report
… were entitled to and did charge those persons who cut turf on their holdings a certain sum for each day's cutting …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… called Denver Dam, set by the undertakers for draining the fens of Bedford Level, and other works by them made under … in general the worst lands and of the least value in those fens: the inheritance of several thousands of acres thereof … acres of rich and valuable lands, bordering upon the fens, called Bedford Level. The lands of the petitioners in …
Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum
A History of the County of Middlesex
… and fishers who pursued their activities and camped in the fens along the shores of the great fresh-water Ancylus Lake. … and its tributaries, with their lower reaches of undrained fens and swamps, provided all the game and fish that the … relics to testify to the occupation of gravel ridges, fens, and ancient lake-margins by bands of hunters, fowlers, …
Survey of London Monograph
… Garden." 44 The central walk was gravelled, and there was turf at the side of it. In April 1712 Nicholas Hawksmoor, the …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… broom-stalks' [Patents (1665)] and even 'straw, turf, lime, dung, dirt of the street, and other waste' …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
… is a line of stones at intervals largely covered with turf which, it has been suggested, may indicate the … the foundations of the walls of which show above the turf. This building would appear to be of much later date and …