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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and the remainder gardens, sites for building, roads, water, and waste. The surface is varied, and in many parts of … The town is lighted with gas, is well supplied with fresh water, and the streets are kept remarkably clean. There are … bridge gave way, and those upon it were plunged into the water below: 79 lives were lost. Yarmouth is not a …
A History of the County of Sussex
… 1937. 92 There was street lighting by 1965. 93 The Bognor water company supplied parts of the parish in 1928. 94 Some … ha. of peas, 2 ha. of strawberries, and 3 ha. of bulbs. 62 Mills. John of Polingford erected a windmill in Yapton … it was vacant and by 1500 it was derelict. 66 There was a water mill on Bercourt and Wildbridge manor in 1460. 67 No …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… WORSTED'. Not found in the OED Sources: Acts. Yavonte water Judging from the context of the only example in the … this was a fashionable, eighteenth-century SCENTED WATER [Tradecards (1790s)]. Nothing is known about its …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… no visible surface features. The island is surrounded by a water-filled ditch between 17 m. and 25 m. wide on the S.W., … N.E. of the moat appears to be a former leat which carried water round the site, possibly to a mill at its S.E. end. The …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Council, 40 which resold most of the land to the Thames Water Authority. Part of Pixey mead was sold for the … which also belonged to the earls of Cornwall, 10 and the mills given to Rewley abbey by Earl Edmund in 1291 were in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a. (713 ha.). 48 An area known as Fries, lying mainly in Water Eaton, included a small part of the south-east corner … so that low-lying ground was almost always flooded and water could not be drained from the village. 56 Improvements … to the ford at its south-west corner was usually under water in winter. 66 From the west end of the village a hollow …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… as manure for the lands. Numerous springs of excellent water afford an abundant supply for domestic use. The soil is … voe, on the east, containing sufficient space and depth of water to moor a large fleet. Near this is Whalefirth voe, on … and consist of a fine valley on the banks of the Gifford water, and of which the Cambro-British Ystrad, now softened …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… included in Nassington, a village attributed with two mills, one of which may have been at Yarwell. In the Middle … chamfered orders resting on a round pier and responds with water-holding bases. Capitals are enriched with nail-head. … responds are half rounded with roll-moulded capitals and water-holding bases. The arch has two housings presumably for …