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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… S. wall are three windows, the easternmost is of late 15th or early 16th-century date, and of two plain lights under a … but was much altered and partly rebuilt late in the 17th or early in the 18th century. There are modern additions on … has grouped shafts and pilasters, set diagonally. b (9). Street Farm, house, 80 yards N.W. of the church, was built …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of considerable dimensions, supposed to be British, or Danish. Ashley ASHLEY, a tything, in the parish of Milton, … It comprises 2342 acres, of which 643 are common or waste; the soil is heavy and flinty, and the ground … at all, short of 25,000. At the extremity of Great Brooke-street are the Vauxhall gardens, which have lately been laid …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… descending eastwards to the Kennett have either dried up or been straightened as drainage ditches. Waver pond at the … in 1548, besides several hundred mature trees in three or four small groves. The trees in two closes were … roads to Newmarket, Moulton (Mill Road), Dalham (Church Street), and Silverley (High Street). 64 About 1670 there …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… in the North family, 49 though it was not always held or exercised by the head of the family. In 1731, during the … From 1984 those three benefices and Woodditton with Saxon Street were held in plurality, and in 1987 the four were … sold in 1982. 75 The poverty of the benefices, separately or together, made them unattractive. Medieval rectors of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… at least 27 fields (some also called furlongs), besides 41 or more other named divisions, 51 and in the 17th century … 'pieces', blocks of adjoining strips covering up to 5 a. or sometimes more: in 1591 the glebe of Silverley rectory and … 19th century were a farmhouse and a few cottages in Church Street, and the smithy and poorhouse, built on manorial …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… of ground, the sites of buildings still standing in 1729 or 1819, exist in a number of places (e.g. SP 78484988, … a pattern resembling abandoned closes of deserted villages or settlement remains. However, there are no indications of occupation within these closes or of any obvious trackway approaching them. There are …
A History of the County of Northampton
… several of which clearly date from the late 16th century or early 17th. Perhaps the most ambitious is the former … was occupied in the Middle Ages and later by open fields or common meadow, which were inclosed in 1819. 64 During the … the Second World War and others were installed in 1953-4. Street lighting arrived in 1951 and sewers the following …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… latter receives 5 s. per acre on all hopgrounds. Ashton, or Ashton-Upon-Ribble ASHTON, or ASHTON-UPON-RIBBLE, with Lea, Cottam, and Ingol, a … commodious premises are situated at the top of Church-street, immediately adjoining the western gates of the parish …
A History of the County of Sussex
… north-east, and south the boundary follows the river Adur or tributary streams, but in the east it runs west of the … is gently rolling, dissected by streams flowing north or east to join the river Adur. The north and north-east … when one parishioner was described as living 'in the east street'. 47 That street seems likely to have been the one …