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A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… narrow, and contains several houses of very ancient date. Broad-street is spacious, and has at one extremity the … plantations; and the public promenade called the Back Walk, on the south of the Castle Hill, tastefully laid out in … held in the town-hall, a spacious and handsome building in Broad-street, with a lofty steeple in which are a clock and a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is Castle-Steads, a Roman camp, 188 yards long and 160 broad, which has an inner and an outer rampart. It is placed …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… connected with railways. The viaduct is 2180 feet long, 31 broad and 106 above the level of the stream, and is supported … The main street, which is about half a mile in length, is broad, and contains numerous well-built houses, chiefly of … Newport is threequarters of a mile in length, and 80 yards broad; and at a comparatively small outlay of capital, the …
Old and New London
… and forms a handsome quadrangle, is approached by a broad avenue from the Clapham Road. At the end of this … in extent, is now laid out in grass-plats, intersected by broad and well-kept gravelled walks bordered with …
Survey of London
… Common at the west end of the present Stockwell Park Walk, John Angell erected a large house. 69 The house later …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… where the mill-wheel stood. Beyond, to the N., is a broad channel, undoubtedly the mill-race, which runs for some … water ran into two channels. To the E. it passed along a broad water-course and into the ditch surrounding a small … continuous bank, 8 m. across and up to 1.5 m. high, with a broad, inner ditch, 5 m. wide. N. of the wood is a modern …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… acres of medow, pasture wood three qu. long, and three qu. broad. This was valued in Edward the Confessors time at 110s. … and twenty acres of medow, small wood three qu. long, one broad. The barony of this Goisfrid de Alselin or Hanselin, …
A History of the County of Northampton
… and east of the fields belonging to each township lay a broad strip of riverside meadow, 19 which may once have …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… exposed large areas of Oxford Clay; around the village, broad flat limestone bands outcrop. The latter areas have … and Linear Ditches (Fig. 96), S. of the village on a broad area of limestone and clay sloping N.E. between 100 ft. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… lady, probably a Walwyn, in horned and veiled head-dress, broad waist-band, two dogs at feet, c. 1470, mutilated. …