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A History of the County of Gloucester
… of parishes which adjoined them: the largest, lying near the Wye and called Hudnalls, is included in part with … Westbury-on-Severn in another volume. Woods at Mailscot, near English Bicknor parish, and at Kidnalls and the Snead, … on a tributary stream of Soudley brook at Sutton bottom, near Soudley, were built as fishponds in the mid 19th century …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… a few wells, and overcrowding, particularly in terraces near Cinderford bridge, caused outbreaks of disease. 41 In … Hill, and Drybrook with water pumped from an ore mine near Green Bottom. 50 The system, which included a small … and Yorkley areas was relieved from a new pumping station near Redbrook. From 1976 much of the Forest region and some …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Richard Snaith 44 conducted baptisms in St. Anthony's well near Gunn's Mills in 1864. 45 The meeting had a chapel in … 75 and in 1846 it built a small chapel on Bradley hill near Upper Soudley. The chapel, a square stone building, was … of c. 14 attending morning services on Quarry hill near Drybrook. 78 At that time Bethel had afternoon and …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… woods by keeping large herds of goats. 82 Moseley Green near Parkend, Oldcroft above Lydney, Whitecroft near Bream, Mirystock above Lydbrook, and 'Coleford's Eaves' … the royal demesne, including some on the outlying tracts near St. Briavels and at Walmore near Westbury, were …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… hamlets such as Shapridge, Fetter Hill, Palmer's Flat near Coleford, and Moseley Green had or were near one or more beerhouses. 8 Although some beerhouses were … coal and ore competed for a trophy at Crump meadow near the centre of the Forest. 38 In the mid 1870s horse …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… time out of mind had all trees standing and adjoining so near their grounds that a horse and a pack could not go … Palatine, a lease of the waste ground called Hay Hill, near Hyde Park, and of another plot near Hyde Park Corner, with power to build thereon. 53 In …
A History of the County of Oxford
… forests of Shotover and Stowood, whilst on the north-east, near Bicester, was the Buckinghamshire forest of Bernwood, a … various wooded parks that have long since disappeared. Near Witney was Minster Lovell Park, for the enclosure of … rain.' A larger oak than this stood at Magdalen College, near the gate of the water-walks; it shaded 768 square yards. …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… large shoal of herrings was formerly found in the Tay, near Newport; but none have appeared within the last fifty … central part of the parish. There is a place of worship near Newport for a congregation of Independents. The … its sides well wooded, rises in the northern district, near the Doveran, to the height of 1000 feet, and commands …
Survey of London
… 55 as a piece of ground with a messuage and garden in or near the Privy Garden, abutting south-east on a "passage … as his: " Albemarle (the Lord) his house is situate near White Hall." (Hatton's New View of London, II, p. 623.) … Algernon, 2nd Earl. "Essex (the Lord) his House is situate near White Hall." (Hatton's New View of London, 1708, II, p. …