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Old and New London
… CHAPTER XXVIII. AGAR TOWN, AND THE MIDLAND RAILWAY. Origin of the Midland RailwayAgar Town as it wasA Good … of this locality was transferred by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, to whom it had reverted, to the Midland … called Maiden Lane, and it is one of the most ancient roads in the north of London. The historian Camden says, "It …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Agriculture AGRICULTURE The agriculture of Middlesex has always been of special interest, though the … these cannot very well be exact returns of area because roads and steeps at cross ways are not returned in any … of Lancaster, 2,273 acres; the Church (Ecclesiastical Commissioners), 1,309 acres; D. A. Hamborough, esq,, Ventnor, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 1500-1793 AGRICULTURE c. 1500 c. 1793 Sketch map of farming countries In the 16th century Wiltshire, excluding enclaves, comprehended parts of various farming regions. In the north was the Cheese … amongst the lands to be divided and re-allotted by the commissioners. 21 Finally, some of the lands divided were …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… c. 1870 In 1794 T. Davis wrote: 'The agricultural pursuits of the inhabitants of every county or district are directed, … expected. Likewise, in the north the spread of turnpike roads provided encouragement to inclosure in an area where … taking place in the open fields before inclosure, and the commissioners, therefore, only accelerated an existing …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… along with it, has experienced severe fluctuations of fortune. 1 In general the causes of these fluctuations have been in no way peculiar to … subsoils of the Clay Vales. Many witnesses, including the commissioners themselves in their report on agriculture in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… with Bailey and Chaigley, a township, in the parish of Mitton, union of Clitheroe, Lower division of the hundred of Blackburn, N. … Stone is quarried for building purposes, and for making roads. The living is a discharged rectory, with the vicarage …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Aisholt AISHOLT Aisholt c.1838 THE ancient parish of Aisholt or Asholt lay in two parts: the larger included Aisholt village on the eastern side of the Quantock ridge 4 km. south of Nether Stowey; the smaller was 4.5 km. north-east of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… (O.S. 6 in. xiii. N.E.) Ecclesiastical (1). Parish Church of St. James, in the middle of the village, was re-built in 1854. It contains, from the … Chandler, 1674. Plate: includes small cup and cover paten of 1569. ConditionGood. Secular Monuments (26) These cottages …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and market-town having separate jurisdiction, and the head of a union, locally in the hundred of Cashio, or liberty of St. Alban's, county of Hertford, 12 … year 950, built a church on each of the three principal roads leading from the monastery, dedicated respectively to …
Survey of London
… Albany CHAPTER XXII Albany: Stone Conduit Close Of the present buildings of Albany the 'mansion' (or Albany … (five in all) on the west side of the mansion by the Commissioners of Works, who thus became Albany proprietors. 107 The Commissioners were selling two of these sets in April 1873. …