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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… a moat, 100 by 140 ft., a little north-east of the village street. 8 Most of the old inclosures adjoining that moat … Jenyns who sat in Parliament, mostly for Cambridge county or borough, 1747-80. 41 In 1757 he owned c. 405 a. in … contain extensive, probably medieval, earthworks. One or more lines of elongated fishponds, whose dry beds, some …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the timber-framed structure off the south-east end of the street, 57 which survived in 1991, remodelled as a farm … seating 230, was built on Paul property south-west of the street. 61 In 1873, when two services were held weekly at … bays of grey brick, on a site slightly west of Lode high street. Annexes were added at its west c. 1855. 69 There were …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… The poor law union of Great Boughton comprises 99 parishes or places, of which 96 are in Cheshire, and 3 in the county … of that part of the parish which is now called South-street. The parish comprises 2349 a. 3 r. 27 p.; 1220 acres … called the Bourn-Eau; bourn being the Saxon term for brook or torrent. Though little of its early history is known, the …
A History of the County of Essex
… and its four hamlets (the parishes of Lexden, Berechurch or West Donyland, Greenstead, and Mile End), in addition to part of the river Colne which had been granted or confirmed to the burgesses by Richard I. In the late 13th … recorded in the early 13th century, and the north or North Street quarter or ward in 1254. The later four wards, North, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and could not make the inhabitants contribute to tallages or subsidies. 7 In 1383, after a dispute with Merton College … account of the route, dating apparently from the late 14th or early 15th century, survives in two versions, both more or … the short-lived St. Frideswide's parish, none followed a street for any distance. Changing property boundaries led to …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… that the hamlets were considered to lie within the liberty or liberties of Beverley. Thus after a dispute concerning … in the 18th century whether the justices of the town or those of the East Riding had jurisdiction in the … Fish Market (later Wednesday Market), Flemingate, 'high street' ( aha via), Keldgate archbishop's, Keldgate …
Survey of London
… which lay to the north of High Holborn and east of Dyot Street and of a line drawn northwards from the latter's termination in Great Russell Street (see Plate 6). This northward line was afterwards … of Lincoln's Inn Fields, and the area lying between Wild Street and Drury Lane, were thereby taken from St. Giles, a …
Survey of London
… Bourdon Street and Grosvenor Hill Area CHAPTER III Bourdon Street and … health, it was revealed that his house 'contained fifty or sixty persons'. 7 By this time the stirrings of the … remainder having survived conversion into garages, flats or studios with little change to their appearance, although …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… m. W.S.W. of Cambridge and about 1 m. to the E. of Ermine Street. The name brunnr is Old Norse for spring or stream in allusion to the Bourn Brook (Reaney, 'Place-names of Cambs.', 155); or perhaps to a mineral spring, no longer traceable on the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and comprising 407 acres, of which 70 are common or waste. The chapel, in which divine service is performed … and comprising 4299 acres, of which 2780 are common or waste. The lords of this manor formerly exercised the … the river Greta. The village consists principally of one street, nearly three-quarters of a mile in length; and has …