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A History of the County of Oxford
… been wet: in 1795 meadowland and arable near the newly-cut Oxford canal was said to have been damaged by water … weekly by barge via the Oxford canal and the Duke's Cut. 76 John Swann was succeeded by John, Charles, and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… bridge to pull boats through the bridge. 81 In 1780 a cut was made through the site of Godstow abbey, to the west … a pound lock was built at its lower end in 1790. 82 The cut, already over a foot too shallow in places in 1792, was … in 1884 and 1885. The road to Wytham crossed the cut by a bridge, built by the Thames Commissioners in 1780 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… suggest that the buildings extended as far east as the new cut made in 1780 and enlarged in 1885. 46 In the cloister … may have lain on swampy ground north-west of the lock-cut bridge, 52 was surrounded by a precinct wall which …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… jamb of W. arch, incised cross in a double lozenge, partly cut away by chamfered edge of jamb and now set upside down, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… but has been re-tooled and plastered; the capitals are re-cut, or modern; of the S. arcade only the W. respond and the … probably c. 1510figure of man, and inscription partly cut off for modern seats. In N. chapel(7) to Maud and …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… metal to wood. Usually they are tapered screws with a deep cut thread so that they hold fast. Screw making was a …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… and the Inch brook, and north of the house on a road cut in 1787 33 stand the Catholic church and school, built in …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… they were taken as the boundary of the two parishes would cut Wood Ditton into a thousand shreds and patches'. 14 In … of the north. In 1283-4 Robert de Crèvecoeur allegedly cut down 400 oaks, 13 ashes, and underwood. 40 It was still a … granted a long lease to the Forestry Commission, which cut down the mature oak, cleared the coppice, and replanted …