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A History of the County of Warwick
… block. The building is surrounded by a moat crossed by a bridge. Some of the farm-buildings are timber-framed. Wiggins … William de Beauchamp, in 1298, its bounds ran from Salford Bridge by Perry Barr and Barr Beacon to the source of the … its junction with the Tame at Drayton, and back to Salford Bridge. 112 It thus took in a south-eastern corner of …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… dated 1665 gave a rent-charge for the repair of the Long Bridge. 9 In the 18th century the trustees became responsible …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… 1540 to have been on the Swilgate 72 near the Gander Lane bridge; 73 record of it at a later date has not been found. … an old wooden windmill on Windmill Hill, south of Holm Bridge, and replaced it with a brick building; near-by, in …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… the left bank of the Severn. Tradition relates that the bridge across the Avon was built by King John, and certainly … bailiff of Tewkesbury was to have two oaks for making a bridge. 109 The first record of the tradition suggests that John built the bridge before his accession to the throne. 110 The name King …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… market tolls given by King John for the repair of the Long Bridge. 24 From 1201 to 1208 the rents and dues of the town, … 1796. 113 It is a large red-brick building, south of Holm Bridge, which ceased to be a home for old people in 1955 and … the works 131 built for Cheltenham Borough at the Mythe Bridge in the 1870's. 132 By 1921 piped water want to 900 out …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Benbow', which in 1788 stood in the meadow near the Long Bridge. 92 Buildings. Manor-houses, churches and chapels, … the castle at Holm Hill, the high ground south of Swilgate Bridge. In Leland's time some ruins of the bottoms of walls …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… town, near a crossing of the Avon a little above the Long Bridge. From there a road may have crossed the Avon Ham and … close by the Severn under the Mythe Tute towards Bow Bridge in Twyning, 1 and it was in the northern end of the … in 1650, the stone being used to repair the Long Bridge. 10 The High Cross was evidently a simple cross, …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… chapels belonging to religious foundations and one was a bridge chapel. The church of ST. MARY consists of a chancel … St. Peter-in-the-West. The church of St. Peter, near the bridge, appears to have been built on a tumulus overlooking … with the tenement known as the Swan, near Shillingford Bridge, with all tithes, both great and small, were granted …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… 1540 among the possessions of the castle. 9 Shillingford Bridge is mentioned in 1300 and 1370, but it is not mentioned … 14th century, and may have been only a temporary timber bridge. 10 It was not until the 18th century that the ferry gave place to a bridge, a wooden structure which was superseded by the …