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A History of the County of Warwick
… broad and the gradient less steep, mill leats had to be long to provide a sufficient head of water. The number of … though in the valleys patches of boggy ground such as the Long Moor above Deritend tended to impede the flow of water … and John Cockersall granted to Edward Holte of Duddeston a close called Cavels in Aston Manor and a house or mill there …
A History of the County of Warwick
… of an executed criminal, to 'continue . . . every day as long as the body can be preserved'. 54 Darwin was a member of … and scientists like Smeaton and R. E. Raspe. 68 It was in close contact with industrialists and their practical …
A History of the County of Warwick
… 12 Within the workshop, social relations were often close and friendly, although there was no doubt where … version of the Birmingham news rooms which already had a long history), 76 a library, a chess room, a refreshment … founded in 1880. 46 The theatre in Birmingham also has a long history. The Theatre Royal 47 was again destroyed by …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… of water-meadows in the chalk country, which overcame the long-standing shortage of fodder and so greatly enhanced the … and was not far from a coalfield. Possibly it was the long concentration on cloths of high quality that was … too, the bacon-curing industry, for which Wiltshire had long been noted, became a factory industry from the 1850's …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… in Medshot, 16 a. in Crosshot, and 10 a. next to the manor close. Of the meadow, 1 a. and 3 lots lay in Westfield, and … no need of such records because any common management had long since disappeared. Lammas rights became a source of … he had two separate parcels containing 11 lots in all, 7 long and 4 short, and another 1 a. None of the arable is …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… earl of Lincoln's estate in 1611, was manuring heavily a close near the Thames, buying dung brought by boat from … by the Thames c. 1575 or later. 8 The house and a small close were later leased to Lodowick Briskett 1603-4, and … converted' held by John Wivell, again in Westfield. 4 A close called the Eighteen Acres near Little Chelsea belonging …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… pot chamber, sandroom and rooms for fetting and mettle, a long large warehouse and an accounting house nearly 100 ft long, a mill house, a kilnhouse with several kilns, a smith's … firms in the 18th and 19th centuries, one of them quite long-lived. James Woodmason of Chelsea, paper-stainer, is …
A History of the County of Essex
… to have the services of a substantial population living close at hand. 1 The great influence was the growth of the … rejected by Parliament, and were in fact only moves in a long series of quarrels and negotiations with the Gas Light … in London. Even in West Ham, however, it underwent a long period of decline. The great days were in the …
A History of the County of Essex
… location and therefore the chances of employment. But as long as there was a road or navigable river of some sort it … of labour and also served the needs of some of London's long-distance goods traffic, since large numbers of vehicles … ten minutes to Oxford Circus, and other routes which came close to the Essex boundary were those from Old Ford to the …
A History of the County of Chester
… references to individual guilds stretched over a long period. The Bakers, Glovers, Weavers, Fletchers, … disparate trades, but others were simply ad hoc, if long-lasting, arrangements between what always remained … part by formally incorporating groups of trades which had long co-operated in the Whitsun and Midsummer pageants, like …