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A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… is yet remaining: it was built with the slate stone of the country, and, from the appearance of the spacious entrance, … of his sons, who fell in fighting the battles of their country against the Saxons, and falling into poverty in his … together with a large tract of uninclosed and uncultivated country, where peat, which forms the principal fuel of the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Taylor c. 1716. 19 'Much better' in 1781 than the average country parsonage, 20 it is of red brick with stone dressings …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Richard Reynolds introduced iron rails, the first in the country; by 1785 the company had over 20 miles of iron … op. cit. 17, 19-22, 24-5, 35-6, 79-82; L. S. Pressnell, Country Banking in the Ind. Rev. (1956), 375, 382. Cossons …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… lay beyond the southern limit of the Cheshire cheese country 88 and little cheese seems to have been made … put them in order 63 and workmen from other parts of the country may have been brought to Madeley. 64 Francis Wolfe … owned one of the largest iron-making concerns in the country. In 1797, however, the Darby and Reynolds interests …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… during the Hay's conversion to a hotel and golf and country club, opened in 1981. 61 Largely 18th-century and of …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… private when the Telford Hotel, including a golf and country club, opened in 1981. 58 From 1976 Telford …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… of St. Andrew, Histon, which was then being restored ( Country Life XXXII, (1912), 45465). A pedigree of the Hyndes, … 17th-century feature moved c. 1935 to Herstmonceux ( Country Life, LXXVIII (1935), 632, 636); it was formerly in …
A History of the County of Chester
… 2/1/23, 9; J. M. Crook, 'Archit. of Thos. Harrison, II', Country Life, 22 Apr. 1971, pp. 9467; M. A. R. Ockrim, 'Thos. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the Scots, who had made an irruption into this part of the country; the town was burnt by Archbishop Thurstan in his … educated in Ireland, raised considerable forces in that country, and landing in the Isle of Man, demanded one moiety … such an extent as materially to affect the revenue of the country, an act was passed in 1726, authorising the tenth …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… mangoes were an exotic fruit, only appearing in this country in the form of a pickle, cooks attempted to make a … wrist of some African tribes, often manufactured in this country to be used in trade to exchange with slaves. For this … WORSTED made in NORWICH and later imitated in the West country [Montgomery (1984)]. They were plain woven with dark …