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A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… woods, and the views over the Channel and the adjacent country possess much interest. On the north, the bay has some …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and supposed to be of great antiquity. The whole line of country contains mineral springs, which vary in strength, and …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 12
… freehold, was transformed at that period into a small country house. Crooke's Farm stands on a site that slopes … from the south Crooke's Farm was made to resemble a small country house in the late 1820s or 1830s; it had for some …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… landed in England, and having laid waste the adjoining country, compelled the inhabitants of Oxford to surrender, … frequent incursions and devastations of this part of the country materially retarded the progress of the university. … less than 300 were rented by them; for their supply the country for 20 miles round Oxford was appropriated by the …
Old and New London
… of Oxford Street, then "the way to Uxbridge," was open country, with fields and hedges, and dotted irregularly with … of the New Monthly. It was then on the very verge of the country, the town ending at Connaught Place, or thereabouts, … to the different opinions and feelings of the people in a country where the press speaks what it thinks, and no tongue …
Old and New London
… Canons at Edgware, "so that he might ride from town to the country through his own estate." Dodsley writes, in his … not of Maiden Lane, as usually supposed, but of the west country. He writes, "We were sailing on the St. German's … in very early life, whither he must have come from the country. His father was a barber. When Turner had a cottage …
Survey of London
… Lawrence Cox was a timber merchant of Rotherhithe with a country house in Dorset, Woolcombe Hall, which had been …
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… in the same trades by 1844. [D] Palfrey, Robert, The North Country Sailor Inn, Exmouth, Devon, cm and innholder … made in wood that are not to be had in this part of the country of any person but himself. At this date he also had a … finest ensemble of early Rococo furniture in any English country house. The two bills are accompanied by a letter …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… which the prtorium was seated, overlooking the surrounding country. Of the triple intrenchments by which it was … and thus became one of the wealthiest institutions in the country. Its lands were erected into a royalty, under the … and in 1617 the monarch himself, on revisiting his native country, was received in the great hall, when an address in …
Alumni Oxonienses
… St. George's Botolph, London, but had returned to his own country before Dec., 1645, ejected from rectory of St. James, …