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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… so that they are put up with the greatest ease by any country upholsterer' [Newspapers (1755)]. OED online earliest …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 9000 acres, of which 1915 are in Padiham township. The country exhibits a wild aspect: the hills along the Calder …
Old and New London
… the name of its resident owner, Mr. Cockerell, just like a country manor house fifty miles from London; while half a … and spire at the west end, not unlike the type of the country churches of Sussex, and its picturesqueness was … Green. The fields about there were pleasant places for a country ramble, even at the beginning of the present century. …
The Environs of London
… anno 1746." Peter Coste was a native of France; which country he left on account of his religion, and resided many … cadets. See p. 339. A native of Holland, who came to this country in the late king's reign. He was employed in various …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… to the north and west separated Orme Square from open country. 6 The earliest quarter of Bayswater, however, was … the oldest parts of Bayswater, which 'might be part of a country town', were being closed in 1937, although they had … ii. 308; above, plate 54. Ibid.; Clunn, Face of Lond. 438. Country Life, 31 May 1984; 7 Mar. 1985 (adverts.). Pevsner, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… by the canal were claimed to be the tallest in the country 12 and in 1967 Westminster planned what was described …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Pevsner, Lond. ii. 296; notes supplied by V. Illus. in Country Life, 1 Nov. 1973, 1358-60. 28 Geo. III, c. 74. e.g. …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… 17 and associations with long-distance travel to the west country rather than with suburban commuting, 18 earned …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… year and subjected to a duty equivalent to that on north country sea coal. 2 While canal-borne supplies remained small …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… 39 In 1857 Bristol Gardens still commanded uninterrupted country views to the north and west. 40 Leases for 7 houses …