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A History of the County of Hampshire
… 539 acres, and commands extensive views of the surrounding country. It takes the place of a mansion built in the classic …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… years Shaw House seems to have been one of the centres of country life in northwest Wiltshire. Smith's diary for 17212 … W.N. & Q., iv, 337. C.P. 25(2)/979 East. 1 Anne. Country Life, 4 Dec. 1937. Peerage, Folkstone, Radnor. Country Life, 4 Dec. 1937. Ibid. Ibid.; Jenyngs held the land …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… the district; and almost the highest ambition of the North-country gentleman was to bear away the bell on that famous …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… spire, and the seat of Yokes, and beyond it an extensive country, along the valley to Tunbridge, making altogether a … and referendary to two popes, who built it in his own country about a quarter of a mile distance from the city of … former is a conspicuous ornament to all the neighbouring country throughout the valley; hence the ground rises to …
A History of the County of Warwick
… 911. The parish of Meriden is situated in typical Arden country between Coventry and Birmingham. The village lines … in the 18th century was the 'Bull's Head', 'called by the country People The Handsomest Inn in England'. 4 Guide-book … is a print of the Academy in the Aylesford Collection (Country Seats and Castles), no. 523. Eastcote Hall has a …
A History of the County of Somerset
… peas, while the husbands hawked the vegetables around the country. 128 The number of market gardeners fell from 27 in …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… the soil is a deep stiff clay a miserable wet and dreary country, and the roads execrably bad. There is a fair in this …
A History of the County of Surrey
… In both cases the line lay over a fairly dry and hard country. 5a In 1807 the high road to Croydon was improved by … Pilgrim Lane. This is no doubt part of the old cross-country communication west and east along the Downs, but it …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the parish's market-town, by a trackway across open country. The present road from Islip to Merton is first shown … 8 was still maintained. 121 The original character of the country may be guessed at from the fact that Merton appears … one of the biggest and most ornate in this part of the country. The chancel, which is not exactly orientated, but …
Magna Britannia
… ardent zeal, with what successful valor, he served his country; and taught her enemies to dread her naval power. In … in public, this gallant and profitable servant of his country, when he was beginning to reap the harvest of his … had just finished, (at the expence of the enemies of his country,) and amidst the groans and tears of his beloved …