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The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… is a most beautiful prospect southward over a variety of country, lying in the vale beneath, of vast extent, which is … stiff clay, and though a fertile, yet an unpleasant miry country. The chapel and street of Plaxtool, together with the … Comp in Saxon signifying a camp or fortification. The country hereabouts is wild and rough ground, covered with …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 42 but in 1977 it led only as far as Barbury Camp country park, established c. 1975, and thereafter became a …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… other antient records, Wy. THE PARISH lies in a healthy country, great part of it being in the fertile Ashford vale; … this parish, is Fanscomb-beech, a tree visible to all the country round, to a great distance; near it was formerly a …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… Horsemonden, and Mar den, it is rather a sorlorn country, the land lying very low, and the soil is exceeding … and other commodities for the supply of the neighbouring country. In 1757 a large eel was caught in the river here, …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… buttress, however, seem to belong to a period which for a country parish church is rather advanced. The completion of … Engl. and Wales, xvi, 301; Allen, Yorks. iii, 522; Six N. Country Diaries (Surt. Soc.), 224. For floods in 1624 and …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… in November. Hartfordbridge flats, a vast extent of heath country, on which black game once existed, reaches from …
Survey of London
… ground-floor level) was mentioned by Christopher Hussey in Country Life in 1928 and was evidently associated with the … almost certainly William Atkinson, who also rebuilt his country house, Himley Hall in Staffordshire. 40 Whether … generally reported to stock most of the banks in the Black Country could well afford it'. 159 Further small works were …
Survey of London
… 37 Granville was a man of taste who also 'improved' his country house, Calwich Abbey in Staffordshire, 38 but no … and Mr. Fernand Billerey' in Architectural Supplement to Country Life, 26 Oct. 1912, p. xiv. GBM 42/214. Ibid., … of London and Their Development. The Grosvenor Estate' in Country Life, 21 April 1928, p. 564: GBM 42/205. M.D.R. …