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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… by the navigable river Fal; the shore is enriched with wood to the water's edge. Stone for building is quarried, and …
St Mary Colechurch: vestry minutes
… 8: Culverwell 9: Turner 9: Jackson 9: Rudge 9: Tayler 9: Wood 10: Mattinley 10: Penicer 10: Hewes 1: Bonnell 1: Towse …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… was woodland accounted 20 a. and there was 10 a. of wood near the western parish boundary at Hare Street, 24 and … Several fittings inside the church incorporate carving in wood by Bertrand Pleydell-Bouverie. 19 In 1553 a 5-oz. …
A Dictionary of London
… out of Brackley Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without (Hor-wood 179~Elmes, 1831). The site seems to be occupied by a …
Alumni Oxonienses
… incorporated as D.C.L. June, 1572, according to Wood, but in O.H.S. x. 375, it appears that "he suppl. to … Feb., 1685-6, to marry Martha, daughter of John Nourse, of Wood Eaton, Oxon; professor of anatomy at Oxford, F.R.S. …
Survey of London
… a triangular pediment. The shop-front, which is of wood, resembles the one illustrated by Tallis, but has no … stone, and a steep pantiled roof. The shop-fronts, wood framed and surmounted by large fanlights with richly … of the well-known Swiss Cottage tavern at St. John's Wood. 128 The faade of the building was ornamented with two …
Old and New London
… at the lodgings of Dr. Goddard (one of its originators) in Wood Street, sometimes in Cheapside, and on other occasions …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… According to John Houghton pikestaves were made of ASH wood. He described how in southern Spain young ash trees were … four pike staves [Houghton]. Ash was still the preferred wood in modern times according to an OED quotation dated … pyne; pyn; pinne; pinn; pine] This is a slender piece of WOOD or WIRE, (now normally of BRASS or IRON, TINNED), …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… comprises 1754 acres of cultivated land, besides 200 of wood and coppice, and 40 of common; the surface is very … acres of arable land, 2062 acres meadow and pasture, 4 wood, 875 uncultivated moss, 381 green marsh, and 1500 acres …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… centre of the range. Several casement windows have moulded wood mullions. Inside, there are some plank-and-muntin …