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A History of the County of Warwick
… an engagement about 1 miles out of the town along the road to Warwick. 9 The Royalists drew up their forces under the Welcombe Hills, overlooking the road. Brooke placed his artillery in the van and so disposed … of the principal roads going through or near the town: the road from Oxford to Birmingham; the Fosse Way, which crosses …
A History of the County of Warwick
… takes its name from the crossing of the Avon by a Roman road which ran from the Rykneild Street at Alcester to join … to the 'mycel straete', 5 which was presumably the Roman road (now the road to Banbury) and formed also the south-western boundary …
A History of the County of Warwick
… a field called Harewells on the east side of the Shipston road, beyond the turn to Cheltenham, with another field …
A History of the County of Warwick
… half-way between Birmingham and Lichfield, along the main road joining these two places. It covers an area of about … for the most part by the main Birmingham-Lichfield road. To the west are extensive deposits of Bunter Pebble … Farm (in Tanworth) as one knight's fee. 295 In 1239 Bartholomew de Turbervill conveyed 3 carucates of land in …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… house until 1827, when the vicarage house in Gloucester Road was built by subscription. 38 Under a trust deed of 1886 … Mythe chapel. 65 In 1837 a new church was built in Oldbury Road and consecrated as HOLY TRINITY church. 66 The town …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… fairs, at the feasts of St. Matthias (24 Feb.) and St. Bartholomew (24 Aug.). 143 The two fairs were confirmed in …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… England and Wales. 13 The line of a supposedly Roman road can be followed through the Mythe immediately north of … 151 and widened in 1835. 152 Improvements to the main road there in the 20th century have made Salandine's Bridge … 'the four great roads next Tewkesbury'. 169 These were the road over the Long Bridge northwards, the road leading east …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Carrant brook, the eastern boundary of the parish, and the road to Ashchurch and the River Swilgate and the first town … it continued to be so until 1816 when a new gaol in Bredon Road was built under an Act of 1813. 60 A treadmill was in … had opened an isolation hospital 158 in Gloucester Road, 159 which was replaced in 1910 when the joint hospital …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… who would subscribe generously towards the cost of road-making and was defeated in 1754 by Nicolson Calvert and …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… for the boys' department was opened in 1911 in Oldbury Road, 44 a single-story brick building. The building was … County Secondary School for Girls, on the Ashchurch road just outside the borough boundary. 64 The Tewkesbury …