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A History of the County of Somerset
… endowed mass before the Rood by 1296. 87 Lights before the high cross were still supported by a separate fund in 1420, … morning service. 53 In 1537 a house on the north side of High Street and described as the church house was conveyed to …
A History of the County of Somerset
… except the small Hamp green; rents and heriots were high. 30 By 1698 some holdings had been consolidated: the … has been found. A horse mill in use on the south side of High Street in 1655 belonged to the Halswell estate. 61 A … market at Bridgwater in 1200. 67 Stalls were set up in High Street by the mid 13th century, and by 1367 some stalls …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Dampiet Street, open between 1919 and 1937. St. Margaret's high school for girls began c. 1923 in King Street, later …
A History of the County of Somerset
… investigated by a House of Lords committee because of the high mortality rate there. 96 In 1837 it was replaced by the … and to convey it to a cistern to be built over the high cross. George Balch, whose family had the lease of part … were in Fore Street until 1875 when they moved to High Street. A new police station was opened in Northgate in …
A History of the County of Somerset
… century Muchelney abbey was granted a half burgage 95 in High Street, which it still held in 1388. 96 The Monmouth … 97 valued at 4 s. in 1535 and including a tenement in High Street. 98 Apart from its manor of Hamp, Athelney abbey …
A History of the County of Somerset
… a cockpit' with room for 400 people; the furniture, piled high in the Cornhill and topped by the pulpit and cushion, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… said to have come from the chapel of St. Andrew at the High Cross. b(2) Parish Church of St. Swithun, Allington, now … of St. Swithun, Allington. It is of rubble, about 7 ft. high and extends from E. to W. Incorporated in it is a … head; a window in the W. wall, now blocked, is set high up and has a steeply splayed sill; it is perhaps …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… from Dorchester, and 134 (W. S. W.) from London, on the high road to Exeter; containing 4787 inhabitants. This was a … style, with a square embattled tower seventy-two feet high, rising from the centre, and crowned with pinnacles: it … is hilly, but since the inclosure of the waste land, the high grounds have been chiefly brought into cultivation: …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… also have been applied to BLUE CLOTH, the usual name of a high-quality WOOLLEN CLOTH made in the Worcester area and … dyed red. Certain areas specialized in the production of high quality red cloth, particularly Stroudwater in …
A History of the County of Sussex
… the statutory duty to appoint a constable, known as the high constable, for Worthing town, who in 1859 was said to …