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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… walls are from 7 to 11 feet thick, and from 15 to 17 feet high: in the midst is a well of strongly impregnated mineral …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Burbage. 41 Its most likely course is that now followed by High Street. In the 16th century the northern part of the … the later 17th century the road from Marlborough, of which High Street was part, forked c. 2 km. south of the village … in 1995, and in 1991 was diverted to a new course west of High Street. 45 Use of the branch to Salisbury via Everleigh …
The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk
… north and south. Its walls are still about fourteen feet high, and nine in thickness. On the east side, which is the … on the western side, which overlooked the river, whose high and precipitous bank rendered such a defence … it for above sixteen centuries. "The wall was twelve feet high, guarded by flanking towers, and exploratory turrets, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… sea, is a spacious structure, with a lofty tower 88 feet high, forming a conspicuous landmark to mariners; it was …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… ogee head and projecting bowl, 14th-century; it is now too high above the floor of the existing loft to have served for …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the Town of Stamford
… (Fig. 111) This was formerly the only road running E. from High Street St. Martins to Pilsgate, Burghley and Barnack. … in it until the fragmentation of the garden of 35 High Street St. Martins in the late 18th century; the first …
Calendar of Documents Preserved in France
… and tithes belonging to it, and the land of Brunescota at High Bray ( Brai) a virgate of land and the church, which …
Survey of London
… where the shops would be 'open' and only a single storey high. Easy perambulation would have been interrupted by steps … having a plain lettered panel in the centre. Buttresses as high as the parapet, and capped with a plain moulding, stood …
Survey of London
… were particularly hard to come by, and prices were high. But Burlington's sister, Viscountess Ranelagh, urged … the west boundary in 1818. Fronting to Piccadilly was a high screenwall evidently set back some 20 feet or so from … triangular plots by diagonal paths, each one bordered by high cut hedges, or enclosed by 'green tunnels', like those …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… feet, and another 91 feet, above the level of the sea at high-water mark, with revolving lights. On Trinity Monday and … inclosed by a wall, 70 feet broad at the base, and 10 feet high, to protect it from the sea. The village, which joins … and Thorpe. The soil, in the valley, is rich, but on the high grounds poor turbary earth, with heath; the surface is …