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Survey of London
… 57 So perhaps it was only a fear that Scott might run wild in this respect that finally excluded him. Spring 1865 … to improve the acoustics. Scott mentions Tite and J. W. Wild as having recommended this feature to him. 155 Cole … against the combined forces of Scott, Townroe and Wild. The decision, which probably went against him, was …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… fewer, 19 the roe is less often mentioned, 20 and the wild boar not at all. The Anglo-Saxon kings enjoyed hunting … 'concerning hares, nets, coney-traps, badgers, foxes, wild cats and partridges, . . . the trespass of animals . . . … and Little Parks of Vastern (and) all manner of deer and wild beasts and liberty of park in the said parks'. 302 There …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the soil generally dry and sandy, and the aspect rather wild. The village is seated in a deep valley, and fifty years …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… to support 1,500 pigs, and there was also a park for wild beasts ( parcus ferarum). 8 At this time, and much … centred upon the exact nature and extent of the park for wild beasts mentioned at Domesday. 23 This most probably …
Rural Parishes: Bix
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… in 1940 Massingham could describe the still wild upper reaches of the Bix Bottom valley as 'shelter [for] …
Rural Parishes: Rotherfield Peppard
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… Isaac Caterer (182868). Walker found Peppard to be in a 'wild, dark, and benighted condition', and sought to dissuade …
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… carver and gilder (1839). [D] Smiton, Jane, 9 Little Wild St, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, cm (1792). Took out … Successor and possibly widow of: Smiton, Ninien, 9 Little Wild St, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, cm (1786). In February …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… from that which is in Torosay. The bay of Aros, though wild, is marked with features beautifully picturesque, and … farms are inclosed by hedges of thorn interspersed with wild roses, and are separated by good roads bordered on each … by several curious natural caves, frequented by seals and wild-fowl; and the land in every part, both on the north and …