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A History of the County of Chester
… fairground in front of the abbey gate or in the adjoining street; the mayor and citizens asserted that they could buy … piepowder court, and in 1484 after a scuffle in Northgate Street during the Midsummer fair the mayor ordered the city … and in 1705 that fair was moved to a new site in Foregate Street. 23 It was probably an occasion for the sale of other …
A History of the County of Chester
… in the broad space forming the northern end of Bridge Street and the westernmost part of Eastgate Street. 5 The area was called a forum in the early 12th … evidently incorporated the northwestern corner of Eastgate Street opposite St. Peter's, in the 11th century apparently …
A History of the County of Chester
… he was the tenant of all the abbot's holdings in Bridge Street 178 and in the 1290s also acquired extensive holdings … V.C.H. Ches. v (1), Topography, 9001914: Later Medieval (Street Plan within the Walls). Ct. R. Ruthin, 42, 50. Ibid. …
A History of the County of Chester
… The figure included residents of Handbridge and Foregate Street as well as people living within the walls, but … abandoning the city centre, especially Lower Bridge Street, in the later 18th century, 21 but the discrepancy for …
A History of the County of Chester
… Their stations, near one another and reached along Brook Street, were wooden shacks and converted houses, including … Stephenson proposed a route leading west from Brook Street, with a tunnel under Upper Northgate Street, the line then emerging to bridge the canal, cut …
A History of the County of Chester
… A direct line took it to Wroxeter (Salop.) on Watling Street and thus to London. In Cheshire the few lengths … road ran the length of Sealand from the end of New Crane Street in Chester to the Lower King's Ferry (later … Northgate and turned right along Bag Lane (later George Street), 60 but later the route went from the Eastgate along …
A History of the County of Chester
… and a new road from the Watergate, later called New Crane Street. 55 By 1781 New Crane Wharf was lined with the … defensive ditch. 72 The cutting was spanned by Northgate Street bridge and from 1793 by a narrow stone footbridge, … eastwards across the fields and gardens north of Foregate Street and Boughton, beginning a steady climb to Nantwich at …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… under different parts of the town, one of which, from Lime-street, is 2000 yards long, another, passing from Wapping, 2216 yards in length, and the third, from Crown-street, 290 yards. It contains two engine-houses (in each of … bridge near the entrance to the village. Of the principal street, the western side is in the parish of Little Stanmore, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Middlesex
… around the top of Brockley Hill, just where the Watling Street's course turns northerly to N.N.W. The remarks of … standeth east of a regall auncient high way called Watling-street or via consularis." Camden ( Britannia, ed. Gough, 4th … Almshouses, four tenements, on the E. side of Watling Street, 825 yards N.W. of the church, form a block of one …
The Environs of London
… Edgware lies upon the road (the ancient Watling-street) to St. Alban's, at the distance of about eight miles … Whitchurch. All the houses which form the west side of the street on the high-road, are in the latter parish. Extent, …