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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… been rebuilt. Broomhill Bridge, see Moreton, Monument (4). Railway Station, and Gatekeepers' Cottages at Bailey's Drove …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… 1 and in a tithe dispute in 1694 it was settled that the great tithes should be paid to the incumbent as rector. 2 The … in 1718 against two parishioners for failing to pay great tithes, on the evidence that he had been instituted as … of the tower. The south aisle was formed in 1829 when its western half was built to fill the space between the south …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Grange. 28 None of the other freehold farms was of any great size. In the late 17th and 18th centuries the only open … In 1870 it was owned by the Gloucestershire Paper Making Co. Ltd., and in 1876 by the trustees of James Randle, 94 … Laurence was a contractor for the Avonmouth docks and railway. The lease expired in 1876 and the quarry went out of …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… of 1,110 in 1851, perhaps partly due to the presence of railway navvies in the district that year. The population … after the building of a bridge c. 1876 for the mineral railway from the Tintern wire-works to the Wye Valley line. … shaft of earlier date has survived at the south end. The railway from Gloucester to South Wales, which passes through …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… within Twyford hundred. 6 Unlike other estates of the great thegn the manor of Woolaston probably never belonged to …
A History of the County of Somerset
… 5 lies on the northern slope of the Polden ridge near its western end. It is 6 km. northwest of Bridgwater. The ancient … line to her son John Ayshford, her grandson William, her great grandson John, and her great great grandson William … Rec. S.R.O., A/AQP 35. Ibid. D/P/wool 4/1/1; Morris & Co. Dir. Som. (1872); Proc. Som. Arch. Soc. lxxxii. 111. W.I. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… the River Rother, which with a tributary stream forms the western boundary of the parish for about 2 miles. The … The tower, of 1728, has diagonal buttresses at both western corners. In the west wall was, till 1870, a window of … is now in the north window of the chancel, and part in the western window in the south wall of the nave. An angel flying …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… extended E. and the South Porch added. The church is of no great architectural interest, but among the fittings the … orders; it was re-built early in the 14th-century; the western arch is semi-circular and of two plain orders, partly … except for the mid 14th-century jambs and splays; the western window is of the 14th century, partly restored, and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… with moulded capitals and bases, between the bays; the two western bays have each a partly restored window of two … a two-centred head with a moulded label; the label of the western window has mask-stops. The S. wall has a wall-arcade … eastern of one lancetlight with a moulded label and the western a mid 14th-century window of two trefoiled ogee …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a tything, in the union of Chard, hundred of Crewkerne, Western division of Somerset; containing 71 inhabitants. … vein of brick-earth, and the white bricks made here are in great estimation. One of the largest horse-fairs in England … the distance is traversed in about ten minutes by the railway. Hulks are moored off Woolwich, for convicts whose …