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Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… on 7 April 1779, and admitted freeman of the Upholders Co. by servitude on 3 May 1786. Took app. named Thomas Oakey, … furniture. Listed are: Turned frames for a couch and a great chair. 9 high stools and a low stool with crimson … 4 December 1776. [GL, Upholders Co. records] Young, Peter, Great Lumley, Co. Durham, joiner and cm (182728). [D] Young, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of grain. Here is a station of the Brighton and Portsmouth railway, ten miles from the Worthing station, and eight from … 11.; impropriators, Inigo Thomas, Esq., and others. The great tithes have been commuted for 617, and the vicarial for … February, 1758, after a sudden thaw, the waters from the western hills rushed down with resistless violence, …
Alumni Oxonienses
… college lecturer on moral philosophy; vicar of Willoughby, co. Warwick, 1701-9, rector of Sopworth, Wilts, 1710, and of … 1654-5, M.A. 12 Nov., 1657, as Yate, perhaps rector of Great Hampden, Bucks, 1663; father of John 1690. See Foster's … 17 Dec., 1699, aged 17, B.A. 1703, M.A. 1706; rector of Great Hampden, Bucks; brother of Thomas 1700. See Rawl. iii. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
… the range has a wide segmental arch at each end, of no great age. The roof, towards the E. end is original and has … built late in the 17th or early in the 18th century. a(9). Railway Cottages, house 30 yards W. of (8), was built early … roughly circular enclosure of about acre, defended, on its western half, by three ramparts with two medial ditches. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… centred in Barnham, were added to Yapton, while the north-western tip of Yapton was transferred to Barnham and a larger … which once flowed west and east. 3 A pond called the great pond 4 and later Greens pond formerly lay across the … described the area by c. 1813. 35 Four cottages near the railway were built by the railway company. 36 More houses …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Ireland than on the mainland, wool and spinning were, so western parts of England could obtain wool and yarn …
A History of the County of Somerset
… the river Cam in the south-east; parts of the eastern and western boundaries are marked by roads. 74 The boundaries of … measures 487 ha. (1,203 a.). 76 The parish lies on the western side of hills forming the watershed between the … 25. Ibid. D/D/Va 1840, 1843; DD/WR 12; Harrison, Harrod, & Co., Dir. Som. (1859). P.O. Dir. Som. (1866, 1875); P.R.O., …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 26 Repairs were made in the early 17th century to the 'great bell' and to the saunce. A new bell, made at the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of Pixey mead was sold for the construction of the Oxford western bypass, completed in 1961. The gradual acquisition of … 5 A few jobs were provided by the tollgate and the railway crossings, but the 13 railway labourers recorded in 1851 were temporarily resident. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… towards Kidlington; the dog-leg in Sandy Lane west of the railway predates the line. 69 The canal bridge, near the … the southern tip of the parish. The Oxford-Birmingham railway was opened in 1852 with level crossings in Kidlington … Rutten Lane divided to run each side of the green, the western arm being known as Little Lane, and there seems once …