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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of figuring the battle of Blenheim, by plantations of trees, now in full vigour. The living is a rectory, valued in …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… of the red oak, Quercus robur, and others stripped from trees at the age of nine to fifteen years' [Collins (1877)]. … 1 Jacobi' [Houghton] and the best tan bark was taken from trees felled at an older age. It was thus one of the many …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… which is found oak, elder, and various other kinds of trees. The river Douglas, which passes on the east, was …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… a terraced lawn between two octagonal mounds crowned with trees; to E. and W. were walled gardens. On the S. the … flower beds, flanked to E. and W. by rectangular groves of trees; further W. lay another walled garden. The formal … appears without regular form on O.S., 1811. Some of the trees were 'removed hither some miles off after fifty years …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… and it has been much disturbed by tracks and roads and by trees growing on it. The bank is 12 ft. across and up to 1 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… acres of woodland, containing a vast quantity of fine oak-trees. A quarry of good freestone is worked: here was …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… a naked heath of nine hundred acres) was furnished with trees and underwood; of which indeed, by old accounts of …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Rochester, &c. that the abbot had encroached and planted trees on the bank of the river, making it a several fishery, …