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  • ...y light became necessary owing to the constant accretion of shingle on the east side of the spit (an ongoing problem on this cuspate foreland), which gradu ...ws lower in the tower, indicating hazards and safe water both to the north-east and the south-west. Lit by incandescent mineral oil, it was claimed to be t
    21 KB (3,241 words) - 08:26, 15 September 2023
  • ...h through the area, and Fernhill Road (formerly Fernhill Lane) runs west–east and connects it to Balcombe Road. Gatwick Airport is a mile and a half to t ...Edgeworth House and Wing House. They are attached to each other at right-angles but are of different dates: Edgeworth House (a four-bay timber-framed hall
    9 KB (1,212 words) - 12:32, 30 January 2024
  • ...ason's hands 700 years ago. There was only just a little weathering of the angles. A simple block of sandstone ... now it lies in fragments ... scattered her ...scription |date=6 May 1910 |page=16 col.1,2}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=East Lancashire Territorials |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/view
    18 KB (2,548 words) - 13:48, 7 February 2024
  • ...(Blackhall) on the west, and a tenement of the Prioress of Studley on the east. In the deed by which Elias de Hertford sells it to John de Dokelynton in 1 ...New College Lane was known as Hammer Hall Lane (named after a hall to the east, as [[New College, Oxford|New College]] had not then been founded), and its
    27 KB (4,350 words) - 22:00, 14 March 2024
  • ...y.<ref name=Neale /> The fantail consists of six wooden vanes set at right-angles to the sails, and has the year 1799 carved on the horizontal wooden beam be The steam engine was located in a brick building built against the north-east side of the windmill, and drove two pairs of millstones, a centrifugal gove
    9 KB (1,487 words) - 23:09, 24 June 2024

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