| John Leland - Great Britain - 1744 - 202 pages
...is very foule to travaile in. I pafled over a. or 3. fmall Lakes betwixt Chlltenham and Gloucefter, and they refort to Severne. The Towne of Gloucefter...with Walles, where it is not well fortified with the deepeStreame of Severne Water. In the Wall be 4. Gates by Eaft, Weft, North and South, and foe beare... | |
| John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1803 - 886 pages
...nineteenth of Edward the Third. Lcland describes Glocesler as " well buildtd of tyrabre, and strongly defended with walles, where it is not well fortified with the deepe sÃrcame of Severn water.'" The walls were completely demolished soon after the Restoration ; and the... | |
| Caroline Litzenberger - History - 2002 - 246 pages
...p. 262; J. Thirsk, 'The Farming Regions of England', p. 68. 14 TS Willan, Inland Trade, pp. 19-20. not well fortified with the deepe streame of Severne water. In the wall be 4. gates by east, west, north and south . . . [However,] the beauty of the towne lyeth in 2. Crossing streets.'15... | |
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