Medieval England, Volume 1Austin Lane Poole Clarendon Press, 1958 - 661 pages Volume 1 looks at the English countryside, domestic and military architecture, warefare, shipping, communications, towns & trade, coinage, clothing, arms & armor, and heraldry. |
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Page 52
... streets today . Contrary to what might be expected , those which were of Roman foundation were not usually those whose streets were straightest or most regularly spaced , for many of them had been almost , if not wholly , depopulated ...
... streets today . Contrary to what might be expected , those which were of Roman foundation were not usually those whose streets were straightest or most regularly spaced , for many of them had been almost , if not wholly , depopulated ...
Page 64
... streets and blocks . " Elsewhere — as at Ludlow and Salisbury and Win chelsea - the evidence of planning is undeniable , but it is not necessary to seek a Roman precedent for the simple pattern of intersecting streets which appealed so ...
... streets and blocks . " Elsewhere — as at Ludlow and Salisbury and Win chelsea - the evidence of planning is undeniable , but it is not necessary to seek a Roman precedent for the simple pattern of intersecting streets which appealed so ...
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... Street or ' Briggate ' in 1207 , away from the ancient parish church and the peasants ' cottages of the then agricultural ... Streets , if there were more than one , were laid out chess - board fashion , as regularly as in any Roman city ...
... Street or ' Briggate ' in 1207 , away from the ancient parish church and the peasants ' cottages of the then agricultural ... Streets , if there were more than one , were laid out chess - board fashion , as regularly as in any Roman city ...
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in Economic History in the University of Oxford | 1 |
land and Fen 1417 4 The Moorlands 1819 5 The Monastic | 7 |
DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE AND TOWNPLAN | 37 |
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