Source/Archive record SCH2066 - Magna Britannia

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Type Book
Title Magna Britannia
Author/Originator
Date/Year 1806-22

Abstract/Summary

Magna Britannia, being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain (to give its full title) was an ambitious topographical and historical survey published by the antiquarians Daniel Lysons and his brother Samuel Lysons in several volumes between 1806 and 1822. It covers the counties of Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cornwall, Cumberland, Derbyshire, and Devon. The work was curtailed in 1819 on Samuel Lysons' death.

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Description

Text downloaded for Vol II from Archive.org website and is now out of copyright. Volume originally included section for Cambridgeshire, this has been removed. No contents page. General index at the end of the document and starts from indexed page 865.

Location

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Referenced Monuments (30)

  • Abbey of St Werburgh - Abbot's Lodgings (Building)
  • Abbey of St Werburgh - Court of St Thomas (Monument)
  • Abbey of St Werburgh - Great Court (Abbey Courtyard) (Monument)
  • Abbey of St Werburgh - Water Supply (Monument)
  • Abbeyfield (Building)
  • Arch from St Mary's Priory, Relocated to Grosvenor Park (Monument)
  • Chorley Old Hall (Building)
  • Collegiate Church of St John the Baptist - Hermitage / Anchorite Cells (Building)
  • Darley Hall moated site (Monument)
  • Demolition Layer and Stone Robbing of Former Benedictine Nunnery (Monument)
  • Dodleston Hall moated site (Monument)
  • Foxtwist Moated Site, two fishponds and connecting channels. (Monument)
  • Hulme Hall moated site (Building)
  • Huntington Hall Moated Site (Monument)
  • Iddinshall (Monument)
  • Iddinshall Hall and Moat (Monument)
  • King Street - Middlewich to Chesterton Section (Monument)
  • Lower Huxley Hall (Building)
  • Medieval monastic grange, Marton Hall Farm (Monument)
  • Moat south of Bostock Hall (Monument)
  • Moorsbarrow Hall (Monument)
  • Parme Farm (Building)
  • Peel Hall moated site, Kingsley (Monument)
  • Post Dissolution Use of Former Benedictine Nunnery (Monument)
  • Roman architectural fragment from Newgate Street (Find Spot)
  • Roman Finds, Outer Bailey, Chester Castle (Find Spot)
  • Site of Moated Manor House (Monument)
  • St Mary's Priory (Benedictine Nunnery) (Monument)
  • Stanthorne Hall (Building)
  • Walled Garden and site Townsend House, Welsh Row (Building)

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Record last edited

Apr 5 2024 11:57AM