The eighteenth century architecture of Bath (1904)
Green, Mowbray A. (Mowbray Aston) · Bath, G. Gregory · leaf 216
CHAPTER VI. PRIOR PARK. ’^Development WHEN, about the year 1727, the river had been made fit for of Combe Down Stone navigation, Ralph Allen purchased some of the quarries Quarries. on Combe Down that he might export the freestone in block. He then set himself to improve the means of transport…
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