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  Ermine - LoveToKnow 1911
of the temperate and Ermine or Stoat (Putorius ermineus).
The winter coat of the ermine forms one of the most valuable of commercial furs, and is imported in enormous quantities from Norway, Sweden, Russia and Siberia.
the wearing of ermine was restricted to members of the royal family; but it now enters into almost all state robes, the rank and position of the wearer being in many cases indicated by the presence or absence, and the disposition, of the fl spots.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Ermine   (442 words)

  
  Ermine Street - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ermine Street should not be confused with Ermin Street, the road from Silchester to Gloucester.
Ermine Street was the Anglo-Saxon name of a road in England that ran from London to Lincoln (Lindum) and York (Eboracum).
Ermine street used to pass through Durobrivae, the slight remains of which can be seen to the east, alongside the A1.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ermine_Street   (571 words)

  
 Roman Roads
Ermine Street runs due north from London to Braughing, a small and picturesque village 6 miles beyond Ware, from which roads diverge in several directions, making it quite an important junction at that time.
Ermine Street continued its northward course to the Humber in a most impressively undeviating fashion, and at a point a few miles from Lincoln a branch led off north-westward, crossing the River Trent at Littleborough, to give another route to York, through Doncaster, that would avoid the Humber crossing.
Ermine Street crossed the river 1/4 mile west of the town, in a position that, if the route were reconstituted, would provide an ideal line for the by-pass so sorely needed there.
www.biffvernon.freeserve.co.uk /roman_roads.htm   (1437 words)

  
 ERMINE - LoveToKnow Article on ERMINE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The winter coat of the ermine forms one of the most valuable of commercial furs, and is imported in enormous quantities from Norway, Sweden, Russia and Siberia.
It is largely used for muffs and tippets, and as a trimming for state robes, the jet fl points of the tails being inserted at regular intervals as an ornament.
the wearing of ermine was restricted to members of the royal family; but it now enters into almost all state robes, the rank and position of the wearer being in many cases indicated by the presence or absence, and the disposition, of the fl spots.
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 ERMINE STREET - Online Information article about ERMINE STREET
Icknield Street is probably a prehistoric ridgeway along the downs, utilized perhaps by the See also:
Icknield Street is not Roman and the three roads which follow Roman lines, Ermine Street, Watling Street, and Foss, held no See also:
In later times, the names Ermine Street, Icknield Street and Watling Street have been applied to other roads of Roman or" supposed Roman origin.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /EMS_EUD/ERMINE_STREET.html   (551 words)

  
 Towards Ware
Margary considered that the Roman Ermine Street, leading northwards from the Thames crossing, emerged from the eastern side of the original city and then, when the city walls were extended, through a gateway at Bishopsgate.
The line would take Ermine Street through the sports fields west of Great Cambridge Road and it is then picked up by a short stretch of the A105 to Bull's Cross, from which a minor road continues the line, taking the road into Hertfordshire.
Ermine Street kept to high ground, well above the marshes surrounding the River Lea, though, as Ogilby recorded, there were a number of east-flowing brooks and rills to cross.
www.biffvernon.freeserve.co.uk /towards_ware.htm   (1038 words)

  
 Caminos de Santiago - Britain: Ermine Street
Ermine Street was the Saxon name given to the Roman road linking York with London.
On the W side of the river Ancholme, either side of Ermine St S of Appleby, a derelict farm is probably on the site of the small Cistercian nunnery of Gokewell, and the Explorer map marks the scanty remains of Augustinian Thornholme.
From Lincoln, Ermine St heads S and for once is not a main road; the Viking Way follows or shadows it for a considerable distance.
www.peterrobins.co.uk /camino/ermine.html   (1491 words)

  
 Ermine Street: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Watling street was a roman road which went from dover on the southeast coast of england and is generally believed to have terminated at viroconium (now...
Akeman street was a major roman road in england that linked london to the fosse way at cirencester....
Icknield street or ryknild street is a roman road in britain that runs from bourton on the water in oxfordshire where it connected to the fosse...
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/er/ermine_street.htm   (1413 words)

  
 Adwick le Street - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Adwick le Street is a small town in South Yorkshire, England.
It is situated a few miles to the north west of Doncaster, and is within the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster.
The earliest references to the town are found in Domesday Book (1086), and the parish church of St. Lawrence dates from the 12th century.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Adwick_le_Street   (160 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for ermine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
ermine Known as a stoat in Eurasia, or short-tailed weasel in North America.
Ermines are found in North America and northern Eurasia.
(Ermine, Jessica, Ella, and Lurline, daughters of the late Jessie and Joseph Pearson)
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 www.myspace.com/ermine
Like the name, Ermine’s music is hard to peg down, but is best described as post-prog rock, a cleaner, more concise spin on the traditional progressive school of song crafting.
Ermine’s meticulous methodology is evident on their sophomore album The Murra.
Ermine performs regularly around the maritimes, and is currently working on new material for release in 2007.
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 Edmonton: Communications | British History Online
There were probably two Roman roads through Edmonton: Ermine Street, from Bishopsgate, and a route from Cripplegate to Hatfield through Southgate and Chase Side, whose course is uncertain.
62) Fore Street was parallel to the Lea and far enough west to run on gravel rather than the brickearth and alluvium of the river valley but was crossed by four streams which caused great damage to the road surface.
Pymme's brook was still bridged at Fore Street by Angel bridge, a three-arched brick and stone structure built in 1766 by the road trustees (fn.
www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=26932   (3392 words)

  
 ERMINE STREET - LoveToKnow Article on ERMINE STREET   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Icknield Street is probably a prehistoric ridgeway along the downs, utilized perhaps by the Romans near its eastern end, but in general not Roman.
Ermine Street coincides with part of a line of Roman roads leading north from London through Huntingdon to Lincoln.
Watling Street is the Roman highway from London by St Albans (Verulamium) to Wroxeter near Shrewsbury (Viroconium).
www.1911ency.org /E/ER/ERMINE_STREET.htm   (447 words)

  
 Royston Information
These roads are sometimes called military roads as they were prepared or improved by Roman military forces to facilitate their access to the hinterland of Britain.
The exact site of this cross is unknown but it probably stood in the southeastern angle of the roads between the dome of Royston Cave and the line of Ermine Street in the parish of Barkway.
This cave is located underneath the central crossroads of the town where the Icknield Way crosses Ermine Street.
www.bookrags.com /wiki/Royston   (744 words)

  
 Stoke Newington: Communications | British History Online
Ermine Street, the Roman road to Lincoln, (fn.
North of Church Street, Queen Elizabeth's Walk and Edward's Lane probably dated from the early 18th century, although not mentioned by name until 1734 (fn.
99) Ermine Street, from the 14th century onwards, was frequently in a very bad state.
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 Big Roman Dig - They came, they saw... Roman Roads
Ermine Street is an early Roman road started in the first century AD.
After a crossing to Brough (Petvaria) on the northern bank, Ermine street continues as the A1034 to Market Weighton where the A1079 continues the route curving north-west to the fortress settlement and coloniae of York (Eberacum).
Akeman Street is a 78 mile Roman road which goes through Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire as a link between the provincial capital of London (Londinium) and the west country.
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 Ermine — Infoplease.com
This is not correct; Irminsul, or rather Ermensul, is the Scandinavian Odin, not a “Column of Mercury” at all; and Erming Street really means Odin's Street.
ermine - ermine ermine, name for a number of northern species of weasel having white coats in winter, and...
The Blotted Escutcheon and the Soiled Ermine - Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce 2 - The Crimson Candle The Ingenious Patriot - 4 The Blotted...
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 Brickfields - medieval transport
Ermine Street was an important road northwards from the City.
Mare Street was also an important route north and its name probably comes from the Middle English word 'mere' meaning boundary.
The north of Mare Street, the Narrow Way, which ran through the old village of Hackney used to be called Church Street, due to the medieval church that stood there.
www.brickfields.org.uk /text/medieval-transport.html   (440 words)

  
 Ermine - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Ermine, name given to various species of weasel, particularly during the winter season when the fur of individuals inhabiting colder latitudes is...
Ermine Street, Roman road in Britain that extended from Londinium (modern London) northwards to Eboracum (modern York).
Weasel, common name for any of several small, fur-bearing, carnivorous mammals that are most abundant in North America and Europe but also occur in...
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 Huntingdon
The Borough and Town of Huntingdon lies on the Roman Road of Ermine Street.
Ermine Street (which later became known as the Great North Road) running north-west through the town, always formed the main thoroughfare.
On the south side of the crossing of the ancient roads from the south-east and the south-west, and on the north side from the north-east and north-west, converge on Ermine Street and become united to it before reaching the bridge.
www.genuki.org.uk:8080 /big/eng/HUN/Huntingdon   (909 words)

  
 Watling Street: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
Watling Street, the Roman road from Kent to Verulamium...The deviations in the line of Watling Street may, however, have been due to...projections of the known stretches of Watling Street do not actually meet at the Westminster...
Watling Street was plagued by bandits, and pilgrims...
He was forced to cede to them the territory between Watling Street and the Northumbrian border (already occupied partly by Danes), and he succeeded in recapturing it in 944 only because...
www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/101277557   (1545 words)

  
 Chapter Episode <i>to</i> Ermine Street of E by Brewer's Phrase & Fable
Chapter Episode to Ermine Street of E by Brewer's Phrase and Fable
Ermine Street One of the four great public ways made in England by the Romans.
This is not correct; Irminsul, or rather Ermensul, is the Scandinavian Odin, not a "Column of Mercury" at all; and Erming Street really means Odin's Street.
www.bibliomania.com /2/3/255/1170/22616/3.html   (224 words)

  
 ermine - HighBeam Encyclopedia
ermine name for a number of northern species of weasel having white coats in winter, and highly prized for their white fur.
It most commonly refers to the white phase of Mustela erminea, called short-tailed weasel in North America and stoat in the Old World.
The fl-tipped tails are used in the United States as ornament, and in Europe they were used with the ermine of royal robes.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-ermine.html   (109 words)

  
 Ancient Everingham Records email   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Everingham is a small village in Yorkshire, it lies just off the edge of the Ermine Street north of the river Humber.
Ermine Street has been used by all who wish for rapid transport from the north of Britain to the south.
Templars understood this well and hence many of the Templar lands adjoined Ermine Street, it was their main route to London: Everingham village was on Templar lands.
www.everingham.com /family/data2/article007.html   (482 words)

  
 Huntingdon
The Borough and Town of Huntingdon lies on the Roman Road of Ermine Street.
Ermine Street (which later became known as the Great North Road) running north-west through the town, always formed the main thoroughfare.
On the south side of the crossing of the ancient roads from the south-east and the south-west, and on the north side from the north-east and north-west, converge on Ermine Street and become united to it before reaching the bridge.
www.genuki.org.uk /big/eng/HUN/Huntingdon   (909 words)

  
  ROMAN ROADS    (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Watling Street (Dover-London-Chester) may be a corruption of "Vitellina strata", the paved road of Vitellius (called "Guetalin" by the Britons).
Icknield Street or Way (Norfolk-Cornwall) is partly pre-Roman, and may be associated with the Iceni tribe of Norfolk/Suffolk.
Ermine Street (London-Hadrian's Wall) was extended from a pre-Roman road (Colchester-York), and may be called after Old Teutonic "Irmin" (large, mighty).
www.eudesign.com /mnems/romroads.htm   (93 words)

  
 Conington Parish Page
In 1800 there were 270 acres of arable land which, by 1838 had fallen to 250 acres, but by 1888 it had risen again to 290 acres which by 1921 had increased to 600 acres; all this tended to increase the size of the farms.
The somewhat scattered village is on the east side of the A1(M) Motorway, following Ermine Street which became the Great North Road, and lies along Conington Lane which leads to the church and Conington Castle (or Manor House), the most famous owners of which were the Cotton and Heathcote families.
The Crown and Woolpack (formerly, the Woolpack Inn) which was on the Ermine Street is said to have been frequented by the notorious highwayman, Dick Turpin, who died in 1739.
www.genuki.org.uk:8080 /big/eng/HUN/Conington   (1108 words)

  
 Brickfields - roman transport
Ermine Street was the northward road leading to Lincoln, then York.
The reason it veers is probably because it was one of the early Roman roads in London and originally went straight down to meet an earlier Roman pontoon bridge crossing the Thames.
The second road ran from Colchester, the original Roman HQ, to Silchester and crossed Ermine Street at the junction of Old Street and Kingsland Road, bypassing London.
www.brickfields.org.uk /text/roman-transport.html   (353 words)

  
 Buntingford High Street Residents
The Buntingford High Street Residents group was formed at the end of the 1990s as a discussion forum for people living in or near the High Street of this old Hertfordshire market town, to offer a co-ordinated voice when dealing with issues affecting our immediate neighbourhood.
The High Street is very much the centre of our town; unlike some more modern towns it has a good mix of small shops, a few offices and a high proportion of residential accomodation.
Buntingford lies in a shallow valley in the rural north-eastern corner of Hertfordshire, on the A10 London to Cambridge road; the High Street is built over Ermine Street, the road which connected London and York in Roman times.
www.buntingfordhighstreet.org.uk   (544 words)

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