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"text": "1836, Account of the Old Bridge at Stratford-le-Bow in Essex from Alfred Burges, Esq. addressed to Sir Henry Ellis https://archive.org/details/archaeologiaorm01londgoog\n. . .the passage over the water of the Luye at Stratford atte Bowe, anciently used to be in a certain place which is called the Old Forde, which is distant from the place where the bridges and causeway now are nearly one mile, at which passage many persons passing over it at divers times were drowned, and in great danger, and when after so much danger came to the knowledge of Lady Matilda, Queen of England […]"
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"ref": "1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications, page 58:",
"text": "Throughout the parish are ancient causeways paved with irregular slabs of local marble, and in some places the outline of the fossils of small snails can be seen in the stone. The causeways were laid as hard paths for heavily laden pack-animals bringing in wool from outlying hamlets and farms.",
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"sense": "raised roadway",
"word": "堤道"
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"alt": "どてみち",
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"word": "calzada elevada"
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"causeway"
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"ref": "1873, The Scottish Jurist, volume 45, Alexander Dennistoun and Others, Pursuers, v. John Thomson, Defender:",
"text": "In thus limiting his judgment, I understand that he has not pronounced any opinion in regard to the formation and causewaying of streets […]",
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"ref": "1878 December 13, The British Architect: A Journal of Architecture and the Accessory Arts, volume 10, number 24, page 235:",
"text": "The Glasgow Town Council decided at their last meeting to causeway the following streets at the respective costs given […]",
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"ref": "1879, “The Kinning Park proprietors v. the police commissioners of Kinning Park.”, in The Journal of Jurisprudence, volume 23, page 556:",
"text": "There had been a previous partial allocation, but the final allocation was made in 1875; and the whole sums payable by the owners of the streets for paving and causewaying them, as resolved upon by the Commissioners, have been duly paid.",
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