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Magna Britannia
… Swarkston Sandiacre SANDIACRE, in the hundred of Morleston and Litchurch and in the deanery of Derby, lies about nine miles and a half from Derby, on the borders of Nottinghamshire, and …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… 520 acres, of which more than half are pasture, woodland and arable being nearly equally divided. 1 The mansion known … end of the house; it is about 41 ft. by 20 ft., lies east and west, and is said to have been the chapel. There is no external …
A History of the County of Hertford
… Parishes Sarratt SARRATT Syret (x cent.); Syreth (xi and xii cent.); Seret (xiii cent.); Saret, Sarett and Sarette (xv cent.); Sarrett (xvi and xvii cent.). Sarratt is a small parish of only 1,540 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Sawston SAWSTON Sawston lies 7 miles south of Cambridge, and is notable as one of the very few industrial villages in the county. The parish covers 1,898 a., and is compact but irregular in shape; its western boundary … follows the former course of the river Cam or Granta and part of its northern boundary follows the river Granta, …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… cent.). This parish is composed of the townships of Seamer and Irton and the chapelry of East Ayton. Its area is 8,450 acres, of … water, 4,422 acres are arable, 2,178 acres permanent grass and 738 woodland. 1 The subsoil is Alluvium, Oxford Clay, …
A History of the County of Somerset
… St. Michael occupies 286 a. of the fertile Yeovil and Pennard sands in the undulating country south-west of … to 215 ft. at Gummer's Castle 2 near the eastern boundary, and falling away gently northwards and more abruptly to the … MS. 97, f. 122. S.R.O., D/D/Ca 151. Walker Revised ed. Matthews. D.N.B. Ibid., sub James Upton; S.R.O., D/D/V Dioc. …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… boundary with Dorset 5 km. north of Shaftesbury and measured 480 ha. (1,185 a.). 2 It is entirely on Kimmeridge Clay, land most suitable for meadow and pasture. 3 There has never been much ploughing and no … transcripts. W.A.M. vii. 296. Calamy Revised, ed. A. G. Matthews, 558. W.R.O., D 1/43/6, f. 6. Ibid. D 1/54/1; D …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… The lands of Semley parish, 21 km. west of Salisbury and adjoining Dorset, are detached from the other parishes of Chalke hundred and lie north-west of them in the Vale of Wardour. 1 They … D 1/43/1; D 1/43/4; D 1/43/6. Walker Revised, ed. A. G. Matthews, 376. Hoare, Mod. Wilts. Chalke, 42. Walker Revised, …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… SEVENOKE. NEXT southward from Seale lies the parish and town of SEVENOKE, called, in the Textus Roffensis, … SENNOCK. THE PARISH of Sevenoke is situated partly above and partly below the great ridge of sand hills which runs across this county, and divides the upland from the Weald or southern district of …
A History of the County of Bedford
… an area of 2,467 acres, of which 853 acres are arable land and 1,305 acres permanent grass. 2 The parish is watered by … 143 ft. in the south. The soil is clay, the subsoil clay and gravel, the principal crops being wheat, barley, oats, peas, beans and turnips. Sharnbrook Church from the South-east Sharnbrook …