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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… south-eastwards, from north-west of the CambridgeNewmarket road to the Suffolk boundary. The boundaries of the … 1806, it was futher straightened as far south-east as the road to Stetchworth, 48 a. being ceded to Stetchworth under … 1971. 25 The village stands in the middle of the parish. A road south from Newmarket towards Linton divides at the …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… the ordnance datum in the east of the parish. The main road from Winchester to Basingstoke, leaving the high ground … Three-quarters of a mile north of the Wheat Sheaf Inn a road from North Waltham runs across the main road, and goes east to the village of Dummer, between banks …
A History of the County of Warwick
… Cawston, and Toft, is a large village situated on the main road from London to Coventry and Birmingham, where it is … the 18th century, but a short distance along the Rugby road there is a small group of timber-framed houses with … residences, formerly a Church School built in 1707. At the road junction there is a cross with a square tapered shaft …
A History of the County of Oxford
… with North Aston partly follows the Oxford-Banbury road (an ancient ridgeway) and a small stream known in the … North Aston, Middle Aston, and Steeple Barton. The road west was known in the 15th century and probably earlier … crossed the parish boundary at Ilbury Bridge. 6 The Barton road, also known as Woodway, was probably part of a way into …
A History of the County of Bedford
… (xiixv cent.). Dunstable is a municipal borough on the old road from London to Chester and Holyhead, from the former of … through the parish. The Watling Street, the Roman military road, runs from north-east to south-west, and the possibly … Mr. Worthington Smith has found traces of another British road, the precursor, as he suggests, of the Roman Watling …
A History of the County of Bedford
… districts, the remainder is devoted to agriculture. The road from Edworth, which enters Dunton from the south, is … it reaches the parish boundary. Some distance off the road on the east lies Millowbury Farm, and a little further … At Millow Hall Farm, still on the same side of the road, a branch road leads down to Dunton Lodge in the …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… for the parish the nickname 'Dirty Durley.' The only road of any size or definite direction is Durley Street, … it dips sharply to meet the new Waltham to Winchester road at the foot of Wintershill. Along Durley Street, between … apart. At a short distance to the east of the school, a road turns southwards to a group of newer-looking houses and …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… is bounded by the Avon on the west and a long and straight road across downland on the east: an estate in the south part … of Great Durnford was used for an airfield. 8 The road on the parish's east boundary was the main road from Chipping Campden (Glos.) via Marlborough to …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… one east-west and one north-south. The BulfordShrewton road, called Packway by c. 1555, was from the 17th century or earlier to the 19th part of a LondonWarminster road via Marlborough; 13 between Bulford bridge and Lark Hill … in 1761, disturnpiked in 1871. The UpavonAmesbury road, called Netheravon Road across Durrington parish, was …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… it is bounded by the river, on the north-west by a modern road following the line of a branch of the Icknield Way; 4 on … itself stands where the river approaches nearest to the road running along its left bank. On the land between road and river there stood in the Middle Ages four …