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A History of the County of Rutland
… land. Ranksborough Hill in the west of the parish rises to a height of 626 ft., and the land falls from it in a southeasterly and easterly direction about 200 ft. to the … who was formerly curat of this Town.' The cup is by Ralph Leeke, of London; the flagon bears the maker's mark I.L. …
A History of the County of Warwick
… between the two towns lies the village of Leek Wootton, on a slight hill with the church at its highest point. The … 18th century, of brick with tiled roofs, though there are a few of slightly earlier date, timberframed and thatched. A little north of the church a road runs east to the hamlet …
A History of the County of Bedford
… and south-east of Leighton Buzzard, the soil is clay or a mixture of sand, clay and marl with a subsoil of clay, and the crops are wheat, barley, beans and … kt., by his will, appointed a messuage situated in the Leeke End and a piece of sward ground to the bailiff and …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… the Saxon Leccian, to water, or moisten, which is done by a small Brook in this Place to both the Hamlets, or … or West-Leak. On the north Side of this Lordship, on a Knoll, called Court-Hill, near the Bounds of Gotham, about a flight Shot from Cuckoo-Bush, the Hundred Court hath been …
A History of the County of Warwick
… 1,379. Population: 1911, 1,641; 1921, 1,715; 1931, 2,299. A great part of the ancient civil parish of Lillington, … &c., have been found. 2 They are capped in these pits by a boulder clay containing travelled blocks of rocks from … Stoneleigh Road and the Blackdown district. Some years ago a Neolithic interment and settlement were discovered here …
A History of the County of Warwick
… to meet and follow the River Anker once more for about a mile. The boundary crossed the Coventry Canal and reached … from Nuneaton, and running parallel with this road for a short distance, through the colliery village of Chapel End … of the old parish. Next the boundary turned north-west up a small stream till it reached Ridge Lane, 4 on the eastern …
A History of the County of Somerset
… some more or less modified. To the north-east are a ditch known in 1517 as la Rydde and a channel of the Sheppey river known as the Ashenrhyne. 3 The … Coleshill of London. 114 In 1601 Mary, wife of Jasper Leeke, and Susan, wife of Edward Stanhope, daughters of …
A History of the County of Warwick
… 17th century contained only the manor-house. 6 This was a stone building, apparently medieval in origin, retaining in 1835 'a pointed arch towards the court' and in the back kitchen 'remains of a gothic window'; there was an oak staircase up to a wide …
A History of the County of Somerset
… lies immediately southeast of Crewkerne, its name, a contraction of 'Minsterton', indicating its former … on the main road to Dorchester. It has an area of 1,361 a. and extends for 2 miles from NE. to SW. and up to 1 mile … South Perrott and Mosterton (both Dors.) are formed by a tributary of the same river known at successive points …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… the Land belonging to it, though Stow was accounted but a Cell of Eynesham, to which Bishop Robert, the Successor of … to be of older date, and therefore might possibly be but a re-edifying or repairing it, as may by some of the gifts of … the dwelling Houses, and twenty Acres in the Heath, and a dwelling House which the Church of Newerc had before, with …