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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in the parish of Wybunbury, union and hundred of Nantwich, S. division of the county of Chester, 2 miles (S. S. E.) from Nantwich; containing 32 inhabitants. It … 406 a. 3 r. 12 p., of a clayey soil. The Grand Trunk canal passes in the vicinity. The tithes have been commuted …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Middle division of the hundred of Dudstone and King's Barton, E. division of the county of Gloucester; containing … hundred of Lackford, W. division of Suffolk, 1 mile (S. E.) from Mildenhall; containing 640 inhabitants, and … the Trent to Walton, at a cost of 7000. The Grand Trunk canal passes through the chapelry; and there is a station on …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Southampton, 18 miles (N. E.) from Winchester, and 45 (W. S. W.) from London, on the great western road; containing … junction of five principal roads, and by the Basingstoke canal, which communicates with the river Wey near its … of Basing and Upper Nately annexed, valued in the king's books at 30. 16. 5.; patrons and appropriators, the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of the hundred of Brixton, E. division of Surrey, 3 miles (S.) from London; containing, with the hamlet of Penge ( which … a silk factory, a pottery for crucibles, and Brunel's machinery for sawing veneers; and along the banks of the … declined since the construction of the Chesterfield canal, and the erection of a bridge over the Trent at …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Bosmere and Claydon, E. division of Suffolk, 3 miles (S. by E.) from Needham-Market; containing 275 inhabitants. … The river Orwell and the Stow-Market and Ipswich canal bound this parish, which comprises 1332 a. 3 r. 19 p., … Stow-Market. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 12. 4. 9., and in the gift of the Rev. J. C. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Another encampment existed on Beanley Moor. Percy's Cross, erected in memory of Sir Ralph Percy, an officer … St. Andrew, union of Hexham, E. division of Tindale ward, S. division of Northumberland, 4 miles (E.) from Corbridge; … is pleasantly situated on the river Eden, and the Carlisle canal passes through the parish. At the hamlet of Sandsfield, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and hundred of Shrivenham, county of Berks, 4 miles (S. W. by S.) from Farringdon; comprising 792 a. 2 r. 25 p., and … large silk power-loom mill on the banks of the Bridgewater canal, established in 1844, and in connexion with which they …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… with Bedminster, E. division of Somerset, 1 mile (S. by W.) from Bristol; containing, with the tythings of … vicarage, with the perpetual curacies of St. Mary's and St. Thomas' Redcliffe and Abbot's-Leigh annexed, valued … and stretch towards Salisbury Plain. The Kennet and Avon canal passes through the parish, and affords a medium for the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a silty clay. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 13. 10. 2., and in the patronage of the Crown: the … of Nantwich, First division of the hundred of Eddisbury, S. division of the county of Chester, 3 miles (S. S. W.) from … from Beeston to Nottingham, joining the Nottingham canal at Lenton; and the Midland railway runs through the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… civil parish of Much Wenlock. 85 To the south Benthall's boundary followed the Wenlock-Broseley road before swinging … and then east to follow the northern boundary of Willey's medieval park. 86 Most of the parish is fairly flat, lying … is apparently alluded to in some way by Benthall's name, meaning 'bent-grass nook'. 88 Much of the centre of …