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A History of the County of Huntingdon
… wheat, barley and root crops. The village lies on the main road from St. Neots to Godmanchester and is two and a half …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… ordnance datum is only 3 ft. 6 in., to 129 ft. at Top Road in the southwest corner of the parish. The greater part … in which there is no church, is built along a branch road to Wood Walton. At the south-east end on the top of the … now much modernised. Near here, facing the Huntingdon Road, is the pound. Lower down are the Methodist Chapel and …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Lias, and is thus provided with wells and springs. The road from Bourtonon-the-Water to Great Barrington runs … stand close to each other 400 yards south-west from the road. This group of buildings, including the rectory and … then north-east up the hill to a triangular green on the road through the village: this, the Upper Green, is one of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… north-eastern boundary, part of the Cambridge-Colchester road, was rebuilt in 1709. 14 The Cambridge-Haverhill (Suff.) road runs south-east across the northern corner of the parish … and disturnpiked in 1876. 16 The Cambridge-Chesterford road, running from Trumpington through Great Shelford village …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… occupying the highest point. Approaching by the wide main road from Northallerton, 7 miles to the south, the road makes its first sharp turn on entering the village, … red brick house. The houses are closely grouped round the road on each side of the churchyard and are of brick or …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… was redefined as a straight line west of it. 6 Elsewhere a road and a stream mark short stretches, but most of the west … ploughed. 8 The parish is well served by lanes but no main road crosses it. The road between Little Somerford and Sutton Benger links Great …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… has grown up as a roadside settlement along the main road from St. Neots to Kimbolton. The village street here has … century as Staughton Highway. 1 At its eastern end the road crosses the River Kym by a bridge which was in the early … Inn, on the north side, has a gable projecting towards the road and a way for carriages to the yard behind under a …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… village lies on both sides of Ermine Street, the Roman road, which crosses the parish on its way from Peterborough …
A History of the County of Oxford
… been ecclesiastically dependent on Great Tew, since the road running westwards out of Duns Tew was called Churchway. … thickly wooded as a result of 19th-century planting. The road on the northern perimeter was the Deddington to Chipping Norton road, turnpiked in 1770 and disturnpiked in 1871; 6 in 1774 …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Tewkesbury and six miles from Evesham, and south of the road between them, was in 1935 merged in the civil parish of … in shape, with a projection reaching north-west to the road from Tewkesbury to Evesham which formed part of the boundary. South from that road the boundary of the parish followed the post-1931 county …