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A History of the County of Stafford
… times, more particularly on the escarpment of the eastern ridge in the direction of the Potteries. The land to the … turned southward and then westward at the end of the hill ridge between the two towns, and finally followed a northward …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 12
… probably took the second element of its name from the low ridge rising west of that brook. Originating as a separate … footpath but near the town, where it climbs a low ridge to the place called Bury Bar, it forms a deep hollow …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 12
… singlespan king-post trusses, four pairs of purlins, no ridge piece, scissor bracing between king posts, and …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 12
… evidently named from a gate standing at the top of a low ridge 10 that runs south of the town, roughly parallel with Church Street. Possibly that ridge was itself the 'Bury' which gave its name to gate and … long plots running back from the street to the top of the ridge behind are the only ones in Newent resembling the …
Newington (Including Berrick Prior, Britwell Prior, Brookhampton, Holcombe)
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… in the south, where ancient woods at Shambridge ('sandy ridge') occupy hilltops capped with clay-with-flints. …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… valley formerly called Ashridge Slade. A high wooded ridge, called Ashridge in 1608 66 but later Astridge, divides … In Highbury wood, where it follows the top of the ridge and is lined by ancient yew trees, the dyke is a …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… except towards the N. where the land rises to a N.W.-S.E. ridge of Northampton Sand about 200 m. above OD. The village … (SP 569599), in the W. of the parish, on the crest of a ridge of Middle Lias Clay at 135 m. above OD. Roman pottery, … valley bottom to the E. and returns N. along the adjacent ridge. It crosses the valley again, joining the N. end of the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… to have originated in a ford over the Severn, formed by a ridge of rocks and a sandbank, the shifting of which latter, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… tie-beam is moulded and the others are chamfered; the ridge, purlins, and wall-plates are partly moulded and partly … has a low gabled roof with a 15th-century chamfered ridge. Fittings Bells: six; 2nd by Miles Graye, 1620; 3rd …
Survey of London
… a bracketed Chinese roof, finished with tiles and dragon ridge ornaments. Above this is a large oblong panel, covering …