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A History of the County of Middlesex
… in the parish, and the nearest stations are at Staines, 2½ miles to the north-west, and at Shepperton, 2½ miles to the east. The main road from Staines to Kingston …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… portion is roughly triangular in shape, the base about 2 miles long, lying along the road from Staines to Kingston, … apex. The southern part is a mere slip of land about 1½ miles long and nowhere more than half a mile wide, which runs … the parish, the nearest station being at Shepperton, 1½ miles. A road from Feltham passes through the village from …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Bolingbroke, parts of Lindsey, county of Lincoln, 31 miles (E.) from Lincoln, and 133 (N.) from London; … by Boston deeps and the North Sea; and is within twelve miles of Skegness, on the best part of the Lincolnshire … N. division of Bambrough ward and of Northumberland, 3 miles (E. by S.) from Belford; containing 151 inhabitants. It …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 32 price'. 36 The plates were run for in three heats of 4 miles each, followed by a 'course' run off between the … 15 minutes, and won. 45 The usual distance for races was 4 miles, though matches over 6 and even 8 miles were not uncommon. 46 At the closing stages of the race …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Brake lies well within their country, being only some four miles from the kennels, while the education of the cubs … had hounds stopped, all being by this time many miles from home, while the hunthorses had long since had … in this fine old-fashioned run was little short of 16 miles; the line was over grass the entire time, and not a …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… of the Mendip Hills, is another tributary, which for a few miles forms the western boundary of Wiltshire. As would be … as the Box Brook. From Castle Combe down to Box are twelve miles of very good fly water, mostly in private hands. As the … to the 'drowners' from all the farms on its ten miles of water. These entertainments continued until within a …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… and has thus provided thousands of anglers with twenty miles of free water, which furnishes perhaps the finest … Luton in Bedfordshire, and flows east-south-east for 10 miles into Hertfordshire and for 16 miles by Hertford to Ware. Thence it flows for 4 miles …