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A History of the County of Warwick
… and an irregularly-shaped projection north of Walsgrave Road to higher ground at Barras Heath and Stoke Heath. The … the end of Far Gosford Street at Gosford Green Walsgrave Road runs north-east across this area towards Leicester and Binley Road east towards Rugby. In the north-west the Coventry Canal …
A History of the County of Warwick
… it to the Sowe, formed part of the western boundary. The road from Coventry to Leicester enters the former parish at Clifford Bridge and as Hinckley or Ansty Road runs north-east towards Ansty. The village stands at the junction of this road with that called Lenton's Lane and Woodway Lane, which …
A History of the County of Warwick
… the boundary lay several hundred yards west of London Road and on the north-east roughly along the line of the … Willenhall Wood in the centre of the former parish. London Road enters the former parish from Ryton on Dunsmore by Ryton … here called Stonebridge Highway, branches from London Road at Tollbar End on the former parish boundary. St. James …
A History of the County of Warwick
… House, the former Craven Colliery, and part of Henley Road. The Caludon estate stretched from the River Sowe, south … 14th century marked the boundary with Foleshill. 95 Ansty Road runs north-eastwards from Coventry towards Leicester … the River Sowe at Clifford Bridge. Clifford Bridge Road runs south from this bridge towards Binley, and crosses …
A History of the County of Durham
… and Elvet, at the foot of Elvet Bridge, along the road from Darlington and the south. Although the city still … the church of St. Mary-the-Less. Beyond this point the road turns to the westward and descends sharply to Prebend's … After crossing Framwellgate Bridge from Silver Street the road divides into three branches: Crossgate, which runs …
A History of the County of Durham
… Pilgrimage of Grace had hit hard. A horseman on the London road said to a man of Durham: 95 'Is there none that grudgeth …
A History of the County of Durham
… it rested at White Smocks, 132 an inn on the direct road from Darlington to Newcastle. Local tradition preserved … to Durham, and from Durham to Newcastle, was put on the road, but the roads were bad, and the scheme did not pay. A … meeting in Durham proposed the construction of a new road from Framwellgate bridge towards Dryburn. The immediate …
A History of the County of Durham
… a street with houses on the western side abutting on the road on the one side and on the castle wall on the other. … stood at the point where Sidegate diverges from the old road to Newcastle. On the right bank of the river the … now covered over most of its length by the modern North Road. From Elvet Barony it was divided by the small stream …
A History of the County of Durham
… the Milburn, which now runs in a culvert under the North Road, flows into the Wear. Formerly its waters were used to … may possibly account for the tradition that a Roman road crossed the river near Old Durham. See 'On the Wear and …
A History of the County of Durham
… This in turn drew its supply from the spring on the south road in the field adjoining Little Wood, which to-day gives …