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A History of the County of Somerset
… have been discovered on the northern ridge where Wembdon Hill and Moore's and Hollow lanes may outline a triangular … defensive site of the Bronze Age and later. 43 The hill gives the second element of the name of the parish. … Prospect Cottage, besides terraced cottages at 'Top of the Hill' and others called Sunny Banks, later Sandbanks. 48 In …
A History of the County of Somerset
… 3 In 1903 the vicar personally bought the house called Hill Grove in Wembdon Hill, 4 and his successors received an allowance to cover the … was a chapel called Holowell, near the well below Wembdon Hill. 29 No further trace of the chapel has been found. …
A History of the County of Somerset
… 1251. 57 The manor descended with Spaxton in the Fichet, Hill, and Waldegrave families. 58 James Waldegrave, Earl …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… from other benefactions, among the poor; and William Hill, in 1723, bequeathed an estate now let for 145 per … for Baptists, Bryanites, and Weslcyans. On the summit of a hill sailed Caer Bonalas, is a circle of upright stones, … the uppermost being 19 feet in diameter. On the same hill are two barrows, one of which is inclosed by a wall …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… a(55). Trackways and small Tumulus on Bacombe Hill, mile W. of the church. ConditionOf tumulus, much …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… parts: the view to the south and east is quite into a hill country, peak rising behind peak, and range behind … with the name of the Emperor Aurelian. On the adjoining hill called the Stiperstones, a labourer, a few years since … 400 acres are leased to William Stavert, Esq., of The Hill, who has essentially improved the property, and built a …
A History of the County of Essex
… A windmill first recorded in 1575-6 stood on Windmill hill south of Chapel Lane. 8 In the 1690s George Osborne held … paid a yearly rent of 6 d. for a new building on Windmill hill, but it had been abandoned by 1843. 10 Springett's mill, …
A History of the County of Essex
… the parish was woodland and its name, meaning 'copse by a hill', may describe the woods of Bergholt Hall. 20 The whole … Bronze-Age cemetery, and Iron-Age pottery from Chitts Hill, south of the Colne, also imply early settlement in that … There are large areas of undated cropmarks to the south of Hill House farm, west of Armoury farm, and east of Bourne …
A History of the County of Stafford
… godly persons, aged widows or poor, residing at Golds Hill'. In the 1960s the annual income was just over £5 from … from £1,000 to 'dissenting poor' attending the chapels of Hill Top Wesleyan Methodist circuit. In 1968 the income was …
A History of the County of Stafford
… The 1,746 signatories included the vicar of St. James's, Hill Top, and (reluctantly, it seems) Lord Dartmouth. The … century. Holy Trinity was opened in 1841, 67 St. James's, Hill Top, in 1842, 68 St. Michael's, John Street, in 1866 … in 1868. 12 A house on the Sandwell estate, Coopers Hill House, was originally provided for the minister by Lord …