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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… 70 SE, ST 80 NW, ST 80 SW) The parish covers 1,974 acres and lies entirely upon Chalk between 350 ft. and 870 ft. above sea-level. The village stands at the head of the Winterborne stream and dry tributary valleys extend from it to W. and N.W. The …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… SY 89 NW, ST 80 SE) This parish has an area of 2,559 acres and lies on both sides of the Winterborne stream, at altitudes between 160 ft. and 400 ft. above sea-level; the land is mainly Chalk. Until … parish of Bere Regis ( Dorset II, 1122); since then the civil parish has been independent, but the church remains a …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Chalk, which is overlaid by extensive areas of gravels and sands in its higher parts, especially in the S. on … in the parish, Martinstown in the centre, Ashton in the E. and Rew (not recorded as such until 1283, but probably much … prehistoric earthwork in Britain. The complex structure and history of the monument, from the Neolithic to the Late …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… The parish, of over 2,100 acres, lies entirely upon Chalk and rises to an altitude of 500 ft. above sea-level. The land … Winterborne brook, which flows into the parish from the W. and turns S. at the village. The area was formerly divided into two settlements and manors, Stickland and Quarleston, 1 each with its own …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… NW) The parish lies in the valley of the Winterborne brook and has an area of 3,436 acres, entirely on Chalk. Until 1933 … Abbas parish included the W. part of Whitechurch village, and the parish church thus stood outside its own parish. … in the W. part of the village. The walls are of flint and rubble with ashlar dressings, and of banded flint and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… It is entirely on Chalk, capped in places with sands and gravels, and slopes from just over 600 ft. in the N. and 450 ft. in … treads are 6 yds. and 4 yds. wide and the risers, shown by disturbances to be packed with flints, are up to 9 ft. high. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Winterbourne Steepleton, beside the river, is the original and still the only settlement in the parish and contains a few houses of the 16th and 17th centuries. The parish has 49 round barrows and a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Skipton, E. division of the wapentake of Staincliffe and Ewcross, W. riding of York, 7 miles (N. W. by N.) from … inhabitants. It is situated on the east side of the Aire, and intersected by a tributary of that river. There is a … styles, with a tower, was greatly injured during the civil war in the time of Charles, but was afterwards …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… OF PARSON DROVE Parson Drove, originally a township and chapelry of Leverington, became a separate ecclesiastical … Rectory Act (1870). It had long maintained its own poor, 1 and its separate existence for civil purposes was virtually recognized in 1874, when a …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Hundred Elm ELM Elm, on the Norfolk border between Wisbech and Outwell, is one of the larger parishes in the Isle. It … shape usually found in Wisbech hundred, with the church and village on the firm silt land at the north-east end, just … Richard Swale (1545 ?1608), Chancellor of Ely and a noted civil lawyer; he was appointed rector in 1588 by …