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A History of the County of Oxford
… 36 s. 10 The site of New Woodstock, a well drained plateau on the edge of the Glyme valley opposite the royal palace, … borough comprised 61 � a. 14 Its boundary with the park on the west and south was probably established at its … prevented further expansion, and in 1635 Woodstock's assessment for ship money was only �20, compared with …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the profits were taken to include the quitrents set on burgages at the town's foundation and still listed in … of 466 13 s. 4 d. for the fee farm, a calculation based on an annual payment of 5 marks which presumably included 1 … by mortgaging the meadows. 97 Regular expenditure was on salaries, repairs, and the one surviving fee farm rent, and …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… area included Madgett, a detached piece of cultivated land on Tidenham Chase, and a long, narrow neck of land extending … and the steep wooded scarp of Madgett Hill. The promontory on which Ferry Farm stands was called Yewtree Headland ( Iwes … bank being much silted and the bank suffering erosion. 6 On the south-west the boundary follows the stream that flows …
A History of the County of Somerset
… its name derived from a Saxon personal name, 5 lies on the northern slope of the Polden ridge near its western … 7 In 1885 Withy Leaze, a detached part of Shapwick parish on the north-west boundary, was added to Woolavington, but in … parish. 10 The southern part lies between 19 m. (62 ft.) on a broad band of Lower Lias clay and limestone and 61 m. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… then very steeply, to attain a maximum height of 678 ft. on Telegraph Hill on its eastern boundary. Woolbeding House, north of the … ancient detail that survives is a Tudor stone fire-place on the first floor which has a moulded four-centred arch and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… containing 942 inhabitants. This place is situated on the road from Ipswich to Bury St. Edmund's, and was … of the largest horse-fairs in England is held at Woolpit on September 16th, and a large fair for bullocks on the 18th and 19th. The living is a rectory, valued in the …
The Environs of London
… and how occupid. Soil. Chalk-pit. Land-tax. Woolwich lies on the banks of the Thames, within the hundred of Blackheath, … distance of nine miles from London. The parish is bounded on the north by the river Thames, except in that part where it extends on the opposite side of the river into Essex, being there …
A History of the County of Oxford
… covered some 70,000 acres of central Oxfordshire, bounded on the east by the river Cherwell, on the north by its tributary the Swere, and on much of the … of Wootton in the later 12th century. 12 The Domesday assessment of places known later to belong to the hundred was …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… the parish contains East Wick Farm, which possibly stands on the site of what was a small village in the Middle Ages. … 96 The parish boundary follows a dry valley and a ridge on the south-east, but no prominent natural feature marks it elsewhere. On the north and in several other places it is marked by …