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A History of the County of Rutland
… a mount and bailey fortress to the north-east of Burley village. 1 Horn was in the 14th century in East Hundred. 2 It …
A History of the County of Stafford
… with Fawfieldhead and Wetton. The centre of Alstonefield village stands at 914 ft. (279 m.). The land rises to the … of it. Boulder Clay overlies the rock north-east of the village and also around Gateham Grange and on Archford moor. … suit at the manor court; there were 62 in Alstonefield village and Milldale, 8 in Hope, 10 in Stanshope, and 16 in …
A History of the County of Stafford
… houses in the Middle Ages along the road from Alstonefield village to Longnor: the Low was recorded in 1399 and Rewlach … road turnpiked in 1770 originally ran west of Warslow village over Reaps moor. It was realigned to the east in the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… pasture, with scattered farms in river valleys and with no village centre. The western boundary with Leekfrith is formed … in 1770 it was realigned to run directly to Longnor village by way of a bridge at Windy Arbour. 11 By 1818 there …
A History of the County of Stafford
… and later a civil parish 1,842 a. (745 ha.) in area. 80 A village with a chapel and a school but no inn or shop lies in … is a Bronze Age barrow on the hillside south-west of the village. 84 The village takes its name from its position at the mouth of a …
A History of the County of Stafford
… ancient parish in the county after Leek. Alstonefield village, in the south-east corner of the ancient parish, is … side of the hill at 1,526 ft. (465 m.), is the highest village in England. In Heathylee the northern end of … from the Leek-Buxton road in Heathylee nearly to Warslow village. The ministry owns 850 a. of it and leases 886 a. …
A History of the County of Stafford
… later a civil parish 813 a. (329 ha.) in area. 65 Longnor village, which has the appearance of a small market town, … Nab End in the north-west corner of the township. Longnor village stands at 956 ft. (291 m.), the land to the … lowest, 800 ft. (244 m.), where the road east from Longnor village crosses the Dove. The underlying rock is sandstone of …
A History of the County of Stafford
… of the anglers Charles Cotton and Izaak Walton. 75 The village of Flash on the east side of the township is the … area was settled by pedlars and hawkers, and the present village grew up around a church built in 1744. 94 It had … to him as 'the very end of the civilized world', and Flash village was 'dirty, and bore marks principally of Poverty, …
A History of the County of Stafford
… ha.) in area. 32 The land is mostly pasture. Warslow village on the east side of the parish is the main centre of population, with a smaller village at Upper Elkstone nearly 2 miles to the west. North of Warslow village there is a small estate centred on Warslow Hall. The …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… the early 16th century. The probable site of the medieval village of Althorp (1) has been suggested and other features … landscaping the park (2). Medieval and Later b(1) Deserted village of Althorp (SP 678648; Fig. 15), probably lay on the … the site of Althorp but it seems likely that they are. The village is first noted in Domesday Book with a recorded …