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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Twyford, lathe of Aylesford, W. division of Kent, 6 miles (S. W.) from Maidstone; containing 2467 inhabitants. The … one arch, 180 feet in span, cast at the foundry of Messrs. Walker and Co., of Rotherham, was erected in 1805, at an … his name to the higher portion, still called Fuller's Hill. As the bank increased in extent and density, the …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… Acres. Another terrace-way approaches Monument (1) from S.W. (map, p. 25, s.v. Chedworth). (1) Romano-British Settlement (SP 06051390 … J. R. Collis, World Archaeology (1971), 371; and in D. Hill and M. Jesson (ed.), The Iron Age and its Hill-forts …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… the county boundary with Bedfordshire which forms its S.E. side. It consists of land sloping generally N. between … here (NM Records). d(2) Enclosure (SP 850551), 700 m. W.S.W. of (1) in a similar situation. Air photographs (in NMR) … furlongs in the N. of Round Hey Field, around Dam Hill Furlong (SP 875582; RAF VAP CPE/ UK/1994, 31858, 21905, …
A History of the County of Somerset
… cuts a steep-sided valley from east to west between God's Hill (107 m. (352 ft.)) and Yarlington Sleights (127 m. (452 … 136; S.R.O., D/D/Ca 267, 297; Cal. S.P. Dom. 1633-4, 581. Walker Revised, ed. A. G. Matthews, 309. S.R.O., DD/S/ST …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the vicarage until the Dissolution. 47 In 1466 the abbey's nominee was rejected as unfit and presentation was made by … lord, C. K. F. Brown, gave the advowson to St. Catherine's College, Oxford. In 1984 St. Catherine's transferred the … Stapleton, Three Oxon. Pars. 223. For Ball see D.N.B. Walker Revised, ed. A. G. Matthews, 300; D.N.B. D.N.B.; …
A History of the County of Oxford
… because of a threatened uprising. 25 The Privy Council's concern may have slowed the process, but it could not … in the later 19th century, are included in Yarnton's lot meadows; the west part was also lot meadow in the 18th … intensive. Of new farms created, the most notable were Hill farm, whose farmhouse is dated 1731, and, probably, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in Yarnton until 1932. 47 That change increased Yarnton's area from 1,644 a. to 1,762 a. (713 ha.). 48 An area known … part of the south-east corner of Yarnton west of King's bridge. A house stood c. 1200 on the Yarnton side of the … more steeply to over 91 m. in the north-west beyond Spring Hill. North and west of the village the land is Oxford clay, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… granted 10 hides at YARNTON, formerly his cousin Godwin's, to his newly founded abbey at Eynsham. 63 The land was … The farm was tenanted for most of the 19th century by the Walker family. 92 It seems to have been bought in the late … The house was sold in 1965. In 1895 the college bought Hill farm, whose land adjoined Jackson's farm, from Sir …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… is still preserved in the name of a pass called the "Hart's leap," marked by two stones said to have been placed there … forest; the chief are some oak-trees on the West Faldshope hill, but they are more remarkable for their great age than … and Teviotdale, and patronage of the Crown the minister's stipend is 233. 8. 1., with a manse, and the glebe is …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… corner takes in the lower, western, slopes of Windmill Hill. 30 Flat and well drained, nearly all Yatesbury's land is suitable for ploughing. Large areas of open field … via the Avenue and a northsouth road along the parish's western boundary or via either of the Avebury roads. The …