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The Environs of London
… Chalk-pit. Land-tax. Woolwich lies on the banks of the Thames, within the hundred of Blackheath, and at the distance … from London. The parish is bounded on the north by the river Thames, except in that part where it extends on the opposite …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 1129 inhabitants. The parish lies on the banks of the river Glym, and comprises about 4000 acres, chiefly arable … in WoottonWawen township. The parish is situated on the river Alne, and comprises 8518 a. 3 r. 15 p., of which 4100 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… of Northampton and the R. Nene. It is separated from the river for most of its length by Hardingstone parish except at …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 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 south by the rivers Thames and Windrush. Part of the western boundary passed … from the flat meadows and oolitic gravels of the Upper Thames in the south to the rich 'red land' of the ironstone …
A History of the County of Oxford
… uplands of central Oxfordshire, partly on the flat river gravels of the Thames valley, was not a distinct region; some villages … in the east. There was abundant meadow along the rivers Thames, Cherwell, Evenlode, Glyme, and Windrush; complex …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… advantages of its situation near a fordable part of the river Severn, and on the confines of a thick forest, it was … and the inhabitants, abandoning the city, retired to the river-island Bevere, in which they fortified themselves, … of elevated ground rising gently from the east bank of the river Severn, over which is a handsome stone bridge of five …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Holdfast and other villages borde= ring upon the said river of Seaverne who worke with forestalling netts which … not, they drive backe, that they cannot come up the said river; and by reason thereof your petitioners are like to perish, the said river being thus destroyed for fishing; your petitioners …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… a wooden bridge standinge uppon arches of stone, over the river of Teame in Teamburie afforesaid, beinge a markett …