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A History of the County of York North Riding
… Acclom, Aklome (xv cent.); West Acklam (xix cent.). The parish of Acklam, which formerly included the township of Linthorpe and chapelry of Middlesbrough, 1 now covers an area of only 1,170 acres. The soil is sand and clay on a subsoil of Keuper marls. …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… Parishes Acrise ACRISE. LIES the next parish south-eastward from Eleham. It is written in the survey of Domesday, Acres, taking its name from its high situation, and the plenty of oak trees growing in it. It is vulgarly called …
A History of the County of Worcester
… was transferred to Herefordshire in 1897. 1 The River Leadon and its tributaries bound it on the south and east, and it is also watered by a tributary of Leigh Brook, on which stands Acton corn-mill. 2 The parish lies on high ground. Between the church and Acton …
A History of the County of Stafford
… formerly two joint townships and chapelries within the ancient parish of Baswich, 1 now form a single civil parish, 2 the area of which is 2,594 acres and the population of which was 432 in 1951. 3 In shape a rough …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Parishes Adderbury ADDERBURY The ancient parish of Adderbury 1 covered an area of 6,045 a. and included the townships of Adderbury East (2,058 a.), Adderbury West … with Barford St. Michael to form a new civil parish. 3 The modern civil parish of Adderbury (East and West) with …
Magna Britannia
… Parishes Addingham - Aspatria Addingham The parish of Addingham, or Addenham, in Leathward, is … four townships; Gamblesby, which formerly gave name to the parish; Glassonby; Hunsonby and Winskill, or Winscale; … and Little-Salkeld. There is no village of Addingham: the church is in the township of Glassonby; the …
A History of the County of Surrey
… (xi cent.); Adinton (later). Addington, which lies on the chalk and Thanet sand, comprises an area of 3,359 acres. It still remains rural, notwithstanding the neighbourhood of Croydon and London. Building operations are, however, invading its borders from the former, and the Croydon borough waterworks, with a well …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… antient charters, Eddingtune, signifying, as I imagine, the town or territory of Adda, or Edda, its antient Saxon … being a town or territory inclosed with a hedge or fence. THE PARISH of Addington is not unpleasantly situated, for the greatest part on high ground, adjoining to the northern …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Adlestrop ADLESTROP Adlestrop is a small rural parish on the eastern border of Gloucestershire, about three miles east of Stow-on-the-Wold. The ancient parish, 1,306 a. in area, 1 is roughly …
Magna Britannia
… ADVENT, commonly called St. Ann or St. Tane 1, lies in the hundred of Lesnewth and deanery of Trigg-minor, about a mile and a half south from Camelford. It contains the small villages of Treclegoe or Trelegoe, Pencarow, and Tresinny. Most of the estates in this parish are parcel of the duchy of …