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A History of the County of Oxford
… The land is mostly Lower Lias clay, but in the north west, on Iron Down and its outlier Hawk hill where the ground rises … m., there are patches of Middle Lias clay and marlstone. 5 On the north the parish was bounded by the road from Chipping … of Knowle, ed. W. B. Bickley; Gild Reg. of Stratford on Avon, ed. H. Bloom. R. H. Gretton, Burford Rec. 264. Bodl. …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Parishes Netheravon NETHERAVON Netheravon is mostly on the elevated and exposed eastern side of Salisbury Plain … western boundary across open downland to the Christchurch Avon and extends a little over 3 km. from north to south. 2 … the 19th West Chisenbury, named from the gravel terrace on which it is situated, was known interchangeably as West …
A History of the County of Warwick
… Parishes Newbold-on-Avon NEWBOLD-ON-AVON Acreage: Newbold, 1,628 Cosford, 557 … is contained in a lease dated 25 March 1719, by which John Bradford, overseer of the poor of the liberties of Long …
A History of the County of Warwick
… and population, 3 miles north-west of Rugby. It is bounded on the south by the Avon, on the west by the Fosse Way, and for a short distance in the …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… village the modern school 1 stands well back from the road on the left. Fronting on the street are several picturesque cottages, from the … between the Rother, which after becoming part of the Avon flows into the English Channel, and the Oakhanger …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… arable, about 400 permanent grass and 100 woodland. 3 The Avon flows through both parishes from north to south and the land on the banks of the river is flat, but from the valley there … the Conquest to the Earls of Salisbury 4 until 1196, when on the death of Edward Earl of Salisbury his only daughter …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… it followed the course of a tributary of the Christchurch Avon from Bottlesford in Manningford Bohune to Newnton, and … outcrops typical of the Pewsey Vale. Lower Chalk outcrops on the central ridge including Cats Brain. Upper Greensand … In 1803 the boundary between the tithings ran from a point on the northern parish boundary near Butts Farm southwest to …
A History of the County of Worcester
… Nordfeld (xi cent.). The parish of Northfield is situated on the northern border of the county, but with the exception … of Selly Oak; California is a 'village of brickmakers' on the banks of the Birmingham and Worcester Canal in the … mentioned in 1522, when Elizabeth Edwards of Stratford-on-Avon leased her manor place there to Henry Morgan and his …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… in local administration. The ancient parish was bounded on the west by the Roman Foss way, which was recorded there … to the site of a long barrow called Crickley barrow on part of a medieval salt way which led from the Thames at … statement in some accounts of Northleach (e.g. Glos. and Avon Life, May 1976, 39; Glos. Colln. R 217.20) that the main …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Norton NORTON Norton is 5 km. south-west of Malmesbury. 1 On Speed's map of 1611 the name Coloparle, in error for Cole … was marked by no symbol. 2 As a result Norton was named on later maps as Norton Colepark or Norton Coleparle 3 and … by tributaries of the Sherston branch of the Bristol Avon, two of which meet near Norton village. The south-east …