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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… lies across the valley of the South Winterborne, and slopes up onto the S. Dorset Ridgeway to a height of … Winterborne Came, now only represented by Came House, and Cripton, on the site of the present Came Home Farm. Each … parish which included the modern parish of Herringston and from the 17th century until the 19th century both were …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… across the Winterborne valley at altitudes between 250 ft. and 600 ft. above sea-level; it formerly included some 60 … the river appear to represent three separate villages and manors. Philipston, in the N., lay around the present … by the present Manor House; Nicholson was sited near and to the S. of St. Nicholas's Church. In 1340 Nicholson and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… SY 89 NW, ST 80 SE) This parish has an area of 2,559 acres and lies on both sides of the Winterborne stream, at altitudes between 160 ft. and 400 ft. above sea-level; the land is mainly Chalk. Until … includes three original settlements: Kingston, Turberville and Muston. Kingston and Muston may well be represented among …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Chalk, which is overlaid by extensive areas of gravels and sands in its higher parts, especially in the S. on … in the parish, Martinstown in the centre, Ashton in the E. and Rew (not recorded as such until 1283, but probably much … prehistoric earthwork in Britain. The complex structure and history of the monument, from the Neolithic to the Late …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… The parish, of over 2,100 acres, lies entirely upon Chalk and rises to an altitude of 500 ft. above sea-level. The land … Winterborne brook, which flows into the parish from the W. and turns S. at the village. The area was formerly divided into two settlements and manors, Stickland and Quarleston, 1 each with its own …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… NW) The parish lies in the valley of the Winterborne brook and has an area of 3,436 acres, entirely on Chalk. Until 1933 … Abbas parish included the W. part of Whitechurch village, and the parish church thus stood outside its own parish. … in the W. part of the village. The walls are of flint and rubble with ashlar dressings, and of banded flint and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Winterbourne Steepleton, beside the river, is the original and still the only settlement in the parish and contains a … Walls furlong show that the terraces were built up by long plough action ( see profile). The uphill treads here have a … slope, are virtually flat. Turning arrangements for the plough at the end of each of these furlongs (where the map …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Skipton, E. division of the wapentake of Staincliffe and Ewcross, W. riding of York, 7 miles (N. W. by N.) from … inhabitants. It is situated on the east side of the Aire, and intersected by a tributary of that river. There is a … now no longer held. The parish is tolerably extensive, and the village, which is long and straggling, occupies a …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… SP 67 SW, b SP 67 NW) The parish covers about 840 hectares and lies across the valley of a small N.W.-flowing stream … over Lias clays, to a maximum of 168 m. in the S.W. and 190 m. in the N.E., across a rolling landscape drained by … by expanses of Boulder Clay as well as glacial sands and gravels. The major monument is the now almost totally …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Leverington LEVERINGTON Leverington is a large parish and village on the northwest of Wisbech. 1 The lay-out-a … outfall, a village site protected by the 'Roman Bank', and a landward extension into the fen-was originally the same … repayment. These loans were generally arranged on or about Plough Monday. Another form of stock consisted of cows which …