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A History of the County of Worcester
… Parishes Stone STONE Stanes (xi and xiii cent.). The parish of Stone has an area of 2,516 … water, 1,405 acres are arable land, 415 permanent grass, and 90 wood. 1 It is situated immediately south-east of … Stone and Aline his wife are mentioned as landowners in Worcestershire, 8 and were probably holding the manor of …
A History of the County of Worcester
… on the southern boundary of the county, facing the Malvern and Bredon Hills. It is on the right bank of the Avon, which … 160 ft., the ground sloping away from it north, west and south, the lowest points reached being on the banks of … Nash, D.D., brother of Dr. Treadway Nash, the historian of Worcestershire. 84 Dr. Richard Nash and his wife Frances …
A History of the County of Warwick
… The village lies just to the west of the Fosse Way; and a mile to the south-east of the church, in a bend of the … traffic), which originated in a tramway between Moreton and Stratford constructed about 1825. Under an Act of 1771 3 … Stretton-on-Fosse was originally a chapel of Blockley in Worcestershire, 89 and although in 1351 the inhabitants …
A History of the County of Worcester
… Parishes Suckley SUCKLEY With ALFRICK And LULSLEY Suchelei, Suchelie (xi cent.); Sugeleg, … (xv cent.). Suckley, with its former chapelries of Lulsley and Alfrick, is an extensive agricultural parish with a … to use his interest to prevent his being made Sheriff of Worcestershire. 63 He died in 1719, 64 when his son D'Ewes …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… 1,417 acres, of which 132 acres are covered with woods and plantations, the rest being nearly equally divided between arable land and permanent grass. 1 The main portion forms a long strip, … the first detached portion, and the Kennet and Avon Canal is to the south of the river, crossing both the main …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… divided into two distinct portions, called the Upper End and the Lower End. The former contains 576 acres, the latter … are 251 acres of arable land, 300 acres of permanent grass and 135 acres of woods and plantations. 1 The Upper End is a … rising to 300 ft. at the southern end. The Kennet and Avon Canal and some tributaries of the Kennet flow across the …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… its proper name, though now it is in general both written and called Sundridge. In Domesday it is written Sondresse, and in the Textus Roffensis, Sunderersce. The VILLAGE of … and heirs of Theobald de Verdon, a great baron of Staffordshire, two sons, Bartholomew and Henry; of whom …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… on the east bank of the Loddon between Stratfield Saye and Arborfield. On the south it is divided from Hampshire by … Blackwater crosses the parish from south-east to northwest and joins the Loddon on the west side of Swallowfield Park. There is a strip of alluvium by the river and an area of valley gravel south of the Blackwater. The …
A History of the County of Oxford
… (14 km.) north of Oxford. It covers 2,913 a. (1,179 ha.) and is divided into three townships, Tackley and Nethercott (1,841 a.), Whitehill (734 a.), and Weaveley … there c. 1637, and a stone bridge, later extended over the canal, before 1750. A bridge in Whitehill, recorded in the …
Magna Britannia
… Talaton TALLATON, or TALATON, in the hundred of Hayridge and in the deanery of Plymtree, lies about two miles and a half from Ottery St. Mary, and about six from Honiton. … Bell's plan, supported by subscription. The Teign-grace canal, projected about the year 1770, by James Templer, Esq., …