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A History of the County of Oxford
… has 1 miles of the River Cherwell for its western boundary and the Romano-British Aves Ditch for its eastern. 2 Neither … nor its southern boundary, separating it from Somerton and Lower Heyford respectively, follows any distinctive … it more liable to flooding. 10 The Oxford-Coventry canal surveyed by James Brindley in 1768 and completed in …
A History of the County of Worcester
… cent.); Snodesbyrie (xi cent.); Upton Stephani, Snodesbury and Upton, Snodbur, Upton Snodsbury, Upton or Opton juxta … acres in extent, lies between Piddle Brook on the east and Bow Brook on the west. The country is flat, the highest … in 1461. 26 It was granted with many other of his Worcestershire estates to Fulk Stafford in 1461, 27 and this …
A History of the County of Worcester
… an area of 3,211 acres, of which 691 acres are arable land and 1,824 permanent grass. 1 The parish lies on Keuper Marl … alluvium near the river. The chief crops are wheat, barley and beans, with hay in the Severn meadows. There are a great … Brook. The property has recently been purchased by the Worcestershire County Council for small holdings. There was …
A History of the County of Worcester
… Upton Warren is situated about 3 miles north of Droitwich, and has an area of 2,520 acres, of which only 4 are water. In … 886 acres of arable land 1,398 acres of permanent grass and 31 acres of woodland. 1 The Salwarpe River forms part of … Warin, 14 who seems to have been a man of some note in Worcestershire, and was made sheriff of the county in 1229. …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… 17th century, when the inhabitants of Walton struggled for and won parochial independence. 1 The parish was 649 a. in area 2 and roughly square in shape, bounded on the west by the River … Elizabeth died in the same year the heirs to her lands in Worcestershire were at first said to be her sisters Margaret, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… chapelry (2,572 a.) 1 included the hamlets of Williamscot and Coton, with which it had been linked for administrative … probably always dependent, since it had no separate manor, and Williamscot, though taxed separately until the 17th … enough to Cropredy to benefit from the opening of the canal, and communications with Banbury and beyond were …
A History of the County of Worcester
… Warnton (xvii cent.). Warndon is a small parish in mid-Worcestershire, about 2 miles east of the town of Worcester. … of which in 1905 302 were arable land, 385 permanent grass and 30 woods. 1 The soil is clay with a subsoil of Keuper Marl, growing crops of wheat and beans. A road from Droitwich to Worcester forms part of …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… The small parish of Wasing lies in the south of the county and runs down to the Enborne stream, which forms part of its … about one-third are arable, one-third permanent grass and the remaining third woods and plantations. 1 The chief … is partly clay and partly sand and gravel. No railway or canal passes through the parish, but the high road from …
A History of the County of Warwick
… projecting eastwards between the River Tame on the north and the parish of Coleshill on the south. It was constituted an ecclesiastical parish in 1871 and a civil parish in 1894. 1 The Birmingham to Derby branch … by a rent-charge of 12 12 s. paid by the Dudley Canal Company. Frances Hargrave by will dated 11 June 1883 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… border with the River Thame for its southern boundary, and the Holton Brook for its western. 2 It consists of the civil parishes of Waterperry and Thomley. Part of Thomley hamlet has always lain in the … Penelope, daughter and coheir of William Child of Worcestershire, and Anne, sister and coheir of Rowland, Baron …