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A History of the County of Warwick
… Park, 2 miles west from Wixford station on the Redditch and Evesham branch of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, and 3 miles south-west from Alcester, on the borders of Worcestershire. It lies between 200 and 400 ft. above …
A History of the County of Warwick
… 751. This parish was originally partly in Gloucestershire and partly in Warwickshire, but by an Order of 1894 the … Bickmarsh was divided between the parishes of Pebworth in Worcestershire and Dorsington, transferred at this time from Gloucestershire …
A History of the County of Somerset
… small settlements, West Bradley, including the church and West Bradley House, in the centre, Plot Street to the west, and part of Parbrook to the east within a roughly rectangular … Ponds and wilderness were mentioned in 1768. 74 The long canal parallel with the south front and aligned on the church …
A History of the County of Surrey
… of Guildford. It is bounded on the north by Send and Ripley, on the east by East Clandon, on the south by … west by Merrow. It measures 2 miles from north to south and rather over half a mile from east to west. It contains … In 1642 a later Sir Richard Weston, the agriculturist and canal projector, sold this land to Sir Richard Onslow, the …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… one of East Farleigh. It is called in Domesday, FERLAGA, and in the Textus Roffensis, FEARNLEGA, and most probably took its name from the passage over the … parishes, Fare in Saxon signifying a journey or passage, and lega, a place, i e. the place of the way or passage. The …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… OR TOWN MALLING. WESTWARD from East Malling lies the town and parish of West Malling, now most commonly called Town Malling. It is written in Domesday, MALLENGETIS, and in the Textus Roffensis, MELLINGES. In many deeds after … the abbey gate there is a good house, with a large garden, canal, and pleasure grounds, behind it, reaching down to the …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… West, alias Little Peckham, called in Domesday, PECHEHAM, and in the Textus Roffensis, PECHAM. It has the appellation … from its situation westward of Great, or East Peckham, and of Little, from its smallness in regard to that parish. … descendants of William de Stanley, lord of Stanley, in Staffordshire, and of Stourton, in the 10th year of king …
A History of the County of Essex
… Thurrock lies beside the Thames, 30 km. east of London and 3 km. west of Grays Thurrock. 1 The ancient parish, … of the parish except on the northern side, where farm land and woodland survive. Beside the Thames and the Mardyke are … as Orsett Hall (in Orsett) at high tide. 47 Plans for a canal to Battlesbridge in Rawreth in 1825 and one to Puddle …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… pasture. 2 The subsoil is Gault, Upper Greensand, and Chalk, the surface being variable, either loam or clay. The population is occupied in agriculture and duck breeding. A little straw-plait is still made, but … Broughton Farm. The Wendover branch of the Grand Junction Canal crosses the parish, and there is a large reservoir …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Westwood is 2.5 km. south-west of Bradford on Avon and 4 km. north-west of Trowbridge. 1 On the south-west and west it adjoins Somerset and, since 1974, the new county … workhouse at Avoncliff was set out. 22 The Kennet & Avon canal had been constructed south of the Avon inside the …