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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 …
A History of the County of Surrey
… Parishes Weybridge WEYBRIDGE Webrige and Webruge, 1086; Waybrugg (xii cent.); Weybrigge juxta … by the Thames. It measures 3 miles from north to south and 1 mile from east to west, and contains 1,330 acres of … with it in 1795. 5 In 1641 it was proposed to make a canal from Arundel through Guildford to Weybridge. An Act for …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Cam or Rhee in the north to c. 23 metres in the south and west. It lies mainly on the Lower Chalk which overlies … the Gault except in the northern corner of the parish, and there is a narrow strip of alluvium along the river … at Meldreth. An Act of 1812 authorized the cutting of a canal from Whaddon to Sawston, as a branch of the Stort …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 1894. 1 The northern boundary of both the ancient parish and the modern one is formed by the River Avon and a tributary stream, Semington Brook. The Kennet and Avon Canal formed most of the southern boundary of Whaddon parish. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… lying at the foot of the Chilterns between Watlington and Thame. The modern acreage is 740 acres, but until 1886 … Haseley Brook which separates Wheatfield from Tetsworth and Adwell in the north and east. 3 The parish lies mostly … the garden to the north was a hop garden surrounded by a canal. On the map an avenue of trees runs north from the …
A History of the County of Worcester
… WHITE LADIES ASTON Eastun, Estun (xi cent.); Eston (xii and xiii cent.); Bishop's Aston, Aston Episcopi (xiv cent.); … into the River Avon near Defford, forms the eastern, and Saw Brook, a tributary of Bow Brook, forms the southern … Solley held it at the time of Habington's Survey of Worcestershire. 64 In 161011 Sir Fitton, kt., was lord of the …
A History of the County of Warwick
… parishes with a Danish name, is a very small parish and village on the north-east border of the county 5 miles … angle being formed by the junction of the Fosse Way and the Watling Street, though owing to boundary changes 1 … and afterwards to his newly founded abbey of Burton in Staffordshire. 4 Either the amount was small or Wulfric's …
A History of the County of Worcester
… in 1905 656 acres were arable land, 1,761 permanent grass and 119 woods. 2 The soil is clay, with a subsoil of Keuper Marl, growing crops of wheat, beans and fruit and a few hops. The slope of the land is from … a glazed lantern. When Wichenford Court was visited by the Worcestershire Naturalists' Club on 7 June 1866, around two …
A History of the County of Hertford
… xiii cent. Wigginton is a long parish running north and south, the west boundary lying along the edge of the Chilterns. The church and village stand in the north-west of the parish on a small … east of the parish is connected with the Grand Junction Canal, and the main line of the London and North Western …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Wilcot, contiguous with Pewsey, 6 miles from Marlborough, and 8 miles from Devizes, consisted of three ancient tithings, Wilcot and East Stowell, Draycot Fitz Payne, and Oare. 1 The tithing … and the other near Wide Water, part of the Kennet & Avon Canal, whence it flows through the ornamental lake of Wilcot …