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A History of the County of Warwick
… 1911, 657; 1921, 686; 1931, 763. Wolvey is a large parish and village on the border of the county 5 miles south-east of … of the River Anker, rising near Wolvey Farm in the south and Wolvey Wolds in the south-east of the parish. The north-east and southern boundaries, with Leicestershire and Withybrook, …
A History of the County of Surrey
… List of maps Wonersh WONERSH Wonherche (xiv cent.); Ognersh and Ignersh (xvi and xvii cents.). Wonersh is a village about 3 miles south by … Horsham traverses the parish, and the disused Wey and Arun Canal also. The London, Brighton and South Coast line from …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… mainly in the Vale of Pewsey some 7 miles from Devizes and 3 miles from Pewsey. 1 It is roughly rectangular but with … 1,023 a. are bounded in the south by the road to Pewsey and by the path which was perhaps an older, more direct, road … by a stream, flowing southwards from the Kennet & Avon Canal to the Avon. From Honey Street the northern boundary …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… name according to Verstegan, from the Saxon idol Woden, (and it is spelt by some Wodensborough) whose place of worship … brass plate, John Hill, gent. of the parish of Nassall, in Staffordshire, obt. 1605. A mural monument for William Gibbs, … between three garbs, for John Hill, of Nasall, in Staffordshire, who lies buried in this church. A fess …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… of Swindon. The parish is roughly triangular in shape and covers some 5,106 a. of land. 1 From the base of the triangle to its tip in the north is about 3 miles and the distance along the base is approximately three miles. … it left the town to carry it over two railway lines and a canal. The road leading off the high street for Marlborough …
A History of the County of Warwick
… 2,264. Wootton Wawen is a large parish, about 7 miles long and 3 miles broad, including the hamlet of Ullenhall in the … blocks of woodland. The Birmingham and Stratford-on-Avon Canal crosses the parish, leaving it near Silesbourne Farm, … Luffenham 10; W. Cooper, op. cit. 14. Ibid. Visitation of Worcestershire, 1569 (Harl. Soc. xxvii), p. 73. Ibid. Harl. …
A History of the County of Warwick
… 176. On the east this parish adjoins Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire, but the portion of the former county which … dated 956, by which he gave the vill to Earl fhere 1 and seem, so far as they can be identified, to agree fairly … village), constructed to supply the Oxford and Birmingham Canal, which winds through the parish. From the mere they run …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… of the chalk hills, lies Wormsell, now vulgarly called, and as frequently written, Wormshill. THAT PART of it … of East Kent, but the rest of it, including the church and village, is in that of West Kent, to which division … whose descendant Francis Dingley, esq. of Charlton, in Worcestershire, passed it away, at the latter end of the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… lost 148 a. (60 ha.) to the municipal borough in 1928 and 36 a. (15 ha.) in 1934. 2 Wroughton's southern boundary, 9 km. distant, is on the Marlborough Downs, and is formed by the trackway known as Smeathe's ridge which … to South Wales was built in 1971. 45 The Wilts. & Berks. canal was cut across the parish in 1804 with a wharf where …
A History of the County of Oxford
… (2,543 a.) 2 lies 3 miles westnorth-west of Banbury and includes the hamlet of Balscott. 3 It lies on a sandstone … by streams, form natural boundaries to the north, east, and south; the two villages themselves are situated at the … by ancient trackways and by the Saltway, a route from the Worcestershire saltworks to London. It has not yet been …