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A History of the County of Sussex
… the 19th and 20th centuries, however, there was virtually no woodland. 8 William of Etchingham had free warren in his … earliest known secular building in the village is Coachman's cottage in Church Lane, a probably 16th-century … small site. A manor at BILSHAM was held by Godwine, a free man, in 1066, and by Hugh of earl Roger in 1086; there was …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… in NMR) d(2) Moat (?) (SP 761448), lay immediately S. of Moor End Road, on Boulder Clay at 102 m. above OD. The … of a sub-rectangular island, completely overgrown, with no visible surface features. The island is surrounded by a … visible on the ground or on air photographs except on the land N.E. of the village, sloping down to the R. Tove, where …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… the county boundary with Bedfordshire which forms its S.E. side. It consists of land sloping generally N. between 110 m. and 66 m. above OD, … here (NM Records). d(2) Enclosure (SP 850551), 700 m. W.S.W. of (1) in a similar situation. Air photographs (in NMR) …
A History of the County of Somerset
… cuts a steep-sided valley from east to west between God's Hill (107 m. (352 ft.)) and Yarlington Sleights (127 m. … lower ground is composed of Midford Sands and the higher land of Inferior Oolite limestone, but in the east there are … nuisance and presumably closed. 95 Thereafter there was no licensed house until the Stag's Head opened in the 1850s …
A History of the County of Oxford
… occasionally called a chapel in the 14th century, 44 but no reference has been found to residual obligations such as … the vicarage until the Dissolution. 47 In 1466 the abbey's nominee was rejected as unfit and presentation was made by … 133-4; e 12, ff. 87v.-97v. O.R.O., tithe award. Vicarage land of 8 a. there recorded seems to have been Thomas's own: …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to be only 44, 17 presumably because of the loss of arable land by inclosure in the 15th and 16th centuries. 18 By the … because of a threatened uprising. 25 The Privy Council's concern may have slowed the process, but it could not … mead (75 a.) lie along the north bank of the river with no physical boundaries between them; together they are known …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in Yarnton until 1932. 47 That change increased Yarnton's area from 1,644 a. to 1,762 a. (713 ha.). 48 An area known … beyond Spring Hill. North and west of the village the land is Oxford clay, interspersed with terraces of river … some fragments of medieval pottery in the area, there is no firm evidence of continued occupation. 77 Railway …
A History of the County of Oxford
… granted 10 hides at YARNTON, formerly his cousin Godwin's, to his newly founded abbey at Eynsham. 63 The land was taken at the Conquest by Remigius, bishop of … m. 11d.; Ibid. PROB 11/37, f. 134v. P.R.O., C 142/223, no. 75. P.R.O., C 142/191, no. 67; C 142/264, no. 127; Harl. …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… is still preserved in the name of a pass called the "Hart's leap," marked by two stones said to have been placed there … abounds with picturesque and romantic scenery, and perhaps no stream in the country is associated with reminiscences of … is about a mile and a half in circuit, by a narrow neck of land, or sandbank, thrown up by opposite currents of two …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… and Roman b(1) Double ring ditch (?) (TL 07229721), in the S.E. of the parish, 150 m. W. of Yarwell Mill, on limestone … 150 ft. above OD. Air photographs show a set of ditches of no coherent form. The S. extension has been quarried away. … it did not extend across the Yarwell-Wansford road. This land, recently cleared of trees, was formerly part of the …