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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… bounded by low banks. Roman and Prehistoric (19) Combs Ditch (8505021788710000), a linear dyke, follows a sinuous … Spetisbury on the N.E. Winterborne Whitechurch. (19) Combs Ditch. Cross-section near East Down Plantation. The dyke consists of a bank with a ditch on the N.E. side. The bank varies from 18 ft. to 28 ft. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Dumovaria, the capital of the Durotriges. It has a treble ditch and rampart, inclosing an irregular oval area of 44 … a parish, in the union of Blandford, hundred of Coombs-Ditch, Blandford division of Dorset, 4 miles (S. W.) from the … present church, on the side of a hill, commences Coombs-Ditch, which gives name to the hundred, and where courts were …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… of an island about 40 m. across surrounded by a shallow ditch now less than 1 m. deep. The whole has been …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… the line of a branch of the Roman 'White Way' (p. xlv). A ditch (SP 0240144002751447) in Withington Wood ('a' on the … not mapped; in situation, however, it recalls the linear ditch at Southam (6). Monuments in Withington. (1) Iron Age …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of the townships, seems nevertheless to have made a fairly swift partial recovery, 39 and overall the town's stagnation …
A History of the County of Oxford
… along both sides of High Street, evidently the 'town ditch' adjoining two High Street properties in the 1540s. Part of the ditch at High Street's southern end, later called Gunn's …
A History of the County of Oxford
… drainage poured from a brick barrel drain into an open ditch, long remained a 'filthy nuisance'. 249 In 1874, after …
A History of the County of Oxford
… walls were rendered. 42 A moat, replacing the earlier ditch, was created probably in the later 12th century, its …