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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and called the Bourn-Eau; bourn being the Saxon term for brook or torrent. Though little of its early history is …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… village in a fold of the Clee plateau whence Pye (or Clee) brook drains west towards the river Corve. The township is … northern boundary followed a stream that descends to Pye brook at Peaton. The eastern and the higher part of the … plateau the land rises to 235 m. in the east, and on Pye brook in the west falls to 130 m. 79 The higher parts of the …
A History of the County of Essex
… corner of the liberty and followed Birch or Battles brook westwards to the lane from Old Heath to Rowhedge, then … the lane to its junction with a track leading back to the brook, thus taking in a small part of East Donyland. They followed the track back to the brook, the brook to its source by Mersea Road, and then …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… is Old Norse for spring or stream in allusion to the Bourn Brook (Reaney, 'Place-names of Cambs.', 155); or perhaps to a … in this Inventory. It is roughly bisected by the Bourn Brook, which flows in a S.E. direction and is 110 ft. above … of chalk and gault and some river gravel along the brook and its tributaries. The Cambridge to St. Neots road …
A History of the County of Essex
… Songers (20 a.), and Kersey's (26 a.) remained small; like Brook farm (42 a.) they were probably dairy and cattle farms. …
A History of the County of Essex
… of the eastern boundary another tributary, the Black brook. The southern boundary with Colchester follows the Salary brook, a tributary of the Colne. 54 There have been no known … 57 Numerous springs give rise to streams such as the Black brook. 58 The extensive water meadows along the Stour ( c. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… first two had by 1650 been renamed High field and Bottom Brook field respectively. High field, south of the village, … baulks and field ways, and as 373 a. in 1840. Bottom Brook field to the west and Down field to the north-west were … pasture, 97 a. c. 1694 as in 1840, lay by the western brook, probably including what was called Long meadow in …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… strip runs southward from it, bounded on the west by a brook rising near the St. Neots road. Except for sloping … Overhall grove on land sloping down to the western brook, though reduced by medieval assarting to c. 20 a. by … a street running north-eastwards parallel to the nearby brook, 27between two small greens. The larger north-eastern …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… except in the N.E. where the down-cutting of the Grendon Brook has exposed a large area of Great Oolite Limestone. The … Easton Road and London Road on land sloping E. to a small brook (SP 904590). Here there are at least three large …