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A History of the County of Bedford
… plantations. 1 Its western boundary is formed by the River Ouse, in the neighbourhood of which the land is liable to … year for erecting certain flood-gates and mills upon the Ouse, whereby the plaintiff's property was destroyed. 108 The …
A History of the County of Bedford
… permanent grass. 2 The parish is watered by the River Ouse, which forms the southern boundary. The slope of the … end of the village, has a bridge of ten arches across the Ouse. Colworth, which is described as a hamlet of Sharnbrook … A sixth estate in Sharnbrook, known at the present day as OUSE MANOR, had its origin in the various grants made by the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… which forms the watershed between the Thames and the Ouse. 4 Most of it is a bleak and treeless tableland, 300 …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Southese (xiv cent.). The parish of Southease lies in the Ouse valley about 3 miles south of Lewes. It covers an area …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… (xv cent.). This parish is bounded on the east by the Ouse, dividing it from Great Paxton, which is reached by a … to Huntingdon on ground rising westward from the River Ouse. The church stands near the crossing of two roads, and … a quarter of a mile to the south of it, and west of the Ouse, is Boughton Lodge, another 17th-century house now …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… separately from the booths below. 64 The crossing of the Ouse at first attracted visitors to the town, and in this way …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… of St. Neots parish is mainly Oxford Clay. The river Ouse forms the western boundary and its tributaries the Hen … a ford or ferry 5 and later the bridge across the Ouse. Main roads from Huntingdon, Kimbolton and Bedford … the height of its prosperity in consequence of making the Ouse navigable here. Immediately to the east of the bridge is …
A History of the County of Bedford
… site may be determined as the large earthworks near the Ouse, beside the footpath which leads to Pavenham, 62 and … 140 acres in extent, and the right of free fishery in the Ouse. 63 CHURCH The church of ST. MARY THE VIRGIN consists of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… way; while the Birne, 4 a small tributary of the Great Ouse, demarcates the parish for a stretch on the north-east. … 19th cent. as an elevated table-land on the S. bank of the Ouse near Evenley Mill: Baker, Northants, i. 573. N. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… parish on the north-west; the Birne, a tributary of the Ouse, on the north-east, while in the south much of the …