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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… S.E., (d)XLI, N.W., (e)XLI, S.W.) Woolhope is a parish and small village 7 m. S.E. of Hereford. The church and Capler Camp are the principal monuments. Ecclesiastical … dressings of the same material; the roofs are covered with tiles and slates. The earliest work in the church is of mid …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… covered by an area of Plateau Gravel. Woolland village and the former hamlet of Chitcombe are spring-line settlements at the junction of the Chalk and the Gault Clay. Woolland occurs in Domesday Book (Vol. I, … (Plate 40); above, figure of lady at prayer wearing ruff and farthingale; below, on inscription plate (20 ins. by 13 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… near the middle of the parish. The walls are of stone and pebble-rubble with dressings of Weldon and Ketton stone; the roofs are covered with tiles and lead. There is some re-used 12th-century material, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is situated on the road from Ipswich to Bury St. Edmund's, and was formerly a market-town. The parish comprises 1898 a. … is celebrated for a remarkably fine vein of brick-earth, and the white bricks made here are in great estimation. One of the largest …
The Environs of London
… to its etymology. Situation. Boundaries. Quantity of land, and how occupid. Soil. Chalk-pit. Land-tax. Woolwich lies on … the banks of the Thames, within the hundred of Blackheath, and at the distance of nine miles from London. The parish is … of the river into Essex, being there bounded by Barking, and Barking-creek which separates it from Eastham. On the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… Ancient and historical monuments in east London Woolwich 12. … Woolwich consists of the parishes of Woolwich, Plumstead and Eltham. The principal monuments are Eltham Palace, Well Hall and Eltham Lodge. Ecclesiastical a(1) Parish Church of St. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… parish, 702 hectares in area, lies S. of Northampton and the R. Nene. It is separated from the river for most of … gain a narrow access to the Nene. Its boundary on the W. and S. sides is formed by the Wootton Brook while its … Limestone in the N. down through the limestones, clay and silts of the Estuarine Series to Northampton Sands and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Fitzpaine is a parish 2 m. N.E. of Lyme Regis. The church and Wootton House are the principal monuments. Ecclesiastical … The walls are of flint rubble with freestone dressings and the roofs are slate-covered. There is some 12th-century … material reused in the building, but the Crossing, N. and S. Transepts and Nave were rebuilt probably in the second …
A History of the County of Oxford
… river Cherwell, on the north by its tributary the Swere, and on much of the south by the rivers Thames and Windrush. Part of the western boundary passed through the … of Wychwood. The landscape varies from the flat meadows and oolitic gravels of the Upper Thames in the south to the …