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A History of the County of Hertford
… the parish, standing 731 ft. above the ordnance datum, is a monument in the form of a granite column, erected in 1832 to the memory of Francis, … extensive common on the east side of the parish, which is a continuation of the great common of Berkhampstead. The only …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… (xv cent.); Bessell's Lee (xvi cent.). Bessels Leigh is a small parish containing just over 900 acres. Its boundaries are thus given in a charter of 959 1: 'First from Sandford 2 to the foul … stood near the church, and formerly consisted of a double quadrangle, with an L-shaped wing projecting towards …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… hundred, though the hundred of Twyford extends itself over a narrow district of the northeast part of this parish into … is various, on the hill on which the village stands, it is a sand, intermixed with much of the rock or sand stone, which … of it, and towards Horsemonden green, the rest of it is a stiff miry clay in winter, excepting the high road, hardly …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… increased by the culture of turnips; the vallies are a sertile and rich loam, the northern part of the parish is … is ever ploughed. The town of Dartford is situated in a valley, between two hills, which rise suddenly and sleep at … are chalk pits, which have been worked underneath to a considerable extent, and have rather a fearful and …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… is situated opposite to East Farleigh, than which it has a far less rustic and more ornamented appearance. The soil like that is a fertile loam, slightly covering the quarry rock, from under … of air, the rich variety of prospect, adorned by a continued range of capital seats, with their parks and …
A History of the County of Hertford
… Kumynton (xiv cent.); Kympton (xv cent.). Kimpton is a parish of 3,677 acres, lying on the Bedfordshire border, … west of Codicote. The northern and southern parts reach a height of 450 ft., but the rest is some 100 ft. lower. The … and the village lies in the lower parts, being built along a road running east and west. The street has several …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… at no great distance from the summit of them. It is a large parish, being about six miles in length, and about … on the east side of the Stone-street way, where it is a dreary and barren country of rough grounds, covered with … called Rhode, the other Stelling Minnis; of the latter, a small part only being within this parish, there are numbers …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… in the Textus Roffensis, LEAGA, which in Saxon signifies a feeding, or pasture. THIS PARISH is about three miles and … length from north to south, and somewhat less than two and a half in breadth, it lies below the sand hills, in the … dry than the parishes last described; the soil is mostly a stiff loam; the lower parts, next the river, are much …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… word Pen, the height or top of any thing, and byrst, a wood. 1 It is called in some antient records, Pen cestre, … camp or fortress antiently situated here. There is a district in this parish, called Hallborough, which is … parishes last described, as is the soil, for the most part a stiff clay, being well adapted to the large growth of …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… from the church, at the southern boundary of it, where a branch of the river Medway separates this county from Sussex, throughout all which the soil remains a stiff clay; the remaining part of this parish is in the hundred of Warchlingstone, which stretches across a narrow district, by Mitchell's and Tophill farms, and …