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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… is of irregular shape and covers 730 hectares, immediately S. of the R. Nene, here flowing at about 50 m. above OD, … (1971), 7, Cogenhoe (1)). a(3) Iron Age Site (SP 831605), S. of Cogenhoe village, on sand at 70 m. above OD. When a … unusual situation of the isolated church, set on a high hill-top with the village some distance away, might suggest …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the late 16th century and the late 18th. In 1656 Goode's farm was leased with 3 yardlands of arable and 10 named … crop of Broad close was valued at 18 and that of Jordan's close at 1, implying considerable acreages. 75 Old … seems to have included the extraparochial area of Osney hill, also called Cogges wood in 121617. 86 There seems to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 12 boys and 12 girls aged 6-9 years. Blake also left £1 10 s. a year for the upkeep of the schools, and £5 a year for … containing 80 children in the parish, including Blake's two schools. 14 The following year there were just the two … of glebe land with a large Sunday schoolroom, formerly a barn, between Cogges church and the vicarage garden was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… perimeter of Cogges wood; from the west corner of Osney Hill, it ran south-west along Madley brook, Madley Lane, and … wood in the north-east. River meadows run along the parish's entire south-western edge. The Witney-Bladon road, an … Manor Farm, probably originated with Archbishop de Grey's purchase of half the manor in 1241; it was called the …
Survey of London
… and a half acres south of the present line of St. Alban's Grove seem also at this period to have been the freehold … were valued at nearly 510, a sum which included hay in barn, leases at Kensington, a small debt due from Samuel … sold what proved to be worthless silver mines at Mineral Hill, Nevada. 73 Besides these, Grant through the Credit …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… Colchester 14. COLCHESTER (D.c.) (O.S. 6 in. (a)xxvii. N.E. (b)xxvii. S.E. (c)xxviii. N.W. (d)xxviii. S.W. (e)xxxvi. N.E.) … (5). The North Gate has left no trace of itself, but North Hill seems to follow the line of a Roman street, though the …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… Cold Ashton COLD ASHTON (25 miles s.w. of Cirencester) For a linear dyke probably of Iron Age date on Freezing Hill, see Doynton (1). A burial in a stone coffin, possibly … the manor house in 1935. 1 The 'ancient earthwork' on Tog Hill (about ST 730721), described by Playne 2 and noted by …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… parish of Ponteland, union and W. division of Castle ward, S. division of Northumberland, 9 miles (N. W.) from … Prestwich-cum-Oldham, union of Oldham, hundred of Salford, S. division of the county of Lancaster, 7 miles (N. E. by N.) … are some hills in the parish, of which that called Pen Hill, supposed to be the highest in the county, commands an …
A Dictionary of London
… Cole Harbour Stairs - College Hill Cole Harbour Stairs At the south end of Coleharbour in … from the Westgate to make this derivation likely. Riley's suggestion is that the name was derived from the "coalmen" … Moor (Mem. p. xix.). The earliest forms suggest an owner's name. Near the Swan's Nest Public-house, a pit or well full …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… the Forest of Dean by the early 17th century. 99 The town's prosperity was enhanced by a grant of a market in 1661 and … Farm, Lower Lydbrook, Reddings near Lydbrook, and Pope's Hill near Littledean, long regarded as parts of the tithing, … when more houses were built to the north. A farmhouse and barn standing next to the Forest at Five Acres were possibly …