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Calendar of Border Papers
… defencyve arrayes, for to repayre to the walls, and the beacon to be sett in fyre, for the warning of the wardenry." …
A History of the County of Somerset
… The surface is for the most part hilly, but only Dunkery Beacon exceeds by a very little 1,700 feet, so that we look … the Bristol and English Channels, and attaining at Dunkery Beacon a height of 1,700 feet above the sea. It is drained by … which descend from Exmoor and the Brendon Hills. Dunkery Beacon reaches 1,707 feet; Lucott Hill, 1,512; Elworthy …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… with Sandholme were made with those of the Hunsley Beacon division of Harthill wapentake. 18 At other times the … from lists of freeholders in Holderness and Hunsley Beacon. 20 A legal opinion given in 1792 that the Beverley …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in the chapelry of Kilnwick, union of Driffield, Bainton-Beacon division of the wapentake of Harthill, E. riding of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… or tumulus, supposed to have been either the site of a beacon, or the burial-place of some departed hero. Brandon …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a parish, in the union of Beverley, partly in the Hunsley-Beacon division of the wapentake of Harthill, and partly in …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… extremity, is a lofty elevation called the Ward; also Beacon hill, rising 724 feet above the level of the sea, and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… township, in the parish of Bubwith, union of Howden, Holme-Beacon division of the wapentake of Harthill, E. riding of …