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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… corner takes in the lower, western, slopes of Windmill Hill. 30 Flat and well drained, nearly all Yatesbury's land … and a signals school was built south-west of Windmill Hill and in Yatesbury parish. The station was closed in 1964, … Bourne field, c. 150 a., lay north of the village, and Hill field, c. 175 a., was a long and narrow field extending …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… (11). Cottage, on the E. side of the road at Perrystone Hill, 1,000 yards S. of the church, has exposed …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… eight yards in breadth, built on the very edge of the hill, with an entrance on the south; within this is another … There are several smaller circles on other parts of the hill, with vestiges of a grove of oaks, strongly indicating … remarkable hills, from the summit of one of which, Newton Hill, the English and Bristol Channels can be discerned. The …
A Dictionary of London
… and P.H. VIII. XIX. (t), p.86). On the east side of Peter Hill (S. 369). York House Wheatley says Baynard's Castle was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in the open fields of Hardwick. 23 In 1708 part of Combe hill in Lew was said to be tithable to Yelford, but no later …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the higher ground in the north of the parish at Rickless Hill (87 m.) and near Home wood ( c. 90 m.), and Oxford clay the hill slopes. 80 The problem of flooding, not entirely solved … of Yelford Manor and along the lower slopes of Rickless Hill before turning south to join the old route at the parish …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… with the Established Church. Upon the summit of a gravelly hill near the village are some remains of the ancient castle … commanding site to the north of the chapel; and on another hill, designated Tommen Vilwyn, is a cairn of tolerable size. … by the parish every fourth year: see Cowbridge. On a hill to the south of the church are some inconsiderable …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… The walls are of local rubble with dressings of Ham Hill and other local stone and the roofs are lead-covered. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… solemnized at York, in 1327. After the battle of Halidown Hill, in 1333, Edward retired to York, where he held a … the smaller valleys of the Western Moorlands, and at Pen-hill, between this and Wensleydale, a kind of Flagstone, used …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York
… of a heavy gun to the Parliamentary battery on Lamel Hill. 86 The besiegers, however, claimed that a breach was …