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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… has a commodious landing-place for coal, lime, and gravel; on its banks are some mills, and there are other large mills … the Hall, now a farmhouse. Divine service is performed on Sunday afternoon in a small chapel subordinate to the … Drayton-in-Hales, Drayton division of the hundred of North Bradford, N. division of Salop; containing 268 inhabitants. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… containing 942 inhabitants. This place is situated on the road from Ipswich to Bury St. Edmund's, and was … of the largest horse-fairs in England is held at Woolpit on September 16th, and a large fair for bullocks on the 18th … union of Drayton, Drayton division of the hundred of North Bradford, N. division of Salop, 7 miles (N. N. E.) from …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… containing 157 inhabitants. The parish is situated on the road from London to Dovor, and comprises by … Woodstock; containing 1129 inhabitants. The parish lies on the banks of the river Glym, and comprises about 4000 … parts hilly, and the scenery diversified. The Kennet and Avon canal passes through the parish. The living is a …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… the parish contains East Wick Farm, which possibly stands on the site of what was a small village in the Middle Ages. … 96 The parish boundary follows a dry valley and a ridge on the south-east, but no prominent natural feature marks it … 99 An intermittent head stream of the Christchurch Avon flows from north-east to south-west across the south …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… situation near a fordable part of the river Severn, and on the confines of a thick forest, it was selected as a place of strength and security. On the expulsion of that people by the Romans, it was … part of the county, including the Valley of the Avon, the adjoining uplands to the north of that river, and …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Richard [illegible] John Plebey, Jobe Pengory and others on behalf of William Taylar. Ref.110 BA1/1/136/25 (1680) … did heartofore severall hundred of yeares agoe erect on the land belongine to the said former Lord Bishopp and … bridge consistinge of seaven arches over the river of Avon in the parish of Eckington fitt and convenient for all …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… remains of a Roman tessellated pavement were discovered on Broad-street common: the building of which it formed the … was divided into five separate apartments, with a passage on the western side extending through the whole length; the … which is carried on to a great extent. The Leeds and Bradford canal bounds the chapelry on the north. The chapel, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… considerable woods of oak, ash, beech, hazel, and birch. On the summit of Leith Hill, which is the highest in the … in the chapelry of Atworth, parish, union, and hundred of Bradford, Westbury and N. divisions, and Trowbridge and Bradford subdivisions, of Wilts, 5 miles (W. by N.) from …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Hill and Leaton and west of Wrockwardine, and tuff, on which Wrockwardine village lies. 93 From those high … troops in 1645-6. 94 Most of the rest of the parish lies on boulder clay or sand and gravel, while some terrace gravel … Man. and Other Est. V.C.H. Salop. i. 315, 332; above, Bradford hundred. E. Ekwall, Concise Oxf. Dict. Eng. P.N. …