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A History of the County of Surrey
… Valley on the west and the London clay on the east, and in the north the sandy gravel of Ditton Marsh. Esher is … and adjoins other open land at Fairmile and Ockshot in Cobham parish. The London and Portsmouth road passes … Earl of Clare (Duke of Newcastle 1715) bought the property in 1714 on coming of age, and called it after his own title …
A History of the County of Warwick
… formerly spelt Eatington, is an extensive rural parish in the south-west of the county. The River Stour forms its … lias beds, but there are patches of gravel and some sand. In 1797 there were public stone-pits and quarries in the parish. 1 The hamlet of Lower Ettington is almost …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… Parishes Ewell EWELL, WRITTEN in Domesday, both Ewelle and Etwelle, lies in the valley the next parish southward from Whitfield, alias … Bewsfield, taking its name from the water or spring rising in it. It was antiently known likewise by the name of Temple …
A History of the County of Warwick
… of which a small piece known as Prior Hackin's Wood is in Exhall parish. The ground here rises on either side to … the manor of Oversley. The parish church stands centrally in the village on the south-east side of the road. The … north of it is the village school. Eight of the houses in the main village show timber-framing of the 17th century …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… GAMLINGAY Until 1958 the parish of Gamlingay, the largest in west Cambridgeshire, comprised 4,460 a. In that year 122 a. were transferred to Hatley, 1 and in 1965 … Grange known as Lambcott wood, and at Woodbury known as Broome wood (later White wood). 12 There was a timbered park …
A History of the County of Oxford
… dictated by the pattern of the already existing furlongs in the open fields. Except in the north, the land at the circumference of the parish … paid partly in kind. In 1673, for example, the widow Broome paid for her 3 yardlands a rent of 26 s. 8 d. a year …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… of 6,407 acres, lies on the borders of Bedfordshire and in 1921 had a population of 685 persons. The banks of the … and south. The soil is chiefly clay with a gravel subsoil in the south. The parish was mainly woodland down to the 13th … Cokett of London was given to Sir John Gascoigne of Cardington (co. Bed.), son and heir of Sir William. 253 …
A History of the County of Worcester
… time part of the forest of Kinver, but was disafforested in 13001, as it had only been included in the forest 'since the Coronation of King Henry.' 1 It … to about 700 ft. Wychbury Hill, a detached hill partly in the parish of Pedmore, attains a height of 700 ft. The …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… LIES the next parish eastward from Upchurch, it is written in antient deeds Halegestow, and is usually called Lower … and to distinguish it from the parish of High Halstow, in the hundred of Hoo. It is a very obscure and unfrequented … part of the inhabitants of this parish, it is navigable in both branches as high up as the stray on the one, and the …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… signifying a nook or corner. 1 There are five boroughs in it, viz. Stroud, Hawe, Hampton, Beltinge, and Thornden. … this parish; and the three next succeeding years, one each in turn, from Reculver, Hothe, and Stourmouth. THIS PARISH is situated about six miles northeastward from Canterbury, in a wild and dreary country; there is a great deal of poor …