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A History of the County of Oxford
… suit at the hundred court of Wootton by Richard, earl of Cornwall. Earl Edmund held courts for his villeins at …
A History of the County of Oxford
… III, who gave them in 1227 to his brother Richard, earl of Cornwall (d. 1272). 66 Richard's son Edmund granted Yarnton … The house was sold in 1965. In 1895 the college bought Hill farm, whose land adjoined Jackson's farm, from Sir …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… forest; the chief are some oak-trees on the West Faldshope hill, but they are more remarkable for their great age than … of that family were killed. A portion, also, of Elibank Castle still overhangs the river Tweed; and the lower portions of the massive walls of Dryhope Castle, the seat of the Scott family, are entire. To the west …
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, … used the chapel as a mission room of the chapel in Castle Street, Calne. 86 The congregation at Yatesbury in …
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 known by this name, Richard Duke of York having …
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
… but is much distinguished in history for its ancient castle. Of the original foundation of the structure, nothing … of it occurs in the history of the siege of Aberystwith Castle by Grufydd ab Rhŷs, when the governor of that fortress … with the Established Church. Upon the summit of a gravelly hill near the village are some remains of the ancient castle …