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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the soil consists of loam. The Oxford canal and the Trent-Valley railway pass through. The living is a discharged …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… lies at 600 ft. above O.D. on the lower slopes of a wide valley, close to the Foxcote Brook. Three irregular pits … spur above ground falling gently E. to a dry re-entrant valley, is now marked, when ploughed, by a thick scatter of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of the river Windrush between Witney and Cogges, at the valley's narrowest point, lies probably on an ancient … 55 A branch of the Burford road may formerly have followed valley contours across the later Witney park, but from the … further south on Burford Road, overlooking the Windrush valley, are dated 1904. Both Hailey Fields and Newland, which …
A History of the County of Oxford
… population. 454 As early as 1962 the new Windrush Valley housing estate, built for workers at Smiths' … Council blocked the sale of houses on the Windrush Valley estate to tenants, since it contained a third of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the previous year. 56 M. Gelling, Early Charters of Thames Valley (1979), pp. 46, 131, 133; Blair, A-S Oxon. 133 and n.; … intro. (parish bdies). Gelling, Early Charters of Thames Valley, p. 141; for a fanciful story concerning the grant, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… also as a child clinic and social centre) on the Windrush Valley housing estate; 131 St Luke's was managed by the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… The town occupies a gentle eminence, in an extensive valley inclosed by lofty hills, which suddenly break into …
A History of the County of Essex
… A band of London clay is exposed along the Colne valley, and bands of alluvium extend alongside the river, … earlier are all timber framed and fairly numer- ous. The valley slopes around the churchyard appear to have been …
A History of the County of Essex
… by Richard Woods. It lay mostly to the south-east of a valley in which two lakes were formed. 14 When the house was …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… was passed in 1845 for making a railway called the Wear-Valley railway: the line runs from the Bishop-Auckland and … an elevated site commanding beautiful views of the Stour valley. William Seabright, in 1620, bequeathed property in …