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A History of the County of Middlesex
… ground north of London, and 51 degrees in the Thames Valley. Rainfall varies much more considerably than is …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… For the local hill farmers' disappointment when the Clun valley failed to secure designation as an environmentally …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… were parliamentary inclosures of Fovant, Alvediston, Broad Chalke, and Bower Chalke in 1792, but already in 15678 about 11 per cent. of … around Marlborough, in the Pewsey Vale, and the Avon Valley, but the movement of rent was generally much the same …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… particularly near Salisbury and up the Wylye valley, where dairy stock were now grazed. 84 This remedied … so it continuedwithy beds at Bulbridge, hatches at Broad Chalke, new roads from Wishford. One interesting feature of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… to the original grass, whether this had been downland or valley pasture, and the loss consequent on the breaking-up … farms which fell into hand on the Wilton estate in Bower Chalke, Broad Chalke, and Bishopstone, milk sold to a Salisbury dairy …
A History of the County of Somerset
… wood, and in the east 220 m. on Hawkridge Hill. The valley bottoms, converging in the north-east where Hawkridge … fertile lower slope of the Quantocks, included a shallow valley watered by a tributary of the Durleigh brook, between … in or near an ash wood, lies sheltered on the side of a valley called Holcombe running north-east. It comprises the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… places chalk and flint. The town is situated in a fertile valley; it has a willow-factory for bonnet frames, in which …