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A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… north-east to south-west by the Castle Cary to Somerton road and the LondonPenzance rail line, the latter cutting off … the Brue in the north. The village grew up beside the main road but by the later 17th century a straggling line of … had been built on a strip of land running south from that road between the two medieval open fields towards the meadows …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in making gloves for the manufacturers in Worcester. The road from Bromyard to Worcester passes through the hamlet. … 1175 inhabitants. The village of Newport, on the great road from Gloucester to Bristol, is situated in this tything, … 668 inhabitants. The parish is intersected by the road from Hereford to Monmouth, and consists of 1820 acres, …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… licensed the prior and monks of Carisbrooke to hold a road going through their priory from the south gate to the … day and night, and in exchange for which they made another road, 40 feet long, to the west of the said priory, with the …
A History of the County of Northampton
… Weedon-le-Street from its situation on the Watling Street road. It was certified in the hydarium temp. Henry II. that … the stump of the gallows is visible not far from the high road.' 14 The Valor of 1535 estimated the annual value to …
Historical Account of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
… Plummer Tower. From this place it runs northwards up the road now formed on the scite of the town-wall, and, at the … end of Byker Hill. Here it crosses the Shields turnpike road, and runs along the east side of the cottages, until it … the corn-mill, through the oil-mill field, and crosses the road to the corner of Red Barns, or Stepney garden-wall. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… been partly filled in. a(7). Cottage, on S.W. side of the road, 180 yards W. of the church, has lean-to modern … N. end. b(8). Cottage, standing back from W. side of the road, 1400 yards W. of the church, has a later addition on … The roof is thatched. b(10). Cottage, on E. side of road, 800 yards S.W. of (9), is of late 17th or early …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… 13 miles east of York, just south of the main York-Hull road. 1 The largely depopulated village of Waplington is less … the parish. In 1415 frequent flooding, presumably on the road through Allerthorpe and Waplington to the mother-church … the parish boundary. Allerthorpe is situated on a minor road which branches from the York-Hull road and crosses the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… by the Pocklington canal, and it is also contiguous to the road between York and Market-Weighton. The living is annexed … is pleasantly situated about half a mile from the great road between London and Edinburgh. The living is a perpetual … of Warwick, 2 miles (N. W. by W.) from Coventry, on the road to Birmingham; containing 963 inhabitants. It comprises …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… county of Hereford, 4 miles (S. E.) from Kington, near the road to Hereford; containing 642 inhabitants. It comprises … of York, 1 mile (S. E.) from Huddersfield, on the old road to Sheffield; comprising the townships of Almondbury, … and the views from the heights, along which passes the road from Gloucester to Bristol, are beautiful and extensive, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… Friends' Meeting House (Plate 31), on the W. side of the road, 1,000 yards N. of the church, is of one storey, … of the church. a(8). Cottage, on the N.E. side of the road, 50 yards N. of (6), has a modern addition on the N.W. … a(9). Green House, two tenements, on the S. side of the road, 200 yards E. of (8), has modern additions at the W. …