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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… from being situated on the Barrell farm, is now quite dry. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans. Bickmersh …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… Secular a(2). Homestead Moat and two Fishponds, both now dry, S.W. of the church. b(3). Homestead Moat, round the …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… of the south-west parish boundary follows the Billesdon brook. On the south side of Life Hill, just below the crest, … member of the family of Digby of Tilton and later of Stoke Dry (Rut.). 77 The name first occurs in Billesdon in 1272, … Portbridge Field, named from the bridge over the Coplow brook about a mile along the road to Leicester, to the north …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… along their edges. The pond in the tributary valley is now dry but was formerly 20 m. by 180 m. As they stand all these …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… E. by Great Billing. Its E. boundary is formed by Billing Brook and its S. boundary by the R. Nene. The subsoil is … Clay with some alluvium along the sides of the Billing Brook and alluvium and river gravel along the Nene valley …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of the manor of Bradley, separated from each other by a brook which, rising at Sedgley, about two miles distant, …
A History of the County of Sussex
… or projecting ridge of land: it lies between the Binsted brook on the west and a tributary, the streams along much of … rise at intervals along the scarp above the Binsted brook. A small stream rising in the centre of the parish … within Binsted. West of the church it crosses the Binsted brook by a footbridge called Kenimore bridge in 1727. 18 A …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Saxon signifying a bridge, in reference to a bridge over a brook, now called Hickford bridge. It comprises 3028 acres, by measurement; the soil is various, consisting of dry loam resting on clay marl of a whitish colour, and of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… from the former of which it is separated only by a small brook. On every side, except the north-west, it is approached …