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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… parish, 960 acres in area, rises gently from the Caundle Brook in the S., at an altitude of some 200 ft. above … dressings, carries the road to Holwell across the Caundle Brook about m. S. of the village. The bridge was extensively …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire
… about 3 miles N. of the church. a (3). In Moat Wood, now dry and thickly planted. c (4). At Astwick Manor, E. arm …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Two small rills irrigate the soil; namely, Blackpool brook, so called, perhaps, from the tinge which it receives from its source in Marton moss; and Bispham brook, which, after a short course, falls into the Wyre at …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… streams of Bisley parish, in particular the Toadsmoor brook, where tradition locates the first fulling-mill ever … 7 houses. There were several small mills on the Toadsmoor brook at the western boundary of the parish. They were … of Nether Lypiatt in 1689. 60 The highest mill on the brook, recorded in 1824 near the large pond in Toadsmoor …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Frome, while most of the eastern is formed by the Holy brook, most of the western by the Toadsmoor brook, and most of the northern by a tributary of the Slad brook running down the valley formerly called Timbercombe in …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Greys, 26 the house which stood in the valley of the Holy brook below Througham Slad. By the early 1780s the manor had … Edgeworth and divided from the rest of Bisley by the Holy brook, suggests that it may represent the hide which was in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 10 and other small meadows lay in the west by Shill brook. 11 Hunts mead (17 a.), a private meadow in the south-east near Shill brook, was given to Osney abbey by the lord of Alvescot in … the building of weirs across the eastern branch of Shill brook, and in 1951 by the redirecting of the brook's western …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 12th centuries, 5 and in the 19th century followed Shill brook on part of the west, a probably ancient route called … Oxford Clay. Alluvial deposits mark the courses of Shill brook, which divides the parish from west to east, and the northern part of Black Bourton brook, which flows southwards from Shill brook towards the …