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A History of the County of Gloucester
… Chepstow. Roughly rectangular in shape, it rises from the River Severn to the high ground of Tidenham Chase. The … 1882 formed the parish, comprising 3,303 a. excluding river foreshore and tidal water. 1 The area included Madgett, … narrow neck of land extending to the steep valley of the River Wye opposite Tintern Abbey. In 1882 the detached …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Abbey Passage or Ferry farm on the east bank of the River Wye opposite Tintern Abbey, and Brockweir and Townsend …
A History of the County of Somerset
… partly obliterated by the construction of the Huntspill River in 1940. Some of the southern boundary is a lane or … the site not only of part of the course of the Huntspill River but also of two holding ponds built like the river to provide water for the Royal Ordnance Factory in …
A History of the County of Sussex
… lies at the junction of three lanes in a deep bend of the River Rother, which with a tributary stream forms the western …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is generally clay, alternated with red loam. The small river Devon, and the Nottingham and Grantham canal, pass … 500 acres, and is bounded on the east by a branch of the river Ouse: the village is pleasantly situated on the river, and the Grand Junction canal passes through the …
The Environs of London
… from London. The parish is bounded on the north by the river Thames, except in that part where it extends on the opposite side of the river into Essex, being there bounded by Barking, and … on the Essex coast 2, 50 marsh on the Kentish side of the river, about 40 acres of arable, 10 occupied by a market …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… Woolwich, stands on rising ground on the S. side of the river. The existing building replaced the earlier church in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 1129 inhabitants. The parish lies on the banks of the river Glym, and comprises about 4000 acres, chiefly arable … in WoottonWawen township. The parish is situated on the river Alne, and comprises 8518 a. 3 r. 15 p., of which 4100 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… of Northampton and the R. Nene. It is separated from the river for most of its length by Hardingstone parish except at …
A History of the County of Oxford
… acres of central Oxfordshire, bounded on the east by the river Cherwell, on the north by its tributary the Swere, and …