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Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… J. R. Collis, World Archaeology (1971), 371; and in D. Hill and M. Jesson (ed.), The Iron Age and its Hill-forts (1971), 97103 (nucleated settlements as market …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… of copper was low, giving a yellowish rather than a golden-reddish tinge to objects such as NAILs and PINs. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… furlongs in the N. of Round Hey Field, around Dam Hill Furlong (SP 875582; RAF VAP CPE/ UK/1994, 31858, 21905, …
A History of the County of Somerset
… cuts a steep-sided valley from east to west between God's Hill (107 m. (352 ft.)) and Yarlington Sleights (127 m. (452 … western boundary at 70 m. (230 ft.). In the east a small hill at Seamark 77 wood (143 m. (468 ft.)) separates the … what was formerly believed to be a British camp on God's Hill is part of a series of medieval lynchets. Those have …
A History of the County of Oxford
… intensive. Of new farms created, the most notable were Hill farm, whose farmhouse is dated 1731, and, probably, Windmill Hill farm. By the later 18th century, however, the number of … there were 5 farms c. 1800: Manor ( c. 235 a.), Windmill Hill ( c. 245 a.), Mead ( c. 175 a.), Hill ( c. 60 a.), and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… more steeply to over 91 m. in the north-west beyond Spring Hill. North and west of the village the land is Oxford clay, … in the area known as the Sands, around Begbroke Hill and Sandy Lane. Much of the village stands on gravel, … have been found over a wide area east of Begbroke Hill, 76 and the Sandy Lane gravel workings have revealed …
A History of the County of Oxford
… The house was sold in 1965. In 1895 the college bought Hill farm, whose land adjoined Jackson's farm, from Sir …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… forest; the chief are some oak-trees on the West Faldshope hill, but they are more remarkable for their great age than … woodland and plantations, sixty undivided common, and 2522 hill pasture. The surface is generally elevated, rising … and comprises 8400 acres, of which 2000 are meadow and hill-pasture, 100 wood and plantations, 200 undivided common, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… corner takes in the lower, western, slopes of Windmill Hill. 30 Flat and well drained, nearly all Yatesbury's land … made apparently between 1773 and 1828 41 and was called Golden Ash Lane in 1885. 42 In the late 20th century access … and a signals school was built south-west of Windmill Hill and in Yatesbury parish. The station was closed in 1964, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… (11). Cottage, on the E. side of the road at Perrystone Hill, 1,000 yards S. of the church, has exposed …