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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… soil of the lower grounds is principally clay, and on the hills, gravel, with a substratum of chalk. The living is a … 328; patrons, alternately, the Bishop of Lincoln, and M.D. Dalison, Esq.: the tithes were commuted for land and a … limestone, and is partly loam on various subsoils; the hills are composed of magnesian limestone, and the substratum …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire
… Castle (Hill Fort) lies on a spur of the Barton Hills, 1 mile S.W. of Hexton, and occupies the W. half of a … Church of St. Faith, stands at the foot of the Barton Hills, at the S.W. end of the village. The walls are covered …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… ground sloping gently towards the river between 70 m. and 100 m. above OD, on gravel and Middle Lias Clay. In … across Upper Lias Clay to a high area known as the Heyford Hills, covered by Northampton Sand at 130 m. above OD. … 527; J. Bridges, Hist of Northants., I (1791), 519; G. Baker, Hist. of Northants., I (182230), 191; VCH …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… and gravels, sloping gently S. to the river between 70 m. and 100 m. above OD, but in the N. the land rises steeply across Lias … Broad ditches or hollow-ways existed in a few places (e.g. SP 664591), passing between the furlongs, but their date …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… lands consist partly of a flat narrow vale, and partly of hills, the latter gradually rising from the former till they … with fine rich pastures and meadows, and the sides of the hills affording excellent oats, wheat, and barley, and other … and St. Hilary Cottage. The Rev. John Montgomery Traherne, M.A., F.R.S., and F.S.A., is lord of the manor of St. Hilary, …
Alumni Oxonienses
… 1650; postmaster Merton Coll. 1651, B.A. 8 Feb., 1652-3, M.A. 22 June, 1655, rector of Feniton, Devon, 1656, ejected … rector of Clifton Maybancks, Dorset, 1692; licenced (v.g.) 19 Jan., 1693-4, to marry Esther Codrington, of Bristol; … 12 July, 1664), B.D. 1682, D.D. 1703 (Merllin, s. William Hills, of London, gent., admitted to St. John's Coll., …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… N.W.) High Easter is a small village and large parish 7 m. N.W. of Chelmsford. The Parish Church is interesting. … incomplete, 14th-century; also a roundel with the letter M., late 14th or 15th-century. Monuments: In churchyardE. of … badly worn. Secular Homestead Moats. b(2). Maiden's Tye, 1 m. N.E. of the church. b(3). At site of Rainbow Lodge, 2 m. …
A History of the County of Somerset
… had a chapel in the Middle Ages, 16 lies just below the 15-m. contour on the edge of King's Sedgemoor, 1 km. N. and NE. … and tenor by Bridgwater makers Thomas Bayley (1763) and G. Davis (1795). The treble is by Llewellins and James of … MSS. 10632, 10656, 11216, 11244, 11246, 11272-3. e.g. Cal. Inq. p.m. xi, pp. 393-4; S.R.S. xvii. 94; xxv. 86. …