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A History of the County of Oxford
… by Thomas Browne (d. 1621) who rented a malthouse by the river (later the White Hart inn) and built another at his new … 'soft skins' and white leather, and, in a limepit near the river, a further 350 sheepskins, 25 doeskins, and 3 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… le Pool, comprising c. 17 a. on the south bank of the river Glyme; the fee farm rent of 2 13 s. 4 d. suggests that … the 'bays' or sluices in the meadows, repaired the river banks, and cleansed the river, the ditches, and the corporation brook; 52 the last, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… lies 8 miles (12 km.) north-west of Oxford on the river Glyme close to the east side of Blenheim Park. 1 The …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… cold and pure stream of water, the primary source of the river Axe. Wookey-Hole WOOKEY-HOLE, a tything, partly in the … issues a stream that flows through the village into the river Frome. A fair for cattle and general traffic is held on … 311 inhabitants. The parish is intersected by the river Rother, and comprises about 2300 acres, of which 767 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… of Wareham, covers some 3,000 acres on both sides of the river Frome between 200 ft. and 50 ft. above O.D. The S. part … Clay, well-wooded to the E. around Woodstreet, to the river terraces along the Frome; the N. part, beyond the river terraces, is an extensive area of heathland on Bagshot …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… 1086 at Woolaston and Aluredston, both presumably in the River Severn. 99 The former was included in the gift of the … Horse Pill in 1866 4 and owned the fishing rights in the river between Beachley and Cone Pill. About 1820 the tenant … in 1924, the fishing rights being vested in the Wye River Authority in 1969. 6 The tenants of the Horse Pill …
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 …