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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 32 price'. 36 The plates were run for in three heats of 4 miles each, followed by a 'course' run off between the … 15 minutes, and won. 45 The usual distance for races was 4 miles, though matches over 6 and even 8 miles were not uncommon. 46 At the closing stages of the race …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… of the Mendip Hills, is another tributary, which for a few miles forms the western boundary of Wiltshire. As would be … as the Box Brook. From Castle Combe down to Box are twelve miles of very good fly water, mostly in private hands. As the … to the 'drowners' from all the farms on its ten miles of water. These entertainments continued until within a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Brake lies well within their country, being only some four miles from the kennels, while the education of the cubs … had hounds stopped, all being by this time many miles from home, while the hunthorses had long since had … in this fine old-fashioned run was little short of 16 miles; the line was over grass the entire time, and not a …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… and has thus provided thousands of anglers with twenty miles of free water, which furnishes perhaps the finest … Luton in Bedfordshire, and flows east-south-east for 10 miles into Hertfordshire and for 16 miles by Hertford to Ware. Thence it flows for 4 miles …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… only being beaten by a yard in this race.) A. Shrubb, 3 miles in 14 min. 17 sec on 21 May 1900 F. Appleby, 15 miles in 1 hr. 20 min. 4 sec " 21 July 1902 W. G. George ran 11 miles 932 yds. in 1 hr " 28 July 1884 G. Crossland ran 20 …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… and Mr. Wright-Nooth. The eighteen-hole course is about 3 miles round, the length of the holes ranging from 150 to 543 … the President's and the Vice President's Cup. Some 4 miles to the east of Stanmore are the links of the Edgware … east side of the main road from Hendon to Mill Hill; and 2 miles to the north of this is the Finchley Golf Club, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… in 1835, says that it extended from Scratch Wood, seven miles from London and then part of Wormwood Scrubbs, to Cirencester, a distance of upwards of eighty miles; while 'Cecil,' writing in 1854, makes Scratch Wood five miles from London, and says that the Old Berkeley country …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… in the afternoon, and to have covered no less than forty miles in her chaise. 52 Both of her immediate successors …