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A History of the County of Oxford
… ago'. 39 Oxey mead, traversed in the 1930s by the Oxford northern bypass, was sold in 1939 to Oxfordshire County …
A History of the County of Oxford
… over the stream whose bed the canal took. 70 The Oxford northern bypass, the A40, was completed in 1935 71 across the …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Ettrick, and the Tweed, which last in some parts forms the northern boundary. The Yarrow has its source in the hills of … which is about a mile and a half in circuit, by a narrow neck of land, or sandbank, thrown up by opposite currents of … containing 3450 inhabitants. This island, one of the most northern of the Shetland group, lies to the north-east of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 92 Two new farmsteads were built, one each side of the northern road to Avebury, 93 and that road may perhaps have …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… situated on the navigable river Derwent, which forms the northern boundary of the parish, and also divides the North …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the Hastings family acquired Boys wood ( c. 72 a.) on the northern edge of the parish, and it descended thereafter with … mid 19th century a third of the farm, chiefly its higher, northern part, was arable. 58 Before 1876 most of the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and lit by an oriel window. The wings were 2-storeyed, the northern, service, wing having an original stone stack, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 124, while engaged in restraining the incursions of the northern hordes. In the reign of Commodus, the Caledonians … reign, finding that the city of York was besieged by the northern Britons, came over into Britain, with his sons … forces in that country, and made an irruption into the northern part of the kingdom. Sir Thomas Rokesby, however, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in the southern part is a red fertile loam, and in the northern productive corn land; the surface is hilly, and …
A History of the County of Somerset
… common in the other two. For instance the great northern and red-throated divers, guillemots, razorbills and … the county, for the river Avon would only affect the northern district. While considering the physical features of … bird was caught alive at Cheddar, October 1888. 247. Great Northern Diver. Colymbus glacialis, Linn. Accidental. Mr. …