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Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… Lias Clay at about 450 ft. above O.D., near the head of a combe, one of several within a broad and deep N.-facing … on Scotsquarr Hill. Arch J, CIX (1952), 27, fig. 2. R.A.F., VAP CPE/UK 2098: 30945. C.U.A.P., OAP AN 445. …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Haresfield Introduction HARESFIELD HARESFIELD, a rural parish, lies 5 miles south of Gloucester. The ancient … Co. 20 North of the airfield is an outlying camp of R.A.F. Quedgeley. A wartime military camp in the former park had …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… three other villages, Heathrow, Longford, and Sipson, and a farm with a few scattered cottages called Perry Oaks. In … its subsequent development by the Air Ministry as Heathrow R.A.F. station. This entailed the complete demolition of Heathrow …
A History of the County of Northampton
… south by the Buckinghamshire parish of Hanslope (and to a small extent by Grafton Regis), on the north-west by Ashton … owned about 480 a. in Hartwell, William Castleman 420 a., F.W.T. Vernon Wentworth 320 a. and the trustees of Whalley's … in Hartwell after the Second World War, together with the R.A.F. maintenance unit, also in Salcey Forest, until this …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… 6 ins. ST 70 NW, ST 70 NE, ST 71 SW) Hazelbury Bryan is a large parish of 2,400 acres, undulating between 240 ft. and … by several small streams which flow N. and N.W. to the R. Lydden, and N.E. to the R. Stour. A broad band of … with monogram in each tracery light (Plate 139, a, c and f), also fragments of canopies below; in third window, angels …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Hendon Growth after 1850 Growth after 1850. Despite a rising population in the late 19th century, largely around … 1863. 94 Thirty-five acres of the estate were bought by C. F. Hancock of Hendon Hall, who built several houses, 95 as … and Childs Hill's 16,616. 20 After the opening of the G.N.R.'s Mill Hill station (later Mill Hill East) in 1867 a few …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Hendon Social life SOCIAL LIFE. There was a may-pole at Drivers Hill in 1734. 52 Rural sports were held … London life', 9 but from 1920 pageants were staged by the R.A.F. 10 and in 1934 the club's building became the headquarters …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… belong to the Iron Age. Bindon, W. Lulworth (53), is not a true hill-fort but has some comparable features and can be … or Maiden Castle and those 1 mile N. of the latter (R. E. M. Wheeler, Maiden Castle (1943), Plate LXX) are now … just beneath the surface of the inner rampart (J. F. Pennie, Tale of a Modern Genius (1827), II, 85). The …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… boundary except in the extreme north-west where for about a mile both boundaries followed the Shire Ditch, a feeder of … certainly followed the completion in 1838 of the G.W.R. line to Bristol and the west and the opening of West … the station was occupied by the Central Depot of the R.A.F. and, from time to time, other training, signals, and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… gently down to Chiverick's Brook and to the W. it inclines a little more sharply down to the R. Stour, both streams being about 180 ft. above sea-level … Reset in the S.E. front is a date-stone inscribed T.F. 1675. Monuments (1118) The following are 18th-century …