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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… lies c. 3.5 km. ENE. of Calne. 41 The parish consisted of a main part and of the detached Cowage to the north-west. The … A military airfield opened in 1916, later the airfield of R.A.F. Yatesbury, lay south of Juggler's Lane on land in Compton …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… 5 m. S.W. of Wareham; the greater part of it comprises a roughly rectangular block, mainly on Chalk, sloping N. from … round it until that time (Map of Coombe Farm, 1770, D.C.R.O.). The heathland in the N.E. of the parish was all … only fourteen taxable householders in the village (C. A. F. Meekings, Dorset Hearth Tax Assessments (1951), 79). An …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… sea on the S., midway between Wareham and Swanage. From a narrow coastal strip on Kimmeridge Clay, the land rises … son-in-law George Stanley Repton; the drawings are in the R.I.B.A. Library (Guy Repton Bequest, K1/24/1 and 2). The … in 1835, and that the first stone was laid by Lady F. I. Bankes, younger daughter of the 1st Earl of Eldon, on …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… alleged hill-fort 1 whose existence is dubious (p. xxix). A Dobunnic gold coin inscribed BODVOC, found at Birdlip, is … 812. PPS, XV (1949), 18890. Additional data from Mr. J. F. Rhodes, Gloucester City Museum. Early Celtic Art (Festival … gradients than those of the modern road on Birdlip Hill. R.A.F., VAP F21 58/RAF/1970: 01201 (Birdlip Hill). Witts …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… SE, cSY 78 NW, dSY 79 SW) Dorchester, the County Town and a municipal borough, stands on the right bank of the river … property is dated in a later hand ' c. 1832' (D.C.R.O.); a third map on a scale of 10 ft. to 1 m. and dated … In N. aisleon W. wall, (8) of William Cuming, M.D., F.R.C.P. Edin., and also Fellow 'of the Societies of …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… Rouse DUNTISBOURNE ROUSE (4 miles N.W. of Cirencester) A poorly marked Dyke (SP 001075) in the E. of the parish is … about 25 acres on a spur between the valleys of the R. Frome and a tributary, 2 miles S.W. of the village. The N. … of the hillfort, are in Gloucester City Museum. R.A.F., VAP 3G TUD/UK 102: 50256. C.U.A.P., OAP AMK 71, AMZ 61, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… the latter which run approximately at right angles across a ridge or spur. Linear Dykes: four of the nine examples are … one to be dated even approximately: it appears from an R.C.H.M. excavation to be of the Late Bronze Age. Attached to … slight and mostly only traceable on air photographs (R.A.F. V.A.P. CPE/UK 1934: 5063), runs from about 84438941 to …
A History of the County of Essex
… the largest of the four Colne parishes, was the site of a medieval market and a 19th-century engineering works. It … More houses were built at the Croft, on a site given by R. Hunt and Co., in 1935. 52 Atlas, De Vere, and Dudley Roads … for bombers and airborne transport aircraft by the U.S.A.F. from 1943 to 1944 and then by the R.A.F. until its closure …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… activity. Two are probably bells, one within group (A). Barrows (613) lie on chalk N. of the River Piddle. (A) … are shown on an estate map of 1777 by I. Taylor (in D.C.R.O.). Confused accounts exist of six 19th-century … Diam. 39 ft., ht. 4 ft. Excavation trench across centre. (F) Chaldon Down Group (SY 78 SE). Five bowls on flat summit …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… to 170 ft. in the S.; it is drained by the Orchard Water, a small brook on the E. boundary of the parish. Until the … Register of Shaftesbury Abbey (B.M., Harley MS. 61, f. 51V.), reciting pre-conquest matter. Ecclesiastical (1) … wide area in the central and southern parts of the parish (R.A.F., V.A.P., CPE/UK 2018: 31783208). …
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