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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… purposes. The village is situated at the foot of a ridge of limestone rocks, in which lead-ore has been found in …
A History of the County of Stafford
… of the northern boundary with Hollinsclough runs along a ridge, and the river Manifold forms the short eastern … Buxton road. 65 NONCONFORMITY. A Methodist society met at Ridge Head, the home of Isaac Billing on the Longnor road, in … at Hole Carr and at Upper Hulme and once a month at Ridge Head. A Sunday service was also held twice a month at …
A History of the County of Stafford
… The south-western boundary with Heathylee runs along a ridge. On the west Hollinsclough broadens out, taking in the … The land lies at its highest at the west end of the ridge where a house called Summerhill stands at 1,513 ft. (461 m.). The ridge tapers to the south-east, the land dropping gradually …
A History of the County of Stafford
… England. In Heathylee the northern end of Morridge, a long ridge of moorland, reaches 1,535 ft. (468 m.), with the river …
A History of the County of Stafford
… of a small market town, stands on a saddle in the ridge which dominates the area and gives the township its Old … Arms in the early 1950s, 90 and three pairs called Dove Ridge were built in the late 1960s on the road to Top o' th' …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… by scarps, perhaps the sites of former buildings, with ridge-and-furrow beyond. To the N.E. of the hollow-way are … view from the house. Within the same avenue the medieval ridge-and-furrow has been carefully flattened and a raised … N.W. of the house (SP 678650 and 681653) the pre-existing ridge-and-furrow has also been removed though the latter …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… remains of contour and crosscontour strip lynchets, and ridge-and-furrow (e.g. 694032, 694035, and 687034). To the W. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… scenery is grand, and the parish being situated on a high ridge, commands extensive views of the Severn and the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… where Clanfield manor had 25 a. of demesne, 9 and ridge and furrow indicate more open-field arable north and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… runs towards the church from Gillens close, and shallow ridge-and-furrow between the church and the mill may overlie … area of early settlement. 4. Earthworks ( including ridge and furrow) near St Peter's church, Alvescot From the …