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A History of the County of Oxford
… more steeply to over 91 m. in the north-west beyond Spring Hill. North and west of the village the land is Oxford clay, … remained a feature of the area until built over for modern housing. 4 Houses there in 1589 might have fronted the long … vicarage was looted and fired by adherents of William of Stamford, the expelled abbot, presumably because the vicar …
A History of the County of Oxford
… The house was sold in 1965. In 1895 the college bought Hill farm, whose land adjoined Jackson's farm, from Sir …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… forest; the chief are some oak-trees on the West Faldshope hill, but they are more remarkable for their great age than … woodland and plantations, sixty undivided common, and 2522 hill pasture. The surface is generally elevated, rising … and comprises 8400 acres, of which 2000 are meadow and hill-pasture, 100 wood and plantations, 200 undivided common, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… and Nassington were built to designs by J. C. Traylen of Stamford ( Mercury, 21 Oct.). Ecclesiastical (1) The Parish …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… corner takes in the lower, western, slopes of Windmill Hill. 30 Flat and well drained, nearly all Yatesbury's land … and a signals school was built south-west of Windmill Hill and in Yatesbury parish. The station was closed in 1964, … Bourne field, c. 150 a., lay north of the village, and Hill field, c. 175 a., was a long and narrow field extending …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… (11). Cottage, on the E. side of the road at Perrystone Hill, 1,000 yards S. of the church, has exposed …