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A History of the County of Oxford
… 1834 Yelford belonged to Witney union, from 1894 to Witney rural district, and from 1974 to West Oxfordshire district. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is rugged, and the scenery barren, with little wood. The deanery of Craven, comprising East and West Staincliffe, part … 60 or 70 to 150 feet high; while Stoupe Brow, vulgarly "Stow Brow," about seven miles to the south of Whitby, rises … Ryedale by a range of hills called by Mr. Marshall, in his Rural Economy of Yorkshire, the Howardian Hills. This part of …
Survey of London
… Paris asserts, 15and his statement has been repeated by Stow 16 and a host of later writers, that Hubert gave his … afterward solde to Walter Grey Archbishop of Yorke." (Stow's Survey of London, Kingsford's edn., II, p. 89). …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Accentor collaris (Scopoli). Accidental. One shot in the Deanery garden at Wells in 1833 (vide Yarrell, i. 297, ed. …