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A History of the County of Sussex
… Farm, was transferred to West Grinstead before 1891, and a second detached portion of 83 a. between Steyning and Henfield parishes, including Heath Barn, was transferred … it was an important route, 35 and in 1764 it was made a turnpike as the Horsham-Steyning road, 36 forming one means …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of Wychwood Forest, lies c. 4 miles (7 km) west of Witney and 2 miles (4 km) east of Burford. 1 In 1881 the civil parish, long and irregular in shape, comprised 2,223 a. (900 ha.) and … called the 'London highway' and in 1705 'Oxford Road'. 48 Turnpike and Inclosure Roads The main eastwest road was …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Midridge, Midridge-Grange, Old-Park, Westerton, and Windleston; while the N. W. division includes the … of Bishop-Auckland, the chapelries of St. Helen Auckland and Hamsterley, and the townships of St. Andrew, West … 173 inhabitants. It is situated near the railway and turnpike-road from Leeds to Selby. The impropriate tithes …
Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum
… August 1654 An Ordinance for ejecting Scandalous, Ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters. August, 1654 [28 August, 1654.] … Counties. Whereas by the continuance of divers scandalous and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters in many …
A History of the County of London
… a spot once occupied by a church in honour of Holy Cross and St. Mary Magdalene. The abbey of Waltham had some kind of … there, but relinquished it on compensation by the queen, 3 and the new priory was freed from all subjection save to the … 176; in the thirteenth century the priory held land in 'Hamstead,' co. Surrey, 177 and in the reign of Henry VI a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the union of Marlborough, hundred of Selkley, Marlborough and Ramsbury, and N. divisions of Wilts, 6 miles (W. by S.) from … among them the very large and remarkable one, close to the turnpike-road, called Silbury hill, which covers an area of …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… containing the village of Avening, part of Nailsworth, and the hamlets of Forestgreen and Windsoredge was elongated in shape, stretching for seven … the hillside through Hazel wood 23 until 1822 when a new turnpike road was made along the valley bottom. 24 On the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… 16 km. south-west of Gloucester between the river Severn and the Forest of Dean. The large parish contained seven … estates, numerous ancient farmsteads, the industrial and trading village of Blakeney which replaced Awre village … that ancient road. 34 The Gloucester-Chepstow road was a turnpike from 1757 until 1871. 35 Improvements carried out …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… PARISH, which lies east of the Fosse way between Ilchester and Shepton Mallet, comprises the village of Babcary to the … partly encircled by the river Cary, the hamlets of Higher and Lower Foddington on low hills to the east, Steart on the flatter ground to the south, and several farmsteads. The river Cary forms most of the …