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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Lewes; containing 533 inhabitants. It is situated on the road from London to Lewes, by Chailey, and is bounded on the … The parish is situated on the Chester and Whitchurch road, and comprises about 1320 acres, chiefly land for … John Crockett, near the Wolverhampton road, in the south-western part of the parish; it is a neat structure in the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… rector built a mission church, Christ Church, on the main road in Long Hanborough. 59 Both churches were in use in … bases of the original arches to the nave and aisles, and western buttresses and a spire were added. Shortly after that …
A History of the County of Oxford
… smaller field, the Hide (89 a.), north of the Witney road, which was sometimes divided into Bushy Hide and Corn … assarts which can be identified were on the eastern and western boundaries of the parish, the eastern ones presumably … contained 194 a. in 1609-10. Many of the assarts along the western edge of the parish were pasture by the 17th century, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… from 1873. 7 A new infant school was built in Main Road, Long Hanborough, on land given by the duke of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 17th centuries, forms the short southern and part of the western boundary. Those boundaries have apparently been … unaltered since medieval times, but the remainder of the western boundary, which follows field boundaries from the … sea level at Cook's Corner and on the Church Hanborough road in Long Hanborough, and the lowest, 65 m., in the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… for more than half a week, 2 and were probably employed on road work. The curate said that in the early 1830s in winter … or less . . . has been to walk over about four miles of road'. 3 Some farmers, however, received a few payments for …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 89 A Methodist chapel built on the south side of the main road in Long Hanborough was opened at the end of 1827; it had … of brick with ashlar quoins, on the south side of Main Road, opposite Millwood End, which seems to have remained …
A Dictionary of London
… in the grant, the lane of John Cressyngham forming the western boundary (Grant in L. and M. Arch. Soc. Trans. III. … to Shoe Lane, and is so represented in O.S. 1848-51. This western end was removed for the formation of St. Bride's …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… county of Worcester, 1 mile (N. N. W.) from Upton, on the road to Worcester; containing 1677 inhabitants. A castle here … 45 acres. The church is an ancient structure, with a western porch in the Norman style, and contains some handsome … Grand Junction canal. Within its limits, also, the Great Western railway is conveyed across the valley of the Brent by …
A History of the County of Stafford
… and between Great Chell and Hanley. The mid-19th-century road from Stoke to Endon runs through the eastern part of the … three or four small houses around the Ridge House in the western part of Shelton township c. 1680, 52 but the village … canal represents the original level of the area and its western side has had to be built up some 12 ft., while …