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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Two small rills irrigate the soil; namely, Blackpool brook, so called, perhaps, from the tinge which it receives from its source in Marton moss; and Bispham brook, which, after a short course, falls into the Wyre at …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… lost (formerly in St. Martin Outwich); (4) of Nicholas Wotton, 1482, rector of St. Martin Outwich, small figure of …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… streams of Bisley parish, in particular the Toadsmoor brook, where tradition locates the first fulling-mill ever … 7 houses. There were several small mills on the Toadsmoor brook at the western boundary of the parish. They were … of Nether Lypiatt in 1689. 60 The highest mill on the brook, recorded in 1824 near the large pond in Toadsmoor …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Frome, while most of the eastern is formed by the Holy brook, most of the western by the Toadsmoor brook, and most of the northern by a tributary of the Slad brook running down the valley formerly called Timbercombe in …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Greys, 26 the house which stood in the valley of the Holy brook below Througham Slad. By the early 1780s the manor had … Crown granted custody of Bidfield for 20 years to John of Wotton 57 but in 1373 a grant was made to Mary, wife of … 58 Nevertheless the grant of custody to John of Wotton was confirmed in 1377 59 and later in that year …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 10 and other small meadows lay in the west by Shill brook. 11 Hunts mead (17 a.), a private meadow in the south-east near Shill brook, was given to Osney abbey by the lord of Alvescot in … the building of weirs across the eastern branch of Shill brook, and in 1951 by the redirecting of the brook's western …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 12th centuries, 5 and in the 19th century followed Shill brook on part of the west, a probably ancient route called … Oxford Clay. Alluvial deposits mark the courses of Shill brook, which divides the parish from west to east, and the northern part of Black Bourton brook, which flows southwards from Shill brook towards the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Bourton Place by the 18th century, 24 stood near Shill brook at the west end of Mill Lane, presumably the site of … it stood some 200 m. west of the church near Shill brook, where rectilinear earthworks and possible house … the two manors were combined. 59 A 2-a. pond west of Shill brook, called the Swan pool in 1772 when it was attached to …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Over Darwen, Feniscowles, Great Harwood, Mellor, Mellor-Brook, Salesbury, Samlesbury, Tockholes, Walton, and Witton. …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… to the east and west respectively, being parted by Dean Brook, while Chaigley or Chaigeley occupies the north-east … St. Michael's Well, near a certain stream called the Stone Brook. The place may be Aughton near Ormskirk. V.C.H. Lancs, … a strip of land round Ellis's houses, and by it to Stony Brook, running west; then south and east to the …