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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Middlesex
… Ancient and historical monuments in Middlesex Drayton, West 9 … W. border of the county 3 m. S. of Uxbridge. The church and the gatehouse of the former Manor House are the principal … have curved braces and short posts supporting the ridge; the wall-posts stand on stone corbels carved with …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… where the Cambridge to Huntingdon road is the boundary, and highest, about 230 ft., at the S. end which stops against … modern. (14) Cultivation remains (not on O.S.). Much ridge and furrow is preserved in the small closes around the village, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… bounded on the north by the CambridgeHuntingdon road and on the south by that from Cambridge to St. Neots, which were turnpikes respectively between 1745 and 1874 56 and between 1772 and 1876. 57In 1966 c. 350 a. in … carved out valleys for themselves each side of a central ridge, on which the village stands. The brook running …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… the river Leven, near its influx into the Frith of Forth, and is neatly and regularly built, consisting of one principal street … is diversified by the elevated site of the town, and by a ridge of hills near the southern extremity, of no great …
A History of the County of Oxford
… field in the north, Park field between the village and Barley Park, Middle field parallel to it on the … O.R.O., incl. award. Cf. map on p. 129 and, for observed ridge and furrow, M. Aston and T. Rowley, Landscape Arch. 135. Cal. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… bank of the river Windrush immediately south of Witney and 5 miles north-east of Bampton. 71 It was a predominantly … river valleys the land is low-lying ( c. 75 m.) but a ridge of higher ground extends from Coursehill Farm in the … north-west of Home Farm, which lacks the ridge and furrow covering most of Pitchless hill. 59 Claywell was a …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… The village stands on a low terrace above the Welland, and the main street, with a back lane to the E., runs … larger, extending S. as far as the Manor House (28) and W. to the church. In the 18th century a broad path led W. … of the 18th century (Fig. 7). (7) Two storeys, crested ridge tiles, 17th-century origin, two tenements in 19th …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… 520 hectares, lies on land rising steeply between 100 ft. and 300 ft. above OD from the R. Welland which forms its W. … shown as containing a number of enclosed strips. Ridgeand-furrow within these common fields can be traced on air … interlocked and end-on furlongs usually C-curved. Similar ridge-and-furrow which lay within old enclosures in 1775 can …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… many generations in moieties between the families of Bruen and Done; the first passed, with Bruen-Stapleford, to Mr. Wilbraham, and the other with the Utkinton estate to Mr. Arden. Duddon … its mines of coal and ironstone, lying on each side of a ridge of basaltic rock and limestone. Between the different …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Dunbar - Dundee Dunbar DUNBAR, a burgh, market-town, and parish, in the county of Haddington; containing, with the villages of East and West Barns, 4471 inhabitants, of whom 3013 are in the … the estate of Dunbarny, which is marked by a fissure in a ridge of hills. The church formerly stood a mile westward of …