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A History of the County of Somerset
… near the Castle of Comfort inn and beside the Old Bowling Green; there were more houses there than in the village by … where the murderer John Walford was hanged at Dodington Green in 1789. 20 There were 73 taxpayers in 1667. 21 The …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… canal, is the hamlet of Chatter Alley with Chatter Alley Green, and further down the hill there is another hamlet …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… respectively White Sheet Hill and the downs north of Win Green in Donhead St. Mary and Berwick St. John, chalk … National Trust by Mr. A. J. W. Stancomb as a path to Win Green. 13 The main London-Exeter road in 1675 entered the … 17 South-east of the church its course was continued by Green Lane, a track in 1985, as far as the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… by its broken relief. The chalk downs reach 277 m. at Win Green and 206 m. on the boundary with Cann. The deepest of … the dry valleys to cut them is Quarry Bottom south of Win Green. To the north the greensand has been cut by four head … of them was long used to feed sheep in common. 10 Win Green, which is partly in Donhead St. Mary, was bought by the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… is 1,160 yards long. The old bridge, which led into the green at Bridge End, was demolished in 1816, but the …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… a 'great oke tree,' over 200 years old, growing on Dorney Green in Dorney Manor, which was cut down by Woodford and his … honest men found Dorney to be a royal manor and that the green was therefore common, as waste grounds, to the tenants …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Sandywell park, were called in the late 16th century the green way and (from an estate of the Knights Templar) Temple … Several of its houses were grouped loosely around a green on the steep bank on the north side of the lane. In the … two small farmhouses at the lower, northern edge of the green were owned respectively by Corpus Christi college, …
A History of the County of Somerset
… through the manor grounds. Further south a triangular green 8 was formed at the junction of the main street with a …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… of it is an area of London Clay around Warminster Green (now called Lover) and Bohemia, which runs northeast to … west to the Avon and east to Redlynch and Warminster Green. At North Charford the ridge turns to the south-east … the clay was cleared at Hamptworth and around Warminster Green in the early Middle Ages, but woodland remains near …