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A History of the County of Huntingdon
… Bugden (until late xviii cent.). Buckden lies on the road from Huntingdon (4 m. north-east) to St. Neots (south-east), i.e., the London or Great North Road, which for some distance forms its northern boundary, and from which a road branches here to Peterborough. It is bounded on the east …
A History of the County of Surrey
… The parish is purely rural. Buckland is traversed by the road from Dorking to Reigate and by the Redhill and Reading …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… The village is situated a little to the north of the main road from Faringdon to Abingdon on high ground, which slopes …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… buildings which it surrounded have disappeared. The chief road crossing Buckland parish is Akeman Street, but the village lies along a branch road, joining the main road at Buckland Wharf. Another road branches from Akeman …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… to the lands-end at Dover, to which the high London road leads through it. On each side here the hills rise … is built mostly on the northern side of the London road, extending within less than half a mile to Dover. It is …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… somewhat less than a mile northward of the great London road, at the 44th mile stone. THIS PLACE took its name from … known, though adjoining the north side of the high London road, at the 44th mile-stone. It lies in a flat low country, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… near Bucknell Lodge. 5 The main Banbury to Bicester road, an important highway since medieval times, runs along … (the Bucknell section was made a turnpike in 1791); 6 a road from Middleton Stoney to Bicester skirts the southern … and roads radiate from the village to Ardley, the Banbury road, Bicester itself, and Middleton. Farm tracks and …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… slope of the hill facing northeast and lies along the by-road from Alconbury Weston to Barham. The church is in the …
A History of the County of Warwick
… boundary, between Budbrooke and Claverdon, runs along the road from Gannaway Gate to Nunhold and then turns north-east, … in the parish, the greater part of which is pasture. The road, canal, and railway between Warwick and Birmingham cross … the northern part of the parish, near the church. Another road from Warwick enters the parish, about a mile south of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… roads crossed the parish in the later 17th century. The road from Chipping Campden (Glos.) via Marlborough to … Salisbury crossed the centre of the parish northsouth, the road from Oxford via Hungerford (Berks.) to Salisbury crossed the south-east tip, and the road from London via Andover (Hants), Amesbury, Shrewton, and …