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A History of the County of Huntingdon
… width for the security of travellers, as far as a road there extended. 3 It would seem probable that the road referred to was the Ermine Street. The other road in the neighbourhood is the Bullock Road, which also for …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… station is in the adjoining parish of Droxford. The main road from West Meon to Droxford runs through the village from … church and vicarage. A little further on it divides, one road going westward to Bishop's Waltham, and the other … grounds stands opposite the church on the east side of the road, the stream forming the eastern boundary, while the …
A History of the County of Warwick
… Wood) and so to Corley Moor, where they follow the road to Little Packington. The 40 acres of the Moor in this parish were inclosed in 1847 2 and the road has been straightened, diverging slightly from the … and so by Heynelane (now a field footpath) to the Coventry road where the said gallows stood. The village stands high, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… of the parish. A new assart called Barente, on the road leading through Oridge, was recorded c. 1300. 11 In … some arranged in crescents facing each other across a main road, others grouped less formally away from the road. The settlement was not a success, 46 and the tenants …
A History of the County of Worcester
… held on the three Sundays following Midsummer. The chief road is a branch from the main road between Birmingham and Bromsgrove, which enters the … passes south through Kendal End to Alvechurch. From this road there are two branches, Groveley Lane, which cuts …
A History of the County of Worcester
… little distance to the south of the Worcester and Bromyard road, and is surrounded on the east, west, and south by the … of the village. A stream which rises near the Worcester road flows southward through the parish and falls into the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… of 1803. 2 Coton is mostly bounded to the north by the road from Cambridge to St. Neots, but includes one field beyond it, in the angle with the Madingley road. Coton's eastern and western boundaries follow the edges … The stump of a village cross stands on the Grantchester road by the lane leading to Manor Farm. That farm does not …
A History of the County of Hertford
… as high as 493 ft. above the ordnance datum. The Roman road known as Stane Street passed through Hare Street, a … boundary of Cottered. There is a record of this road in Cottered in 1346, when the 'King's Highway called … and 6 miles east of the market town of Baldock. The main road which connects these two towns passes through Cottered. …
A History of the County of Rutland
… on high land 4 miles from Oakham, along both sides of the road from Oakham to Stretton, where it joins the Ermine … thatched roofs. The church is on the north side of the road in about the middle of the village. Cottesmore Hall, which stood at the east end on the north side of the road, was sold by the late Earl of Gainsborough to his cousin …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Heath in the south. 5 Apart from the Oxford-Brackley road which partly bounds it on the north-west the parish has … the village of Cottisford with the Buckingham-Deddington road to the north, the Bicester-Buckingham road to the south-east, and the Oxford-Brackley road to the …