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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… 880 hectares, lies between the R. Nene and Cranford Brook, on land rising S.W. from 100 ft. to 280 ft. above OD. … N.W. of the village, above the valley of Cranford Brook, on Cornbrash at 210 ft. above OD. Air photographs …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Elizabeth, during the reign of Mary. The village, called Brook-street from a stream which flows through the parish, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Nassington, covers some 420 hectares lying across Willow Brook, between 80 ft. and 210 ft. above OD. Most of it is on … limestones and sands which outcrop along the valley of the brook. Prehistoric and Roman For crop-marks in the parish, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… of Rockingham. The village lies on the N. side of Willow Brook and consists of a single street with a back lane on the … party wall between the cottages is dog-legged. (21) Willow Brook Farm, formerly the Hare and Hounds Inn, two storeys, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 'Castle Wall', 32 and a street, possibly the later Upper Brook Hill, leading to the same feature was mentioned c. … Lane and Union Street in the later 18th century, and in Brook Hill from the early 19th; Union Street began as the … they were lighted by gas from a gasworks built on Brook Hill in 1853. 30 In the later 19th century a few houses …
A History of the County of Oxford
… employer in 1851 with 43 men and 600 women, lived in Brook Hill on the later gas works site, but seems also to … Oxford Street from the 1950s, moving to a new factory in Brook Hill c. 1972. 97 Hensington works, the former Pullman's … no. 35. Cf. P.R.O., HO 107/1730; Boro. Mun. 143, s.v. Brook Hill encroachments; below, Old Woodstock, Econ. Boro. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 16 As late as 1750 a triangle of land at the junction of Brook Hill and Upper Brook Hill remained in Hensington, 17 suggesting that the … have followed the edge of the valley on the line of Upper Brook Hill and Harrison's Lane. The original east boundary …
A History of the County of Oxford
… as the shambles stalls and cottages in Common Acre and Brook Hill; by 1828 the traditional reserved rents were only … 1750s, 24 on the later Union Street from the 1760s, and at Brook Hill in the early 19th century. 25 The house later the … and cleansed the river, the ditches, and the corporation brook; 52 the last, also called the back brook, was the …