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A History of the County of Bedford
… (xiixv cent.). Dunstable is a municipal borough on the old road from London to Chester and Holyhead, from the former of … through the parish. The Watling Street, the Roman military road, runs from north-east to south-west, and the possibly … Mr. Worthington Smith has found traces of another British road, the precursor, as he suggests, of the Roman Watling …
A History of the County of Bedford
… districts, the remainder is devoted to agriculture. The road from Edworth, which enters Dunton from the south, is … it reaches the parish boundary. Some distance off the road on the east lies Millowbury Farm, and a little further … At Millow Hall Farm, still on the same side of the road, a branch road leads down to Dunton Lodge in the …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… for the parish the nickname 'Dirty Durley.' The only road of any size or definite direction is Durley Street, … it dips sharply to meet the new Waltham to Winchester road at the foot of Wintershill. Along Durley Street, between … apart. At a short distance to the east of the school, a road turns southwards to a group of newer-looking houses and …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… is bounded by the Avon on the west and a long and straight road across downland on the east: an estate in the south part … of Great Durnford was used for an airfield. 8 The road on the parish's east boundary was the main road from Chipping Campden (Glos.) via Marlborough to …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… one east-west and one north-south. The BulfordShrewton road, called Packway by c. 1555, was from the 17th century or earlier to the 19th part of a LondonWarminster road via Marlborough; 13 between Bulford bridge and Lark Hill … in 1761, disturnpiked in 1871. The UpavonAmesbury road, called Netheravon Road across Durrington parish, was …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… it is bounded by the river, on the north-west by a modern road following the line of a branch of the Icknield Way; 4 on … itself stands where the river approaches nearest to the road running along its left bank. On the land between road and river there stood in the Middle Ages four …
A History of the County of Worcester
… Wheat, beans and barley are the chief crops. The main road from Pershore to Upton-on-Severn passes through the … to the south of the village of Earl's Croome, meeting the road from Tewkesbury to Worcester to the south-west of Earl's …
A History of the County of Northampton
… de Carnail was presented for having encroached on the high road in Barton, 29 and in 1285 he, with Seman de Stokes … on a prominent spur of land that commands the road running up to the village from the ford and mill in the …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… which started south of Easby and ran parallel to the Roman road as far as Barforth on Tees. 4 The southern boundary is … to the north form the infirmary, the church and a public road occupying the more usual position east of the cloister. …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… is very near the flourishing town of Loftus, on the road from Loftus by way of Boulby and Staithes to Hinderwell. This road forms the village street. By Easington Hall Farm, at the …