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A History of the County of Gloucester
… for most of its length followed the Tewkesbury-Ledbury road, and at the western end the Longdon brook; the southern … where there was a girls' boarding school in 1856. 29 The road running south-west from the village cross-roads has … were more houses in 1883, 56 and on the south side of the road further west small inclosures are suggestive of former …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… for a mile through undulating meadows and strikes the main road near Foston Hall, which was built on the site of an old … with a few cottages stands on the opposite side of the road, and a mile beyond is the small schoolhouse. A gate … of no great antiquity, straggling up the hilly turnpike road on which stand the Friends' meeting-house and post …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… into Fowlmere parish the boundary moved to the Chrishall road. The south-eastern extremity was probably inclosed at an … taking over another 220 a. to the south, near the London road, in 1917. By 1918 there were 700 R.A.F. staff there but … is crossed by what was once the main London-Kings Lynn road, already in use in 1260. 15 It was turnpiked in 1725 and …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… partly by the same tributary and partly by an ancient road, the south-western partly by another tributary and another ancient road, and the whole of the north-western by the Roman Foss … Grey 13 and was later made up. The Norton to Easton Grey road, part of the south-western boundary of Foxley parish, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 3 and Shepreth brooks, and on the south-east by an ancient road running north-east from Fowlmere, called by 1315 the … and thatched, such as Michaelhouse, or two on Station Road. 32 In 1788 several dwellings at the east end of the … off it, half of them on Stocker's Lane, later Station Road. It ran north from the middle of the street towards the …
A History of the County of Worcester
… to west and then turns south towards Bromsgrove, and a road from Rubery station, which runs northward through the … a quarry at Holly Hill has been used for many years for road-making in the parish. The best of it has been taken by … years ago. 5 Among the place-names are Grandynneslone Road, 6 Whickeweye, 7 Bynghameslond, Berghenlond, Slowlond, …
A History of the County of Warwick
… centre of the parish and is very secluded, with no main road through or near it. There are a few timber-framed …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… north of the station and has now extended west along the road to Totland, passing the hamlet of School Green, where … schools are situated. The Council school in Queen's Road was built in 1906. Totland is a civil parish comprising …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… railway or canal passes through the parish, and the only road of importance is that from Hampstead Norris to …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… object. At the north end of the street of Frindsbury the road branches off on the left hand to Cliff and Higham, and … next to Cliff, the manor of slingham. The high London road runs along the southern part of this parish for near a … it Little Hermitage; a quarter of a mile southward of the road, but nearer to Stroud, is Read-court, beyond which this …