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A History of the County of Gloucester
… boundary by streams flowing into Oxfordshire and by the road from Stow-on-the-Wold to Burford. 2 From the river, at … century. Most of the houses in the village lie along the road that runs up the hill through it, making a rightangle … house, a street with some more houses runs south from the road, and then turns uphill to join the main street near the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 14 The parish is traversed for almost its full length by a road running north-west from Whittlesford to Shelford Bridge. That road was turnpiked in 1729 and disturnpiked in 1871. There … up west of there, around the point where the Whittlesford road turns east to cross the river. It spread from a nucleus …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… and is rich in meadow land. The main SwindonMalmesbury road along the northern boundary, the road leading south from it as the Hill and the Street through Great Somerford towards Chippenham, and the road from Little Somerford village to Dauntsey were turnpiked …
A History of the County of Bedford
… this parish, but the village straggles for a mile along a road which enters from Colmworth in the south-east. It is … fine position in the north-east, approached from the road by a lane. In 1900 its spire, a conspicuous feature in …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… The village lies at the crossing of Ermine Street by the road to Abbots Ripton. The more important part of it, … on the north side of Ermine Street along the Abbots Ripton Road, where there are many picturesque timber framed, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of land reaching across the Chipping Norton to Banbury road and down to the river Swere at Coltscombe; the stream in … and natural contours, but in the south-east it follows the road from Little Tew to Enstone for a short way before turning east to join the road from Great Tew to Enstone. The boundary with Heythrop on …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… and along this north-west to the Thames. 3 The present road lead ing north from the west side of the village stops where it meets the road going westward to Long Wittenham, but is continued by a … has been traced from the backwater near the bridge to the road opposite the south-east angle of the church yard, and, …
A History of the County of Hertford
… and Hitchin, 2 miles north-west. The village lies on the road from Hitchin to Stevenage. Near its centre a road branches off northwards to Great Wymondley, passing the site of the former priory. The Great North Road runs along the north-east boundary of the parish. The …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… the plantation of vines. The village is built on the high road leading from Canterbury to Sandwich and Deal, at the … the archbishop, called Fishpool-downs, through which the road leads to Wickham. At the bottom of Fishpool hill is the … These woods continue from hence adjoining the high road towards the village in great quantities, much of which …