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A History of the County of Northampton
… trees which border the lane ascending from the Billing Road to the village, but the northern part, which lies much … spinnies. The north of the parish is crossed by the main road from Northampton to Kettering, while the Wellingborough road, off which lies the village, divides the upper and lower …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… from the neighbouring parish of Weston Corbett by the road leading to Upton Grey, and on the south-eastern side of this road lies the village, situated at an elevation of about 400 …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… Street, which runs from Aylesbury to Tring, and the main road from Aylesbury to Wendover, which follows the line of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and Mead Copse. Two main roads cross the parish: the main road from Oxford to Brackley, a busy highway from medieval times, and the road from Oxford to Bicester. The minor road to Bletchingdon was mentioned in 1766 when it was being …
A History of the County of Warwick
… red brick infilling, straggles along the Leamington-Rugby road for over half a mile; this road makes two right-angled bends at the east end of the village to align with a cross-country road whose continuity from the Northampton-Warwick road at …
A History of the County of Bedford
… of a group of small cottages on either side of the road from Toddington to Flitton. These are mostly modern, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… settlement linked to Malmesbury by a short stretch of road along a narrow ridge and, as its name implies, it lay … of the Avon west of Malmesbury, and short stretches of road in several places. For a short distance the boundary was … turnpiked in 1756. 14 Only a short stretch of the Sherston road, in the suburb of Westport, lay within the parish; it …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… called Westwell downs, which is uninclosed, and full of road tracks, over which the chalk soil of the hills …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… long by 200 m. broad east of Westwood bounded by Westwood Road to the south-west, Wid brook to the south-east, and … the chapelry in 1773 were still in use in 1978. 19 The road running westwards through Lower Westwood to Iford was turnpiked in 1752. 20 The short stretch of road linking it with the Bradford-Frome road was turnpiked …
A History of the County of Worcester
… from Hampton Lovett goes through the park. The main road from Ombersley to Droitwich passes along the southern boundary of the park. This road seems to have been made by Sir John Pakington before … 'a new great pool' there, but had made instead the present road, which is said to have been 'very narrow and very fowle …