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A History of the County of Worcester
… Red Sandstone, interstratified with cornstone at Pippin's Hill in the north. The chief crops are wheat, barley and …
A History of the County of Stafford
… is very low lying but rises in the north-east at Acton Hill to 375 ft. and in the south-east to 600 ft. The … a toll-gate and toll-house, 600 yds. northeast of Acton Hill. 4 Of the two villages Acton is situated 2 miles …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 400 ft. contours and the landscape is one of undulating hill and river valley. Generations of landowners and tenants … of a sinuous branch road which runs westwards down the hill to the Sor Brook. The splendid medieval church, the two … his Scottish agent. 104 Adderbury West straggles up the hill from the Sor Brook to the main BloxhamDeddington road. …
A History of the County of Surrey
… church there seem to be traces of earthworks, and Castle Hill preserves the name of the castle which Robert Aguillon … The site of the castle lies half a mile east of Castle Hill Farm and occupies a spur of rising ground 400 ft. above … that a manor-house was built in 1400 at the foot of the hill, which was demolished in 1780. It is said to have borne …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… of Addington place, pleasantly situated on the side of the hill, having a lawn and avenue down to the road, from which … A. M. presented July 1741, obt. 1768. 11 Daniel Hill, A. M. 1768, the present rector. 12 See Mr. Colebrooke's …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… which the road leads, in the middle of it; near it, on a hill, stand the church and courtlodge. There are two hamlets … grace and gaiety. It is an uneven surface, of frequent hill and dale; but the valleys, though noble and wild, are …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… in the south-west to over 750 ft. at the top of Adlestrop Hill in the north-east. Two ridges, the more northerly known … as Horn Down, 5 project towards the river from Adlestrop Hill so that the centre of the parish forms a valley through … and Harcomb Wood, 8 and on the middle slopes of Adlestrop Hill are Comb Wood and three plantations made apparently in …
Magna Britannia
… the house to decaye; and Penwarne, the house of Mr. Otwell Hill, was builded with Polruddon stones. The howse (as by the … are now the property of Charles Rashleigh, Esq. Under the hill, upon the same estate, is the chapel-well, over which is …
A History of the County of Surrey
… village is in the valley upon the sand south of the chalk hill, but close to it, and the parish extends across the sand … of the high ridge of Greensand, of which Leith Hill, Holmbury, and Ewhurst Hills are part, further eastward, … The views here across the Weald, and westward to Hascombe Hill and Hindhead beyond, are very beautiful. Below the …