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A History of the County of Warwick
… brick front. Behind the village to the east rises the hill, locally known as 'The Mount', crowned with the … east of the Mount an old trackway runs northwards to Camp Hill, forming the north-western boundary of the parish for … produced a minor poet in Richard Jago, the author of Edge Hill (1767) and a member of the local coterie that included …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… 6 miles east of Tewkesbury, on the southside of Bredon Hill. 1 Becca's ford, from which the parish takes its name, 2 … in the north reached the 625 ft. contour on Bredon Hill, Bengrove in the south-west reached the 600 ft. contour on Oxenton Hill, and Didcot in the south-east lay on the lower slopes of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… At the back of the public house is the traditional hill-top site of the capital messuage of the honor of St. … on the site of the modern Lower Park Farm, and not on the hill-top site. The choice and continued use of the low-lying … passion for the chase. Most probably the house on the hill decayed while the use of the hunting lodge grew, as …
A History of the County of Surrey
… Some artesian wells are found in the neighbourhood. Bandon Hill, marking the site of the manor of Bandon, is about half … 1848 and the boys' and infants' school in 1906. At Russell Hill, overlooking Smitham Bottom, is the Warehousemen and … ALL ANGELS, South Beddington (formerly known as Windmill Hill), was begun in 1906 and is still unfinished. A parish …
A History of the County of Warwick
… and Wolvey in Warwickshire, and Harthill, Higham on the Hill, Ratcliffe, Sibson, Stapleton, Stoke Golding, Sutton …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… centuries the parish included open fields known as Gold hill and Drove furlong, and common meadows called North mead, … mead, and Scotchfall. 73 The open fields, named as Gold hill, Drove furlong, North, and Middle fields in 1793, then … mead, and Scotchfall, while arable lay chiefly in Gold hill and Hatfield. 101 By the early 18th century, c. 16 a., …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… It stands among a beautiful scenery of park grounds, of hill and dale, well cloathed with trees and adjoining … built for his residence a mansion on these grounds, on the hill, at a small distance from the scite of the antient …
A History of the County of Worcester
… of Belbroughton, 7 Bell Heath to Brian's Bell, and Hollis Hill, Gosty Green and the Sling to Morehall Bell. The commons … Joan sold it in 1539 to Humphrey Pakington and Rowland Hill, 93 who transferred it in 1540 to John Pakington. 94 It … Coll. [Soc. of Antiq.]). Inst. Bks. (P.R.O.). John Hill, who presented in 1701, held the advowson under a …
A History of the County of Rutland
… pasture land. The village stands on the side of a steep hill about half a mile north of the main road from Leicester … and his grandson, 61 Alan George Finch of Burley-on-the-Hill, is the present lord of the manor. Haselwood. Argent a …