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The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… London road crosses the centre of it eastward from Chatham hill, southward of which it is a hilly dreary country, much … beyond which the ground ascends to the summit of the chalk hill, on which is the town of Brompton, having a most …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… de Mauley), 23 by this beck to Postegate (now Post Gate Hill), through the Lawn 24 of Postgate as the moorland road … The church of ST. THOMAS stands on the slope of the hill-side, the ground falling from west to east, and is a …
Magna Britannia
… and passed by successive sales to the families of Horton, Hill, and Smythe; the last-mentioned alienation took place in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… m. Except for bands of Chipping Norton limestone, Sharps Hill beds, and alluvium along the Glyme and its tributaries, … of the parish, and the fields of the Roman villa at Callow Hill, just across the parish boundary in Stonesfield, … from Glympton. 32 In 1653 there was a house on 'Boriams Hill . . . against Boriams', 33 but it may have been a new …
A History of the County of Surrey
… lies in the valley, but its outskirts extend on to the hill to the south, called Holloway Hill, and to the north near Hurtmore, where the Charterhouse … over the waste land hence to the common fields on Holloway Hill and near Busbridge, south of the town. The tenants by …
A History of the County of Oxford
… is derived from Gdan dn or perhaps Gdinga dn, 'the hill of Goda' or of 'Goda's people'. 98 In the Domesday …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… 3 The name may be retained at the present day in 'Bogmoor Hill' in Godsfield. This wood also extended into the adjacent …