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A History of the County of Worcester
… Bickerstaffe Coppice, Baywell 4 (xvii cent.); Great Hill, the Picked Piece, Proctor's Farm, and Halifax's Farm 5; the Pike, Hunger Bean, Hangings, Mazey Ground, Tipsey Hill, Sparkwell and Slinket 6 (xviii cent.). MANOR The …
A History of the County of Bedford
… There are two windmills in this parish: one, standing on a hill north of the village, is still worked; the second, on …
A History of the County of Oxford
… on the Lower Lias clay. 8 The local rhyme, 'Aynho on the Hill / Clifton in the Clay / Dirty, drunken, Deddington / And … considerable prehistoric settlement, of which the Iron Age hill fort at Ilbury, now partially ploughed out, is the most … 129 presumably took its name from the nearby prehistoric hill fort, which was constructed on an outcrop of ironstone. …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… by Haw Bridge; its south boundary follows the Coombe Hill Canal, and was undefined before the canal was built in … small ridge alongside the river rising to 100 ft. at Grey Hill in the south-west and at the north boundary. 9 The land … lay in the south beside the river and where the Coombe Hill Canal was made. 13 A prominent feature was the number of …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… chalk hills, the turnpike road from Maidstone, over the hill here, to Key-street and Sittingborne, leading through … Polley fields. The soil of this parish, upon and below the hill, consists in general of chalk, and is very poor and … west part of it there is much coppice wood; above the hill it is equally poor, con sisting of a cold red unfertile …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… brick filling and tiled roofs. Among them may be mentioned Hill House, a late 17thcentury brick building with a … holding a sprig of foliage. The pulpit bears the arms of Hill, which are also carved on two of the seatends. The … of the chapel are twenty-four shields, principally of Hill and their alliances; some 17th-century heraldic glass …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… at the south end Denton-court and the church; hence the hill rises to the hamlet of Selsted, part only of which is in …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… to supply the place of the old victualling-office on Tower-hill, the lease whereof was then almost expired. Besides the … through Upper Deptford and the southern one over Loampit-hill, towards Lewisham; and here it must be observed that the … 4 Over this bridge the high road leads up Deptford-hill to Blackheath in its way to Dover, at the land's end, on …
A History of the County of Hertford
… the Malmes, Dockclose, the Scrubbs, Cowmead, Henley hill, Conduck hill, Tylekill field, Piggott hill, Estoll hill, and Hatches wood. 2 MANOR Before the …