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A History of the County of Worcester
… 3 (xvi cent.); Withybed Field, Saltmear Field, Lickram Hill Field, the Hades, Allcot Side 4 (xix cent.). MANOR Five …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… but, apart from where it follows the contours round Beacon Hill, no prominent feature marks Fonthill Gifford's southern … by sharp relief. In that corner the circular Beacon Hill, 237 m., is the highest point in the parish and much of … flows south-eastwards to the Nadder. North of that Hinkley Hill, over 213 m., is the site of Fonthill Abbey. Chalk …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Parishes Forest Hill FOREST HILL The modern civil parish of Forest Hill with Shotover (2,127a.) 1 was formed in 1881 when the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… ground well above the flood-plain of the Severn, from Hill End on the south to Sezincote on the east. Near the … gable-end of the solar range have carved barge-boards. Hill Farm, the largest of the group of five timber-framed … cottages, as in 1752, 41 comprise the settlement of Cork's Hill; none of them is older than the 18th century, and their …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… a. of land south-west of the village on Fawden or Farthing Hill as a landing station for aeroplanes, taking over another … of established markets at Cambridge, Royston, and Saffron Walden soon forced it to cease. 178 Fowlmere has long …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… of the village it rises a little to over 30 metres at West Hill and Chalk Hill, where the village clunch pit has … fallow. 241 From the early 16th century to the late 18th saffron was also grown, usually in small blocks of a few … besides his shop and looms 2 a. of freehold and land under saffron. 297 In the late 18th century consolidation of …
A History of the County of Worcester
… of the great landmarks. The ridge from thence to Frankley Hill commands fine views, extending from the Cotswolds, Edge Hill, and the Leicestershire Hills by Barr Beacon and Dudley … and marl. A bed of running sand is found on Frankley Lower Hill Farm, near the railway, where it has caused landslips. A …
A History of the County of Warwick
… ft. above sea-level. The village stands on a well-marked hill of about 360 ft. in the centre of the parish and is very …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… and of paying suit at the time of the fairs held on the hill of St. Giles', Winchester, at the Bishop's court held in …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… half as much in breath, the surface of it is a continued hill and dale, though it is in general high ground, the soil … whence the ground rises pretty high to the summit of the hill on which the church stands, on the opposite side of the … along the shore opposite to Chatham-dock, where, on the hill is a house called the Quarry-house, having a beautiful …