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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… with Charlton was changed slightly c. 1882. 9 The grassy hill which gave Garsdon its name 10 is a north-west and … cottages near the western edge of Upper common in 1720; Hill Farm and Greenhill Farm stand there, each with a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… north from Garsington village to City Farm and round to Hill Farm, once South End Farm, at the south end and just … and so got its Old English name of Grse dnthe grassy hill. 8 It is built on different levels, varying between … late as the 19th century in the western escarpment of the hill north of the village. 9 Its fine trees owe their …
A History of the County of Warwick
… skirting the eastern flank of a slight eminence, Thorn Hill, 449 ft. above Ordnance Datum and the highest point in …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… 12th century; this stronghold may have stood on 'Castle Hill.' 5 A quarter of a mile beyond the parish boundary is … through North Cowton to Yarm, and is joined at Atley Hill by the road from Catterick Bridge to Yarm. Eryholme, … Cal. Pat. 13017, p. 348. The name is perpetuated in Atley Hill. Kirkby's Inq. (Surt. Soc.), 165. Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… overseers. Statistics from Bd. of Agric. (1905). The hill on which the castle stands is called Moat Hill, a name used in 1717 ( Quart. Sess. Rec. [N. R. Rec. …
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 …