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A History of the County of Hertford
… Rowland Alston, bart., in conveying the manor to Joseph Hill, 43 probably in trust for George Earl Cowper, whom …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… and in others, Evere. This parish lies below the sand hill, and is consequently in that district of this county … Henry VIII. with his attendants, came to the top of the hill, within sight of the castle, he used to wind his bugle …
A History of the County of Hertford
… by the men and women of the place on the slope of Waytyng Hill, the women attempting to pull the pole down the hill in defiance of the men. The game would last some two or …
A History of the County of Oxford
… branch of that road, running to Hook Norton and on to Edge Hill (Warws.) entered Heythrop in the north-west, crossing …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… relation was given me: At a place near, called Castle-hill, partly upon the main Fosse-Road, opposite to the … the Vernometum of Antonine. Between Willoughby and Sedge's-Hill is a considerable curve in the road; but doubtless … in breadth 200 yards, and here not 100 over. Near Seg's-Hill, it is the broadest considerably between Newark and High …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… Wycombe Marsh dating from the Bronze Age. 1 There are two hill-top camps in the parish, one at Keep Hill and the other … with small houses, of which an occasional name, such as Saffron Road (reminiscent of the 17th-century Saffron Plat), recalls the fact that they mark the site of …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… is the estate of Mockbeggar, and on the submit of the hill southward, The mansion of Hermitage, below which, in the … and thence across the London high road on Gads-hill to Shorne ridgeway, about half a mile beyond which it … northward from the London road to Dover. It stands on a hill, and commands a most extensive prospect both of the …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… of a large undulating park with the thickly-wooded Sidown Hill which reaches a height of 887 ft. above the ordnance … south, contrasting strangely with the bare sides of Becon Hill, in the neighbouring parish of Burghclere. In the centre …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… wife 40 a. of barley and only 1 a. each of wheat and rye. Saffron was also grown at Hildersham from the early 16th … usually employed curates, including in 1877 the master of Saffron Walden grammar school. Robert then claimed that … 155; Trans. C.H.A.S. iv. 64. Palmer, Wm. Cole, 96. A. G. Hill, Churches of Cambs. (1880), 195; cf. Trans. C.H.A.S. iv. …