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The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… sold it to Baldwin Duppa Duppa, esq. of Hollingborne-hill. HUCKING, alias RUMPSTED, is a small manor in this …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… datum and reach their maximum height (644 ft.) at Denner Hill near the northern boundary separating this parish from … and altered in modern times. The manor-house stands on a hill in the south of the parish. It is a square building with … of his nephew Mr. Coningsby Ralph Disraeli. The path down-hill to the northeast of the manor-house leads past the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… by the scarp. Its land rises above 850 ft. on Huish Hill, sloping gently northwards to about 700 ft., and more … be used for tillage or pasture. The steep slopes of Huish Hill have prevented ploughing, but the more gently sloping … 3 and by the 19th century Gopher wood, 22 a. on Draycot Hill, was all that remained. 4 The boundaries of Huish were …
A History of the County of Somerset
… two parallel streams. The southern boundary lies on Heydon Hill ( c. 338 m.) above Huish moor, where rough common ground … the north-west the parish reaches the plateau of Brendon Hill (375 m.) and a ridge beyond at 396 m. The boundaries of the open ground on Brendon Hill are marked by the Bronze Age monolith known as Dun's …
A History of the County of Somerset
… and then follows the contour round the scarp of Aller hill. The eastern limit of the parish follows the mill brook, … good soil'. Further north, however, on Bowdens, and Aller hill above Combe and Wearne where the land rises to 300 ft., … in the Middle Ages, Court and Littleney fields and Huish Hill. 35 By 1755 they were known as Court, Inner, and Outer …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… were built in Greens Close in 1950, 4 council bungalows in Hill Hayes Lane in 1956 49 and 14 in Latimer c. 1976, 50 and … the only cottages away from the village were a few in Hill Hayes Lane where several of the 19th and 20th centuries … 1922 59 and a telephone exchange was built in 1939. 60 In Hill Hayes Lane a new village hall was built in 1971. 61 …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… in Eddington, at a spot known now and in 1677 as Barrow Hill; it has not been explored. It has been stated that …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… it, is within that district. The soil of it about the hill partakes of the quarry or rag stone, thinly covered with … earth, below which it changes to a stiff clay. Upon the hill adjoining to Cocks-heath there is a range of coppice wood along it, below which, midway down the hill is the seat of Burston, having a fine view southward …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… The Bath Road enters the parish at the hamlet of Knowl Hill on the south, 3 and turning east at Chalk Pit Farm … South of Hurley Bottom it rises steeply and at Ashley Hill reaches a height of 475 ft. The village is situated in … cent.; Birchestre, xv cent.), 5 part of Littlewick, Knowl Hill, Warren Row and Cockpole. Knowl Hill (La Cnolle, xiv …