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The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… in general a stiff clay and heavy tillage land, but on the hill inclined to gravel; one half of it is marsh land, which … Hoo street the ground rises from the marshes to the high hill. The inclosures are small and the hedge rows thick, with …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… stands nearly in the middle of it, on the knoll of a small hill. There is a small circuit of land round it, containing …
A History of the County of Oxford
… at Hornton village and along the boundary streams. At Bush Hill in the north of the parish there is rough land ( c. 23 … lies near the eastern boundary of the parish crowning a hill 500 ft. high, some 3 miles from Edgehill. The village … One long street of cottages and farmhouses ascends the hill from Horley Mill to the church on the hill-top, still …
A History of the County of Surrey
… of Chobham died seised of the manor or tenement called HILL PLACE, which was held of the king as of his manor of … it is not generally called a manor. 17 The Collyers of Hill Place were among the lay impropriators of the tithes … about 1682 and in 1804. In 1841 the Collyer family sold Hill Place to Mr. G. Marshall of Godalming. In 1851 he …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… Lamberhurst last described. being a surface of continued hill and dale. It is bounded towards the north-east and south … Baynden, late belonging to Sir Charles Booth, of Stede-hill, deceased. A fair is held here on St. Swithin's day, now …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… fell, married Sir John Denham, 53 the author of Cooper's Hill, who had by her '500 per annum, one son, and two …
A History of the County of Oxford
… village, with its church lying below the shelter of the hill, is undoubtedly Lower or Church Horspath, but the site … Horspath is uncertain. It may have been higher up the hill towards Shotover, but a more likely site seems to be by … and may be compared with the positions of the neighbouring hill villages of Cuddesdon and Garsington. Surviving …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… terrier of 1760), 15 Ford's Close, the Leaze, Ray Hill, and Shollen. 16 Welly (to which reference has been made …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… end of the village is Kirkby-house; and on the rise of the hill above it Reynold's-place, now principally occupied as a …