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A History of the County of York North Riding
… south and east. The parish takes its name from the green hill at the south end, which slopes rapidly down from a … township of Greenhow contains a few scattered farms on the hill-sides and in Greenhow Bottom, and is a desolate and … region. One of the plantations on the slope of the hill bears the suggestive name of Midnight Wood. At the head …
A History of the County of Worcester
… moat in good preservation on the glebe at the foot of the hill, below the vicarage. Cookhill Priory, about 3 miles to … of the house, which is situated near the summit of the hill from which it takes its name. The line of the moats may … the moat is still filled with water. On the summit of the hill, to the east of the house, is an ancient camp, in a very …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… when the manor passed to his sister Isabel wife of Robert Hill. 67 Robert Hill was a judge of the Common Pleas, and after the death of … manor, of which he died seised in 1423. 68 His son John Hill died in 1434, 69 when a third of Westcourt passed in …
Magna Britannia
… distance, a tower having been built for that purpose on a hill to the east of the town. Kirk-Oswald is in the deanery …
A History of the County of Northampton
… and westward from the river, reaching 260 ft. at Crow Hill near the confines of Little Addington. The soil is clay, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the parliamentary inclosure in the names Sart and Wood Hill and Plain, given respectively to the only open field … in Islip Wood. In 1622 they were finally allotted Wood Hill and Plain as an extra cowpasture. 159 Part of West Field … and shared the responsibility of fencing Sart on the Wood Hill side before Ascension Day each year. The vills of …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… known as the Upper and the Lower Icknield Way. Beacon Hill (762 ft.) and Gallows Hill (615 ft.) are the chief summits in the north of the … the parish, c. 171220, a beacon once stood on the former hill, and the kettle and other materials belonging to it were …
Magna Britannia
… Keylinge and his lady by Lely. On the summit of a steep hill, in this parish, 697 feet above the level of the sea 2, … which commands a fine sea-view. On the summit of a losty hill, about a mile from this house, is a pyramid, erected by … 27. The barton-house of this estate is called Small-hill, and is the property of Charles Chichester, Esq., of …
Magna Britannia
… D., one of the canons of Exeter. The manor and barton of Hill belonged to the family of De la Hill, afterwards to the Haydons, who were of Hill when Sir William Pole made his collections. This estate …