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A History of the County of Bedford
… having its walls covered with plaster. Situated on a hill and approached from the main road through a cornfield is … beginning of the 16th century, when it was held by John Hill. 39 His son John left it by will in 1546 to his wife … family for the next hundred years, and in 1634 Richard Hill, sen., quitclaimed his right in it to Richard Hill, jun. …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Axe in the moors between Wookey and Wedmore, and Barrow Hill in the north-east of the parish (39 m. (129 ft.)) are … Mudgley fault throws up an outcrop of blue lias at Barrow Hill. There are small Burtle beds in the west of the parish. … farm measuring 100 a. in 1652, 173 which was let for a rack rent of 133 a year in the 1690s. 174 Holdings appear to …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… in the south of the parish at the foot of a wooded hill and contains several buildings of the 17th century, … of brick-work, 3 but it is now overgrown with ivy. On a hill to the northeast of Medmenham Church is the supposed … or manor-house of the Bolebecs. 4 There is a path down the hill to the spring below, and the locality is known as the …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… of undulating country rising against the horizon, Juniper Hill, Bogmoor Hill, Abbotstone Wood, and Abbotstone Down. The lane leading …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… more steeply to over 100 metres at Hyde or Summerhouse Hill, on the heath east of Royston. Springs at Melbourn Bury … it was held by the Hoys, who in 1977 farmed it with Hyde Hill and New farms. 271 By 1921 Summer House Farm had been … mill, presumably Baddesmill, and one windmill. Windmill Hill was mentioned in 1419. 294 There was a windmill in the …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Dearsall(Dersall), Mooreclose, Chilford, Dunwoode, Deane Hill, Burchwood, Duxmore, Colemore, Ash Deanes Cross, Shadowe …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… unaltered at inclosure. The Kneesworth road climbs Mettle Hill, originally Motlowehyll, so called in the 14th century, … which descended with his estate in Kneesworth to Biscoe Hill Wortham (d. 1895). It included c. 170 a. in Meldreth in … manor. The lease descended with that manor to Biscoe Hill Wortham 174 who held it in 1873. 175 In 1920 the college …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… land a little above the general level of the valley. Shaw Hill is 165 ft. and at a point mile north of Whitley the land … ground of which the parish of Seend is composed. This hill rises to more than 200 ft. in the centre of the parish … a mile west of the village and almost at the foot of the hill is Seend Cleeve and mile farther Seend Row. The hamlet …
Magna Britannia
… Denton, writing in 1688, says that the gallows stood on a hill near the castle, on which criminals had been executed …