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A History of the County of Sussex
… almost isolating a 700-ft.-high hilltop known as the Dyke Hill, which is surmounted by an Early Iron Age fortified town … and a hotel built within the ramparts of the ancient hill-town. The village of Poynings lies at the mouth of the … 45 which is mentioned in Domesday Book, stands on the hill-side at the mouth of the Devil's Dyke coombe. The …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… boundary, which skirts the earthworks of Nottingham Hill and was defined in an 8th-century charter, 5 remained … occupied since the 16th century; the exception is Prescott Hill Farm, below the earthworks of Nottingham Hill, at 700 ft., where there may have been no building …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 1 km., and the north-western by the Ridge Way on Hackpen Hill for 750 m.; elsewhere the boundaries pursued arbitrary … Downs. 16 From the extreme northern boundary on Hackpen Hill at 269 m. the land inclines south-eastwards to the … Kennet, south of which it rises to above 183 m. on Granham Hill. The figure of a horse was cut on Granham Hill in 1804 …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… 200 ft. On the west side the land rises slightly at Marle Hill and the east side rises steeply to 600 ft. A small … have existed before the inclosure of 1732. Lower and Upper Hill Farms, near the crest of the escarpment, were built in … had closed by 1846. 69 In 1904 a spring on Marle Hill was found to have highly saline medicinal water, and a …
A History of the County of Rutland
… was erected in 1880. There are wall memorials to John Hill, rector (d. 1690), who by his will gave 'one silver …
A History of the County of Sussex
… along the boundary of the latter to the summit of the Race Hill. The original area was about 1,300 acres, now divided … Wellesbourne valley and climbed the slopes of Hollingbury Hill to about the 300 ft. contour. Originally comprising … Where the old way, known as the Drove Road, over Newmarket Hill from Lewes crossed the Wellesbourne on its way towards …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… marshes towards the river. Just below the court-lodge the hill descends to the marshes, near two hundred acres of which …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… the rest of it near the marshes, northward of Davington-hill, which parish entirely separates this part from the rest … Borough, eldest daughter of Robert Denne, gent. of Denne-hill, obt. 1609. In the chapel, on the south side of the …
A History of the County of Warwick
… as 1822, 1 but the southward extension, forming Preston Hill Farm, 2 belonged to the lords of the manor of Wootton … 300 ft. above Ordnance datum, the highest point being the hill on which the church stands, which commands an extensive … into two lanes which run on either side of the church hill to Lowsonford and are connected, within the parish, by a …