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A History of the County of Rutland
… the east, reaching the highest point, 500 ft., at Prestley Hill on the western border. The Barrows, just south-west of …
A History of the County of Somerset
… park bank in Park Lane and the southern part of Boxstone Hill. The northern boundary with Shepton Beauchamp and South … parish is dominated by the limestone ridge of Easterdown hill which rises to 249 ft. A quarry and limekiln stood just south of the village on the north side of the hill. 5 North and south of the hill bands of Yeovil Sands …
A History of the County of Durham
… near the centre of the parish. It stands on a low gravel hill, and is built round a large square in which there stood … its way to Bradbury first Sedgefield station on the Ferry Hill, Stockton and Middlesbrough branch of the North Eastern … called Bradbury Carrs. The road to Chilton and Ferry Hill crosses the stream at Bradbury Bridge. There has been a …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… and in Street Lane pairs of 19th-century cottages survive. Hill Cottages, built south of the church in the later 19th … The house was called the Rectory until 1908. 200 Hill Cottages, nearer the church, were then made into a …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… mile from the lees stands the church, upon the knoll of a hill, with the vicarage close to it, and a little farther on …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… the soil inclining about the church to gravel, and the hill and dale very gentle. The branch of the turnpike road … southern part of the parish is a very high and conspicuous hill, called Shottenton hill, commanding on all sides of it as extensive a prospect …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… outcrop as the high land in the south where, on Hatts Hill and Little Hill, heights over 240 m. are reached, and tributary streams … south, hamlets called Gutch Common and St. Bartholomew's Hill established themselves, perhaps in the 17th or 18th …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… northern peninsulated part of the parish, comprising White hill and, to the north, Bespidge hill, the land falls away steeply to the north-west. Near the summit of Bespidge hill, known as Grim's hill in the 10th century, 9 Roel Camp …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… was given to it from seven large oaks, standing on the hill where the town is, at the time of its being first built. … at and about the town, it is a sand, as it is towards the hill southward, below which it is a stiff clay, and towards … a rich sertile soil. It reaches more than a mile below the hill, where there is a hamlet, called Sevenoke Weald, lying …
A History of the County of Worcester
… village of Severn Stoke lies at the foot of a fairly steep hill, about midway between Worcester and Tewkesbury, on the … II, m. 24; Trin. 16 Geo. II, m. 210. Inform. from Mr. John Hill. Rentals and Surv. (Gen. Ser.), portf. 16, no. 78. …