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A History of the County of Oxford
… to flooding. Several springs rise on the edge of this hill and run into the Cherwell; noted for their fossilizing … of the parish. It straggles up the slopes of the steep hill above the banks of the Cherwell: the main village street … The church has a commanding position half-way up the hill. 13 It is possible that the medieval village lay to the …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… there are the Wilderness, Earley Whiteknights, Fox Hill, all erected from designs by Mr. Alfred Waterhouse, …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… two farms and the remains of a chapel. On Whitefield Hill, still further north, is a windmill used for pumping. …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Wells of Slade End in Brightwell (q.v.). The Sotwell Hill portion of the estate passed to his son Mr. Alfred Dodd …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… There are here a few 17th-century houses, among them Hill Farm, a half-timbered building, now plastered in front, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… at the east end by the town well runs north and down the hill past the site of the one-time manorhouse (see below) and … formerly called Souldern House, stands on the brow of the hill at the western end of the village street. It is built of … in 1613. Five are recorded in 1774, and Chisnell Farm, Hill House Farm, and three others are marked on a map of …
A History of the County of Bedford
… and rectory of All Saints are situated on the brow of a hill on the west of Forty Foot Lane as it approaches the …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Earl of Salisbury in 1642 to Sir William Litton and Roger Hill for three lives. 99 From this date it was merged in the … successor William in 1642 to Sir William Litton and Roger Hill for three lives, 107 and from that time was merged in … tree (ellenebem): then to prestesyate up to Holebroke Hill and so to Sladishevede and then to the ash at …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… parish extends southward from a height of 200 ft. on Down Hill above Long Wittenham, and is bounded on the south by the … the north side of the village in a cutting through a chalk hill of 228 ft., the summit of which is called 'the Brain.' …