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A History of the County of Somerset
… extend nearly 3 km. from the coast to the top of Weacombe Hill, and it is between 1.5 km. and 2 km. wide. From Beacon Hill (310 m.) in the south-east, on the sandstone shales of … second, wider combe, sheltered from the east by Stowborrow Hill, where the land slopes to the coast over marls, shales, …
A History of the County of Essex
… 30 m. in the east near Mill Wood and in the west at Beacon Hill. 4 The landscape is greatly distorted by extensive … for chalk, clay, sand, and gravel. Excavations at Beacon Hill revealed the site of palaeolithic, Iron Age, and … Coal Owners' Association. Between 1920 and 1940, Park, Hill Crest, and First to Fifth Avenues were built in West …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… tall chimney-piece of very good style. From the top of the hill wide views can be obtained of Privett and the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… street. 102 The former may have been within the moat at Hill Farm, mile east of the main village, between Leys wood … neighbour Bleachman field, it covered 376 a., and Pageant Hill field 261 north of the Balsham road had 96 a. South of … (formerly Chalkpit) field 265 to the west, and Stanebury Hill to the north (270 a. together). North of the village …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… rich valley of Wensleydale beneath. 22 The ground on the hill-side above the village, known as 'The Gill' in 1823, 23 … 33 Penhill, the 13th-century Penle, 34 'counted the hiest hill of Richemontshire' in the 16th century, when Leland …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… north to Bradenham. The main road skirts the foot of the hill, turning in a westerly direction into the straggling … and the church he has just built on the top of a hill, for the convenience and devotion of the town at the … into which the widely scattered manor was divided. 11 The hill which was chosen for the site of the church was not in …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… extends from the river Stour across the marshes up the hill northward, as far as the high road to Margate, and it … about the middle of the parish, at the foot of the hill, not far from the marshes, having the church just above … it is very healthy. The soil, from the village up the hill, which rises close behind it, is mostly a sand, and …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… high ground, sloping down steeply from 700 ft. at Westcote Hill in the southwest to the brook in the north at 400 ft. … and sheep-farming with extensive sheeppastures on Westcote Hill and the open fields, which partially survived in 1960, … had been originally on the stream at the foot of Westcote Hill, was also on the green, and was similarly used by other …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… where it bounds to Cowden, and southward, beyond the sand hill, into the Weald. In the whole it is about five miles and … its course north east, and in about half a mile, passes by Hill-park towards Brasted; northward from hence the land … Gasum. From the town southward, to the summit of the sand hill, is about two miles, over a very hilly unfertile soil, …