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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… points it is partly overlaid with glacial gravels. The hill-fort called Wandlebury stands above a slope at the … The main peasant crop, however, was probably barley. 153 Saffron was grown by 1544, perhaps still in 1650. 154 In the … nearly 8 in 1535, 232 and 40 in 1650, when the tithe of saffron was equally divided between rectory and vicarage. 233 …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… the south-east part of the parish a farmstead called Chain Hill Farm was built near the southern boundary between 1840 … south-east corner between 1879 and 1899. 47 Most of Chain Hill Farm has been demolished; Cowdown Farm is the site of …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… pleasant and dry, being situated on the side of a hill, from the knoll of which it continues to the bottom of … interspersed among them, which stand pleasantly on the hill, having a fine view over the Weald southward, The parish … the Presbyterians. At the entrance of the village, on the hill, at a small distance from the high road, on the east …
A History of the County of Worcester
… and two years later he was attainted and executed on Tower Hill for his attempt to place on the throne Lady Jane Grey, … in 1817, but the advowson had passed before 1822 to Joseph Hill. 109 He was succeeded by the Rev. Thomas Hill, who sold the advowson about 1861 to J. Ford Sevier. 110 …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Brother. This William Staunton went with the King to Edge-Hill Fight, and afterwards was a Colonel for him in the …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… within it the steep wooded eastern slopes of Stoner Hill and Wheatham Hill. The parish is watered by a small stream which rises not … Marsh, and a second stream rising at the foot of Wheatham Hill follows the north and east boundaries of the parish, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… joined at their east and west ends respectively by Paine's Hill (or Paine Street) and Water Lane; a narrow footpath, … housing led to the development of South Street. Paine's Hill, possibly named after John Paine, butcher, auctioneer, … c. 80 m. east of the junction of South Street and Paine's Hill, and dated CH 1836, the house is an asymmetrical …
A History of the County of Oxford
… estuarine gravel, Chipping Norton limestone, and Sharps Hill beds. All three settlements in the parish were … some inclosure, too, in Middle and Westcott Barton: Barn Hill, north of the Enstone road, was inclosed before 1690, … in Westcott Barton, including Horse Hay farm (76 a.), Down Hill or the rectory farm (205 a.), and Manor farm (112 a.). …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… and passes along the east side of the Foxcovert up Anger Hill to cross the road which connects all the Giddings, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 22 To the north Yarnbury castle is a large circular hill fort constructed c. 650 x c. 400 B.C. and extended all … times. 23 To the south-east East castle is a much smaller hill fort or enclosure possibly of the Iron Age, 24 and to … and by the late 18th century, when it was held within the hill fort on 5 October, buildings had been erected for it. It …