Search
Magna Britannia
… brought it to Ashleigh. It was afterwards successively in Hill and Copleston. The Coplestons possessed it for several … And smoothed his passage to eternal rest." Dorothy Hill, in 1755, gave 20 l., half of which being lost, it …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… to the north-east of Winchester, at the foot of St. Giles Hill, seeming to be locally part of Winchester. The village …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… extremity of the parish at the foot of a wooded hill on the main road from Basingstoke to Alton. Hackwood …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… c. 970 its eastern limit had been established at Hackpen Hill and it extended westwards to Stanmore on the high ground … 168 m. Much of the land in the parish is flat but Hackpen Hill and the downland east of it reach heights above 259 m. … outcrops over the whole parish; on the ridge of Hackpen Hill it is covered by clay-with-flints. 7 Little evidence of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… boundary of which is marked by the Ridge Way on Hackpen Hill. It extends 5 km. westwards and at its widest point near … 2 km. from north to south. The steep slopes of Hackpen Hill, known as Monkton Down, rise to 254 m. in the south-east … boundary the land rises gradually to 176 m. and Windmill Hill in the south-west corner of the parish is above 183 m. …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… to 135 m. west of that, and to 129 m. on Oatlands Hill, formerly Short, Slourt, or Stourt Hill, 8 in the south-east. From the Middle Ages the slopes of … reserve from 1980. 10 Between 1941 and 1946 Oatlands Hill was the site of a military airfield. 11 The AmesburyMere …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Parishes Wishou, or Wisoe WISHOU, or WISOE. Probably an Hill of Plants, or Custom Hill. In this Place before the Normanscame, Estan, Elsi, and …
A History of the County of Surrey
… is on the patch of Bagshot Sand which makes St. George's Hill and Cobham Common. There is no village of Wisley; merely …