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A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… occupies, as the name implies, the summit of an elevated hill, at the eastern base of which passes the Brecknock … a portion of it; within its limits are also the Molvrey hill, and the village of Velindre. Dlhaidd is the name of the … The name of this place, signifying literally the head of a hill or promontory, is derived from its situation at the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… The church is an ancient structure, on the slope of a hill overlooking the Wye. Penbiddle PENBIDDLE, a hamlet, in … Charles I. The township is large, stretching along Pendle Hill, which rises 1803 feet above the level of the sea and …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… derived from a British or Gaelic word signifying "Cuckoo's hill;" and as several places in the neighbourhood also … woodland and plantations, 1600 meadow, and the remainder hill pasture, moorland, moss, and waste. The surface rises to … burn, the Chanlock burn, the Homer burn, and the Druid Hill burn, all of which have their respective glens; and in …
A History of the County of Stafford
… of the hamlets of Wolgarston, Preston, Bitham, Lyne Hill, and Moor Hall within Penkridge manor and of the manor … manor, common land within the deanery manor, Lyne Hill Green, common land in Otherton and Pillaton and common …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Whiston, Bickford, Congreve, Mitton, Pillaton, Lyne Hill, and Otherton and the village of Gailey. It is crossed … a road which has now largely disappeared led from Lyne Hill to Hatherton, running south of Pillaton Hall. 48 The old … of a beacon near Congreve, probably situated on Beacon Hill a mile and a half south-west of the town of Penkridge, …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… now standing in the upper part of the Deer Park, on the hill above the church. It is covered with zigzag and … centuries since, occupies a situation on the summit of a hill, about half a mile from that of the more ancient … every fourth Sunday, among the poorest inhabitants. On a hill called the Gaer are some remains of an ancient British …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is evidently of British origin, and, signifying "the red hill or summit," has reference either to the nature of the … of William Strickland, Bishop of Carlisle. On Beacon Hill, so called from having been anciently crowned with a … the steep streets of the town; and another to avoid the hill called Antron, adjoining the town on the Helston road. …
A History of the County of Somerset
… leading to a detached area beside Leigh common at Sunny Hill. That area, which then included 2 houses and 9 persons, …
Survey of London
… at Nos 48 and 76, was designed in-house and built by J. M. Hill & Sons Ltd, incorporating a pre-cast concrete canopy … engineering work on the canal, passing under Islington Hill and the New River. Designed by the canal's engineer …
Old and New London
… to claim the toll of all gravel carried up Highgate Hill. Their thirty pioneers, with spades and pickaxes, were … and goats on Fridays. (Timbs.) At a large house on Hermes Hill, afterwards (in 1811) occupied by "Sinner-saved … who had been a pupil of Boerhaave. He called this hill "Hermes," from Hermes Trismegistus, the fabled Egyptian …