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A History of the County of Durham
… the family. The Exchequer land called WINDY-HILLS (Windy hill, Wyndy hill, Windy side, xv cent., Wynoghills, xvi cent.) was in the …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… open and uninclosed, the soil a dry chalk, with frequent hill and dale interspersed throughout it. At Sowell hill, in the northern part of the parish, the land is … estate was valued at 203l. 6s. 8d. In the year 1777, the rack rent of this estate was 450l. In 1790, it was 630l. per …
A History of the County of Worcester
… south-west, on the other side of the road, is Crookbarrow Hill, a very large elliptical mound with artificial top; its … manor-house, now a farm, stands under Crookbarrow Hill to the east of the main road. It is a late 17th-century … 18 Where the London and Alcester roads join at Red Hill in the north-eastern corner of the parish was the spot …
A History of the County of Hertford
… Smallford and Sleap lie some three miles to the east. Hill End near to Smallford has a growing population on …
Magna Britannia
… the small-pox. There was formerly a chapel on a little hill at the mouth of Bude harbour, dedicated to the Holy …
A History of the County of Hertford
… immediately outside the borough limits, at the top of the hill known as St. Stephen's Hill, where the road to Watford crosses Watling Street. The … on a wood called Job's Wood forming part of the Serge Hill estate (see under Solly's charity below), and the …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… PARISH lies for the most part of it on the rise of the hill from the river Stour, that part of it next to Canterbury … years ago, adjoining to which on the further rise of the hill, are the gardens, park, and mansion of Hales-place, from … round it. Here the soil becomes a stiff clay, and as the hill rises higher still more so, where the land is very poor …
Magna Britannia
… of which a field adjoining the church-yard, called Castle-hill, exhibiting the traces of extensive buildings, is … from whom it passed, by a female heir, to the family of Hill. John Hill, Esq., about the year 1770, bequeathed this estate to a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to the east and Cowley to the south extended up Headington Hill as far as Pullen's Lane and followed the line of Gipsy … to a height of 300 ft. on the gravel uplands of Headington Hill. The eastern approaches to Oxford converged in the main … for Oxford buildings. The steep gradient of Headington Hill, the difficult subsoil of the valley and its liability …
A History of the County of Somerset
… and beyond the river rises steeply north-west to Cleeve Hill, the site of Daw's Castle. 9 The cliffs, largely of blue … as a holiday village. Earthworks surviving on Cleeve Hill, near the boundary of Old Cleeve parish and known as … a leat fed by the Doniford stream, adjoining fields called Rack meadow, 594 included a miller's house, in 1979 …