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The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… westward from Trottesclive, on the summit of the chalk hill, on a stony soil, as its name implies, Stane signifying … of Sir Roger Twisden, bart. an estate on the summit of the hill, on the eastern side of this parish, built A SEAT for …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… the boundaries were drawn across Wansdyke to enclose Thorn Hill and in the south were marked by tributary streams of the … George, earl of Pembroke. 46 It was subsequently leased at rack-rent. A substantial freehold of 2 hides was held of the … In 1780 a small farm was converted to an annual tenancy at rack-rent. 97 Medium- and small-scale farms were already in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… bounded to the east by Waterperry, to the south by Forest Hill with Shotover, to the west and northwest by Beckley and … 2,700 acres by the transfer of Minchincourt Farm to Forest Hill with Shotover. 3 Geographically the parish falls into … Brook. The principal roads are three: IslipForest Hill, crossing the parish from north-west to south-east, and …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Plummer. W.R.O. 1621/29; inf. from Forestry Com., Postern Hill, Marlborough. W.R.O. 490/1529, ff. 4852V.; for Draycot, … 490/1529, f. 48 and v. Inf. from Forestry Com., Postern Hill, Marlborough. Wilts. Inq. p.m. 132777 (Index Libr.), …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… road from Tewkesbury to Stow-on-the-Wold, going up Stanway Hill, 1 and as the ancient route from Droitwich to … century the part of the village on the main road, known as Hill Stanway, 15 extended in a scattered way to the point … beast-pastures at Hornsleasow, sheep-pasture on Taddington Hill, and beast-pasture on Lidcombe Hill. 103 The arable …
A History of the County of Northampton
… 1935 became part of Raunds. The village stands on a slight hill overlooking the Nene, about a mile and a half from …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… the park. 5 There was a small camp by Scots' Dike at Sow Hill near Caldwell. 6 Objects of the early Iron Age have been … Naman's Leazes, Ucker flat, Foxberry, Greystone, Saw Hill, Cote Hill. There are Wesleyan and United Methodist chapels at …
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 … visible in the 1720s. 9 A tumulus survives at Wormwood Hill, formerly Wyrmelawe, 'the dragon's barrow', south-east … the Hills road, replacing an older green way to the hill, was laid out running north-east from Bury Farm towards …
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 … moiety, seven held by lease, three by copy, and one at rack rent, then included 308 a. of arable and rights 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 …